NFL and college football and sturdy drama franchises including the “Chicago” shows on NBC and the “NCIS” group on CBS were among the week’s ratings winners, according to The Associated Press citing Nielsen figures out Wednesday.
The second impeachment of now-former President Donald Trump drew viewers to news shows, but not in the numbers that tuned in the prior week to bear witness to rioting inside the U.S. Capitol and gave CNN get its biggest single-day audience ever.
CBS’ news magazine “60 Minutes,” which included reports on the Capitol attack and security measures for President Joe Biden’s inauguration, was the week’s top non-sports broadcast despite competition from a NFL divisional playoff game.
That contest, between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New Orleans Saints was the week’s No. 1 program. It helped make Fox the most-watched network with an average 9.1 million viewers, followed by NBC with 6.4 million. CBS had 4.1 million, ABC had 3.5 million, Univision had 1.3 million, Telemundo had 1 million and Ion Television had 940,000.
ESPN was the most-watched cable network in prime-time, averaging 3.2 million for the week. CNN had 3.1 million, MSNBC had 2.7 million and HGTV had 1.1 million.
For the week of Jan. 11-17, the 20 most-watched programs in prime time, their networks and viewership:
👉Top 20 Prime-Time TV Show (Total Audience):
1. NFC Playoff: Tampa Bay at New Orleans, Fox, 35.5 million.
2. NFL Playoff: Baltimore at Buffalo, NBC, 26.2 million.
3. College football championship: Ohio State at Alabama, ESPN, 18.5 million.
4. NFL Pregame, NBC, 18.3 million.
5. NFC Postgame, Fox, 18 million.
6. College football pregame, ESPN, 12.8 million.
7. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 10.57 million.
8. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune,” ABC. 7.8 million.
9. “Chicago Med,” NBC, 7.6 million.
10. “Chicago Fire,” NBC, 7.3 million.
11. “Chicago PD,” NBC, 6.6 million.
12. “Great North,” Fox, 6.1 million.
13. “NCIS: Los Angeles,” CBS, 5.6 million.
14. “Magnum P.I.,” CBS, 5.5 million.
15. “This Is Us,” NBC, 5.46 million.
16. “The Chase,” ABC, 5.45 million.
17. “NCIS,” CBS, 5.2 million.
18. “NCIS: New Orleans,” CBS, 5.1 million.
19. “MacGyver,” CBS, 5 million.
20. “The Price is Right,” CBS, 4.9 million.
ABC’s “World News Tonight” topped the evening news ratings contest, averaging 10.3 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 8.5 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 6.3 million.
Syndication: Beloved Jeopardy host Alex Trebek ended his more than 36-year run on a high note in the session ending Jan. 10, taking the game show to a 29% increase from the week before and a new season high 6.6 live-plus-same-day national Nielsen rating. Trebek taped his final programs just 10 days before he died on Nov. 8 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
Wheel of Fortune, which is often paired with Jeopardy, also hit its best ratings of the season, shooting up 18% to a 6.0.
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