Primetime Ratings Sunday: NBC on Top With Rams-Niners

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NBC squeaked out the win in Sunday primetime, Sunday Night Football leading to a 2.5 in viewers 18-49, per the Nielsen overnights, and a 14 share. Fox, with football leading into baseball, was just behind at 2.4/13. 

NBC had Football Night in America at a flat 1.5 and the game, Rams against Niners, at 2.8. Last week, Vikings-Seahawks got a 3.2. 

Fox had Buccaneers-Packers at 3.9 and Game 7 of the NLCS, Dodgers-Braves, at 1.8. 

Everyone else was playing for scraps. ABC got a 0.6/4 and CBS a 0.5/3. ABC had premieres across prime. The season starter for America’s Funniest Home Videos got a 0.5 and Supermarket Sweep, with Leslie Jones as host, a promising 1.0. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire got a 0.6 and Card Sharks a 0.4. 

CBS had 60 Minutes down 33% to 0.8 (it had an NFL lead in last Sunday) and 1986 movie Ferris Bueller’s Day Off at 0.5. 

Univision scored a 0.3/2 and Telemundo a 0.2/1. Univision had Aqui y Ahora up a tenth at 0.3 and movie No Manches Frida at 0.3.

Telemundo had the movie The Mummy at 0.2 and Rush Hour 3 at 0.2. 

The CW got a 0.1/0. Pandora got a flat 0.1 and Whose Line is it Anyway? reruns followed. 

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.