Weekly Broadcast Finals: NFL Primetime Football Up Huge Year-to-Year (Week 9)

NBC's 'Sunday Night Football' dominated a slow Thanksgiving week in the Nielsen ratings. The game averaged a massive 6.59 A18-49 rating with 21.73 million total viewers, up 11% in the demo from last year's comparable game (5.95 rating), and up 15% among total viewers (18.95 million). FOX's coverage of Thanksgiving 'Thursday Night Football' (6.11, 20.5 million) saw even better gains, up 21% in both the demo (5.07 rating), and viewership (16.91 million) from last year.

The TV Ratings Guide Weekly: Week Ending 9/13

         

The TV Ratings Guide Weekly! A weekly feature including the ratings of all the programs aired by

 broadcast networks NBC, FOX, ABC, CBS, and The CW. In addition, the top ten of cable and weekly rankings of six broadcast networks. All ratings are the Live+SD Adults 18-49 and Total Viewer numbers provided by Nielsen.

Last week's post can be found here.

Broadcast Networks:

Rank	Network	A18-49 Rating	Total Viewers (in millions)	Total Viewers Ranking
1	NBC	3.7	11.285	1
2	CBS	1.2	6.025	2
3	ABC	1.1	4.278	3
4	Univision	0.8	2.361	4
5	FOX	0.7	2.133	5
6	The CW	0.3	1.053	6

    

NBC:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	NFL Football-09/10	10.3	1	27.40	1
2	Sunday Night Football-09/13	10.1	2	26.77	2
3	America’s Got Talent-09/08	2.1	7	10.53	4
4	America’s Got Talent-09/09	1.8	9	9.46	6
5	American Ninja Warrior-09/07	1.7	10	6.20	13
6	Hollywood Game Night-09/08	1.2	16	4.63	23
7	Dateline-09/11	1.1	18	5.50	16
8	Last Comic Standing-09/09	1.1	19	4.38	28
9	The Carmichael Show-09/09	1.0	22	4.60	24
10	Running Wild with Bear Grylls-09/07	1.0	27	2.83	45
11	The Carmichael Show-09/09	0.9	31	3.80	38
12	American Ninja Warrior-R-09/12	0.7	41T	2.05	57
13	Running Wild with Bear Grylls-R-09/12	0.3	73T	1.24	70

FOX:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Masterchef-09/09	1.5	12	4.83	20
2	Home Free-09/09	1.1	17	3.83	37
3	Bob’s Burgers-R-09/13	1.0	25	2.47	50
4	The Simpsons-R-09/13	1.0	24	2.32	52
5	Bob’s Burgers-R-09/13	0.9	34	2.07	56
6	Family Guy-R-09/13	0.8	39	1.60	63
7	So You Think You Can Dance-09/07	0.7	41T	2.64	48
8	Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?-09/08	0.7	41T	2.53	49
9	Brooklyn Nine-Nine-R-09/13	0.6	51T	1.48	65
10	Brooklyn Nine-Nine-R-09/08	0.6	51T	1.39	68
11	Bones-R-09/10	0.5	57T	2.19	53
12	Boom!-09/10	0.5	57T	1.85	60
13	The Last Man on Earth-R-09/13	0.5	57T	1.20	71
14	Bob’s Burgers-R-09/13	0.5	57T	1.16	73
15	The Last Man on Earth-R-09/08	0.4	66T	1.08	75
16	Bullseye-R-09/12	0.3	73T	1.03	77
17	Home Free-R-09/12	0.2	78T	1.04	76
18	Gotham-R-09/11	0.2	78T	0.69	79

ABC:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	Saturday Night Football-09/12	2.5	4	7.90	8
2	2015 Miss America Competition-09/13	1.5	13	7.10	9
3	Bachelor In Paradise-09/07	1.5	14	4.82	21
4	Bachelor In Paradise: After Paradise-09/07	1.1	20	3.95	34
5	Shark Tank-R-09/13	1.0	23	4.14	30
6	Modern Family-R-09/09	1.0	29	3.45	41
7	Shark Tank-R-09/10	0.9	32	4.04	33
8	20/20-09/11	0.9	33	3.74	39
9	Shark Tank-R-09/07	0.9	35	4.10	32
10	Shark Tank-R-09/08	0.8	36	3.26	43
11	Shark Tank-R-09/09	0.8	37	3.64	40
12	black-ish-R-09/09	0.8	38	2.73	46
13	America’s Funniest Home Videos-R-09/13	0.7	41T	4.53	25
14	Shark Tank-R-09/11	0.7	41T	2.73	47
15	Extreme Weight Loss-09/08	0.6	51T	2.09	55
16	Scandal-R-09/10	0.5	57T	2.42	51
17	Nashville-R-09/09	0.5	57T	1.98	59
18	How to Get Away With Murder-R-09/10	0.4	66T	2.12	54
19	Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.-R-09/08	0.4	66T	1.67	61

CBS:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	60 Minutes-R-09/13	2.7	3	11.46	3
2	Big Brother-09/13	2.3	5	7.02	10
3	Big Brother-09/09	2.1	6	6.56	11
4	Big Brother-09/10	2.0	8	6.08	14
5	The Big Bang Theory-R-09/10	1.6	11	9.67	5
6	The Big Bang Theory-R-09/07	1.3	15	6.42	12
7	Mom-R-09/10	1.1	21	5.35	18
8	CBS Fall Preview-09/07	1.0	26	4.94	19
9	Zoo-09/08	1.0	28	5.73	15
10	NCIS-R-09/08	1.0	30	8.42	7
11	Under the Dome-09/10	0.8	40	4.23	29
12	NCIS: Los Angeles-R-09/07	0.7	41T	5.37	17
13	48 Hours-09/12	0.7	41T	4.46	27
14	Extant-09/09	0.7	41T	4.51	26
15	Scorpion-R-09/07	0.7	41T	4.71	22
16	CSI: Cyber-R-09/13	0.6	51T	3.27	42
17	Madam Secretary-R-09/13	0.6	51T	3.18	44
18	NCIS: Los Angeles-R-09/12	0.5	57T	4.13	31
19	NCIS-R-09/12	0.5	57T	3.94	35
20	Blue Bloods-R-09/11	0.5	57T	2.02	58
21	Hawaii Five-0-R-09/11	0.4	66T	3.90	36

CW:

Rank	Program	A18-49 Rating	Overall A18-49 Rank	Total Viewers (in millions)	Overall Viewer Rank
1	America’s Next Top Model-09/09	0.6	51T	1.40	67
2	Penn & Teller: Fool Us-R-09/11	0.4	66T	1.50	64
3	Penn & Teller: Fool Us-R-09/07	0.4	66T	1.41	66
4	The Flash-R-09/08	0.4	66T	1.15	74
5	Whose Line Is It Anyway-R-09/07	0.3	73T	1.18	72
6	Masters of Illusion-09/11	0.3	73T	1.64	62
7	Whose Line Is It Anyway-R-09/11	0.3	73T	1.32	69
8	iZombie-R-09/08	0.2	78T	0.68	80
9	A Wicked Offer-09/09	0.2	78T	0.68	81
10	Beauty and the Beast-09/10	0.2	78T	0.76	78
11	Significant Mother-R-09/07	0.2	78T	0.65	82
12	Arrow-R-09/10	0.1	84	0.60	83

Top Ten Cable Shows:

Rank Program A18-49 Rating Total Viewers (in millions) Network 1 College Football-09/07 3.8 10.59 ESPN 2 Fear the Walking Dead-09/13 3.6 7.19 AMC 3 WWE Entertainment-09/07 (9 PM) 1.3 3.56 USA 4 College Football-09/12 1.3 4.13 ESPN 5 WWE Entertainment-09/07 (8 PM) 1.3 3.57 USA 6 Love & Hip Hop Hollywood-09/07 1.3 2.40 VH1 7 WWE Entertainment-09/07 (10 PM) 1.2 3.02 USA 8 Sportscenter-09/12 (12 AM) 1.2 2.61 ESPN 9 Family Guy-R-09/10 (11:30 PM) 1.1 1.97 Adult Swim 10 Big Bang Theory-R-09/09 1.1 2.64 TBS

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Sources: TVbytheNumbers, Spotted Ratings, TV Media Insights.