Nielsen’s top-rated prime-time programs included four NFL games. The list was topped by NBC’s Sunday game. This included New Orleans’ surprising win over the Tampa Bay Bucs.
This week, winners were announced by NBC’s “The Voice”, CBS’ “Survivor” as well as Fox’s Fox’s (“The Masked Singer”) and all had viewers tuning in. The highest viewership was for “The Voice” with 7.3M viewers in the first part on Monday.
Nielsen reported that ABC’s Sunday night showing of “The Sound of Music”, a TV staple, attracted 3.3 million viewers on Sunday night.
Fox was the winner of prime time among broadcast networks with an average audience of 5.7 million viewers. NBC had 5.1 Million, CBS had 3.8 Million, ABC had 3.5million, ABC had 3.5million, Univision had 1.3million, Telemundo had 910,000, Ion Television had 1,000,000, and Telemundo had 910,000.
Fox News Channel was the winner of all cable networks. It averaged 2.2 million prime time viewers. ESPN had 1.89m, Hallmark had 1.48m, MSNBC had 1.5 million, Paramount had 1.07m.
ABC’s “World News Tonight”, which averaged 8.2 million viewers, won the evening news ratings race. NBC’s Nightly News had 7.5 million viewers, while CBS Evening News had 5.1 million.
The following 20 shows are most watched, ranked by their networks, and viewed the most during the week of December 13-19:
1. NFL Football: New Orleans at Tampa Bay NBC, 18.06 Million
2. NFL Football: Kansas City at L.A. Chargers on Fox, 17.86 Million
3. “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 12.17 million.
4. “The OT,” Fox, 11.18 million.
5. “NFL Pregame,” Fox, 9.26 million.
6. “Football Night in America Part 3”, NBC, 8.92 Million.
7. “FBI,” CBS, 8.31 million.
8. NFL Football: L.A. Rams at Arizona on ABC, 7.97 Million.
9. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 7.94 million.
10. NFL Football: L.A. Rams at Arizona on ESPN, 7.93 Million.
11. “Yellowstone,” Paramount, 7.74 million.
12. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 7.28 million.
13. NFL Football: New England, NFL Network, 7.26 Million.
14. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.98 million.
15. CBS, 6.86 Million.
16. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.61 million.
17. Fox, 5.08 Million.
18. “1883,” Paramount, 4.98 million.
19. “NFL Pregame,” ABC, 4.74 million.
20. “Football Night in America Part 2”, NBC, 4.73 Million.
