‘The American Music Awards’ Drops by 28 Percent Year-to-Year

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Household Rating/Share
NBC: 9.3/15, CBS: 8.8/14, ABC: 5.0/ 8, Fox: 1.7/ 3

–Note: Comparisons to the year-ago evening are not available.

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Ratings Breakdown:
“The 2016 American Music Awards” lost noticeable steam, with a 5.4 rating/8 share in the household overnights last night down by 28 percent from the 7.5/12 on the year-ago evening. That 7.5 rating in the overnights translated into 11.01 million viewers and a 3.5 rating/11 share in adults 18-49, based on the Live + Same Day data.

Earlier in the evening on ABC was veteran “America’s Funniest Home Videos” at a 3.8/ 7 (#2) in the 7 p.m. hour.

Tops for the night was the Green Bay Packers at the Washington Redskins on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” at a 11.9/19 in the household overnights from 8:30-11:45 p.m.

Elsewhere, CBS got a significant lift for the evening with a 14.6/24 in the 7 p.m. half-hour for an NFL football overrun. That led into an 11.5/18 for granddaddy “60 Minutes” from 7:30-8:30 p.m., followed by “NCIS” (#2: 7.7/12 from 8:30-9:30 p.m.), “Madam Secretary” (#2: 6.4/10 from 9:30-10:30 p.m.) and the first half of “Elementary” (#2t: 4.7/ 8 at 10:30 p.m.). Individual program results for CBS are approximate due to the football overrun.

Fox, meanwhile, could not compete with its line-up of a repeat of “The Simpsons” (2.2/ 4), “Bob’s Burgers” (1.5/ 2), the regular installment of “The Simpsons” (1.8/ 3), “Son of Zorn” (1.8/ 3) and “The Last Man on Earth” (1.3/ 2). The network finished a distant fourth in each of the six half-hours.

What follows are the metered market household results by half-hour for Sunday, Nov. 20:

7:00 p.m.
ABC – “America’s Funniest Home Videos”: 3.5/ 6 (#2)
CBS – “NFL Overrun: 14.6/24 (#1)
NBC – “Football Night in America,” part one: 3.2/ 5 (#3)
Fox – “The Simpsons” (R): 2.2/ 4 (#4)

7:30 p.m.
ABC – “America’s Funniest Home Videos”: 4.0. 7 (#2t)
CBS – 60 Minutes: 12.1/19 (#1)
NBC – “Football Night in America,” part two: 4.0/ 7 (#2t)
Fox – “Bob’s Burgers”: 1.5/ 2 (#4)

8:00 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 5.9/ 9 (#3)
CBS – “60 Minutes”: 10.8/16 (#1)
NBC – “Football Night in America,” part three: 7.3/12 (#2)
Fox – “The Simpsons”: 1.8/ 3 (#4)

8:30 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 5.6/ 8 (#3)
CBS – “NCIS: Los Angeles”: 8.5/13 (#2)
NBC – Sunday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins): 14.8/22 (#1)
Fox – “Son of Zorn”: 1.5/ 2 (#4)

9:00 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 5.7/ 9 (#3)
CBS – “”NCIS: Los Angeles”: 6.9/10 (#2)
NBC – Sunday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins): 12.7/19 (#1)
Fox – “Family Guy”: 1.8/ 3 (#4)

9:30 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 5.4/ 8 (#3)
CBS – “Madam Secretary”: 6.7/10 (#2)
NBC – Sunday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins): 12.8/19 (#1)
Fox – “The Last Man on Earth”: 1.3/4 (#2)

10:00 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 5.2/ 8 (#3)
CBS – “Madam Secretary”: 6.0/10 (#2)
NBC – Sunday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins): 13.5/18 (#1)

10:30 p.m.
ABC – “2016 American Music Awards: 4.7/ 8 (#2t)
CBS – “Elementary”: 4.7/ 8 (#2t)
NBC – Sunday Night Football (Green Bay Packers at Washington Redskins): 11.8/20 (#1)

Source: Nielsen Media Research