With nowhere else to turn to during a time of seemingly never-ending reruns during the Christmas-New Year’s Day time-frame, broadcast networks saw a mammoth drop in ratings as viewers traveled and spent time squabbling with family members. That is, a ratings drop for everything except for football.
19.04 million viewers watched NBC’s telecast of the Dallas-Washington Sunday Night Football game, easily becoming the top-rated show of the week. Still, CBS dominated the ratings and won all of the other top-ten positions sans NBC’s pre-game show, which averaged a 7.3 rating and a 12 share. Meanwhile, ABC landed in second place with a 5.9 rating and 10 share. Fox earned a 5.2/8 and last place NBC, despite the solid numbers and ratings from its NFL game and mini-series finale of The Sing Off, could not move past its 4.9/8.
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