Sunday Ratings: New Orleans Saints’ Victory Over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on the NFL Ignites NBC

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2021
Fast Affiliate Ratings

Total Viewers: 
NBC: 12.26 million, Fox: 6.13, CBS: 4.07, ABC: 3.18, CW: 193,000

Adults 18-49:
NBC: 3.1 rating/20 share, Fox: 1.6/10, CBS: 0.4/ 3, ABC: 0.3/ 2, CW: 0.0/ 0

NBC, of course, scored an easy victory with the New Orleans’ Saints 9 to 0 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at an estimated 14.57 million viewers and a 3.7 rating/25 share in adults 18-49, based on these fast affiliate ratings.

On CBS, TV movie “Christmas Takes Flight” did not deck the halls with much of an audience with just 3.31 million viewers (#3) and a 0.4/ 2 in adults 18-49 (#3t) in the Sunday 8-10 p.m. ET block. It led out of granddaddy “60 Minutes” (Viewers: #2, 7.93 million; A18-49: #3, 0.7/ 5 at 7 p.m.) and into a repeat a repeat of “FBI: International” at 10 p.m. ABC aired its annual telecast of classic 1965 theatrical “The Sound of Music.” See network averages above. The CW plummeted to its lowest-rated Sunday night to-date care of competition series “The Legends of the Hidden Temple”(Viewers: #5, 238,000; A18-49: #5, 0.0/ 0 at 8 p.m. and a repeat of special “Black Pack: We Three Kings.” And Fox fared as follows following the estimated 14.06 million viewers and a 3.4/23 in adults 18-49 as follows:

Fox/Sunday

8:00 p.m. “The Simpsons”
Viewers: 3.80 million (#3); A18-49: 1.1/ 7 (#2)

8:30 p.m. “The Great North”
Viewers: 1.86 million (#4); A18-49: 0.6/ 4 (#2)

8:00 p.m. “Bob’s Burgers”
Viewers: 1.53 million (#4); A18-49: 0.5/ 4 (#2)

8:00 p.m. “Family Guy”
Viewers: 1.45 million (#4); A18-49: 0.5/ 3 (#2)

Source: Nielsen Media Research