Primetime Ratings: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Up as NBC Wins

NBC rolled to a prime title Sunday, riding Sunday Night Football to a 4.9 rating in viewers 18-49, and a 17 share. That topped the 2.0/7 that Fox put up.

Football Night in America grew 21% to 3.4 on NBC, and the game, Eagles versus Seahawks, went up a tenth of a point to 5.2.

Fox had The OT at 2.7, then The Simpsons at 1.7, up 55% from its last original airing two weeks ago. Ghosted grew 25% to 1.0, Family Guy went up 22% to 1.1 and Last Man on Earth was up a tenth at 0.8.

CBS did a 1.2/4, as 60 Minutes slipped 20% to 1.2. The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special did a 1.5, and an NCIS: Los Angeles repeat closed out prime.

ABC was at 0.9/3. An America’s Funniest Home Videos repeat led into a new episode, which was down 17% at 1.0. Shark Tank was down 10% to 0.9 and was followed by a repeated Shark Tank.

Univision was at 0.4/1 and Telemundo at 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.