UPDATED: NFL football was a major factor in primetime last night as it handed NBC a nightly ratings win, secured Fox’s second place via an overrun and wrecked havoc in CBS’ primetime lineup because of local NFL overruns in 10% of the country, including top markets like New York and Philadelphia. ABC, the only network…

With NBC’s Sunday Night Football ending its season last week and Fox getting a massive NFL Wild Card runover, Fox posted its first Sunday ratings victory this season highlighted by the strong premiere of new animated comedy Bob’s Burgers. Bob’s Burgers (4.5/11 in adults 18-49) was sandwiched between The Simpsons…

Once again, 3 of the 4 major networks, NBC, CBS and Fox, got a ratings boost from football on Sunday, and once again NBC easily topped the night with Sunday Night Football. SNF is wrapping its red-hot season in style, with the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the St. Louis Rams drawing a 12.6 overnight rating/19…

It was a two-network race last night between NBC and CBS, both of them powered by football. NBC’s Sunday Night Football earned a 15.2 overnight rating to give NBC a 15th straight Sunday night victory. The Packers-Patriots game was up 27% from last year’s Week 15 game between the Vikings and the Panthers. CBS…

NBC’s hot football season continued with last night’s Eagles-Cowboys game. With a 16.5/25 overnight rating, the game delivered the best overnight rating in the five-year history of Sunday Night Football, tied with last fall’s Week 2 game between the Giants and the Cowboys that marked the debut of the new Dallas…

I’m thinking of dropping “race” from the headline of the Sunday ratings story until the end of the NFL season because there is not much of a race on the night that is dominated by football. NBC’s Sunday Night Football was the top-rated show on Sunday night for 13th straight week. The game between the Steelers and the…

Sunday Night Football sealed NBC’s 12th consecutive ratings victory on the night. The San Diego Chargers 36-14 blowout of the Indianapolis Colts drew a 13.0 overnight rating/19 share. That was down 18% from last week but up 3% from last fall’s Week 12 game, a Steelers-Ravens face-off that was decided in…

UPDATED: It has been a good fall for CBS and now a solid November sweep. The network is projected to win the sweep in adults 18-49 for the first time since 2005 (tied with Fox) and post its tenth consecutive November sweep victory in total viewers. For Fox, the solo sweep demo winner last November, this is the second…

Sunday Night Football‘s sizzling season continued with another highly-rated game last night. The Giants-Eagles face-off drew a 15.9 overnight rating/24 share, easily winning the night for NBC. That was up 31% from last year’s Week 11 game and the best for a November primetime game in 12 years. Airing against the game…

In the first ever showdown between NBC’s Sunday Night Football and Fox’s World Series coverage, the two networks are expected to split the honors, with NBC winning Sunday night in adults 18-49 and Fox, which also benefited from a football overrun, finishing No.1 in total viewers. In their direct face-off, SNF (11.8…

Football won the night for NBC with Sunday Night Football and helped CBS take the silver with an overrun, while ABC and Fox’s lineups were mostly down on the first Sunday of the season. Here is how the networks, none of which featured new additions to their Sunday schedules, fared: Desperate Housewives (4.2/10, 12.8…