Primetime Ratings: ‘SNF’ Is Up and NBC Wins

NBC rolled to a big win in Sunday prime, riding Sunday Night Football to a 4.3 rating in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 15 share. Second was Fox at 2.3/7.

Football Night in America did a flat 3.1 on NBC and the game, Patriots versus Broncos, a 5.0. The game was up 25%.

Fox had an NFL overrun, then The OT at 3.0. The Simpsons grew 46% to 1.9 and Ghosted went up 30% to 1.3, then Family Guy elevated 40% to 1.4 while Last Man on Earth went up 13% to 0.9.

CBS had a 0.9/3. 60 Minutes rated a 1.2 after last week’s NFL-boosted 2.4. Wisdom of the Crowd fell 27% to 0.8. NCIS: Los Angeles did a flat 0.9 and Madam Secretary a flat 0.6.

ABC was at 0.8/3. Toy Box grew 25% to 0.5 and America’s Funniest Home Videos grew 11% to 1.0. Shark Tank did a flat 0.9 in its first hour and was up 14% at 0.8 in its second hour.

Univision did a 0.5/2 and Telemundo a 0.3/1.

Michael Malone

Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.