Two weekday football games were enough to lift Fox to victory in the weekly ratings race.
The network’s coverage of Tuesday’s game between Dallas and Baltimore, and Thursday’s New England-L.A. Rams matchup took up their entire prime-time schedules for the nights, reports The Associated Press citing Nielsen data.
CBS’ “60 Minutes” was the most-watched non-football program for the week. The venerable drama “NCIS” was the most popular entertainment program.
Fox averaged 7.3 million viewers in prime time for the week. NBC was second with 5.2 million viewers, CBS had 4.6 million, ABC had 3.8 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Telemundo had 1.01 million and Ion Television had 960,000.
Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.69 million viewers in prime time. ESPN had 2.22 million, MSNBC had 2.09 million, CNN had 1.77 million and Hallmark had 1.6 million.
➤The Top 20 Most-Watched Prime-Time Shows (Total Viewers):
1. NFL Football: Pittsburgh at Buffalo, NBC, 17.05 million.
2. NFL Football: New England at L.A. Rams, Fox, 13.64 million.
3. NFL Football: Dallas at Baltimore, Fox, 13.54 million.
4. “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 13.03 million.
5. “The OT,” Fox, 10.43 million.
6. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 9.13 million.
7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.1 million.
8. “NFL Pregame,” Fox, 9.07 million.
9. “NCIS,” CBS, 8.53 million.
11. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 6.95 million.
12. “FBI,” CBS, 6.71 million.
13. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.64 million.
14. NFL Football: Buffalo vs. San Francisco, ABC, 6.41 million.
15. “Blue Bloods,” CBS, 6.38 million.
16. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 6.04 million.
17. “Grey’s Anatomy,” ABC, 5.69 millon.
18. “Magnum, P.I., CBS, 5.685 million.
19. “Station 19,” ABC, 5.58 million.
20. “Bob Hearts Abishola,” CBS, 5.28 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” led the evening news ratings race with an average of 9.4 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.9 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.7 million.
Fox News averaged the most total viewers on all of cable television last week in prime time, and also moved back up to No. 1 in total viewers across the 24-hour day.
Week of Dec. 7 cable ranker Total Viewers
According to TV Newscheck: Entertainment magazines were themselves the big news in the session ending Dec. 6, scoring double-digit increases right across the board. Entertainment Tonight led the charge with a 14% surge to a 2.4 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating, tying corporate cousin Inside Edition at the top of the magazine rack.
Next in line, Access Hollywood, matched its season high, jumping 10% to a 1.1. TMZ added 14% to a 0.8, while Extra clocked the largest percentage increase in the top four, with a 17% spike to a 0.7 in households and a 33% leap in the key women 25-54 demo, equaling its best performance of the season.
The top talk shows for the week among women 25-54 were:
- Live with Kelly and Ryan (0.8, unchanged from the week before)
- Dr. Phil (0.7, unchanged)
- Ellen DeGeneres (0.6, unchanged)
- Kelly Clarkson (0.5, +25%), tied with Maury (0.5, +25%)
- Tamron Hall (0.4, +33%), tied with Wendy Williams (0.4, unchanged)
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