Sunday Ratings: The NFL Rules; Sitcom ‘Pivoting’ Debut Left at the Starting Gate on Fox

SUNDAY, JANUARY 9, 2022
Fast Affiliate Ratings

Total Viewers: 
NBC: 12.90 million, CBS: 7.81, Fox: 5.30, ABC: 3.53, CW: 187,000

Adults 18-49:
NBC: 3.5 rating/22 share, Fox: 1.3/ 8, CBS: 1.0/ 6, ABC: 0.5/ 3, CW: 0.0/ 0

As usual, The NFL ruled. And, of course, the results for any live sporting events are only approximate. That said, the Las Vegas Raiders’ 35 to 32 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” was the top draw, with an estimated 15.0 million viewers and a 4.1 rating/26 share in adults 18-49 for the primetime portion. 

On CBS, there was a half-hour NFL primetime overrun at 13.44 million (#1) and a 2.6/16 in the demo at 7 p.m. And a one-hour NFL overrun on Fox (Viewers: #2, 11.76 million; A18-49: #1, 2.8/17 from 7-8 p.m.) gave the sophomore season premiere of lead-out “Call Me Kat” a boost. The Mayim Bialik sitcom returned with 3.73 million viewers (#4) and a 0.9/ 5 in adults (#3) in the Sunday 8 p.m. half hour. But the series premiere of Fox sitcom “Pivoting” sunk to 1.95 million viewers (#4) and a 0.5/ 3 in the demo (#4) at 8:30 p.m.

Capping off the night on Fox was animated comedies “Bob’s Burgers” (Viewers: #4, 1.33 million; A18-49: #3t, 0.5/ 3 at 9 p.m.) and “Family Guy” (Viewers: #4, 1.28 million; A18-49: #4, 0.4/ 3 at 9:30 p.m.). The observation: Maybe it is time for Fox to stop introducing new animated series.

Airing out of the aforementioned half-hour football overrun on the East Coast, individual program results for CBS are only approximate as follows:

CBS/Sunday
7:30 p.m. “60 Minutes”
Viewers: 9.88 million (#2), A18-49: 0.9/ 5 (#2)

8:30 p.m. “The Equalizer”
Viewers: 7.33 million (#2), A18-49: 0.7/ 4 (#2)

9:30 p.m. “NCIS: Los Angeles”
Viewers: 5.23 million (#2), A18-49: 0.5/ 3 (#2)

10:30 p.m. “S.W.A.T.” (half-hour average only)
Viewers: 1.28 million (#4), A18-49: 0.4/ 3 (#4)

ABC, meanwhile, could not compete as follows:

ABC/Sunday
7:00 p.m. “America’s Funniest Home Videos”
Viewers: 4.47 million (#4), A18-49: 0.4/ 3 (#4)

8:00 p.m. “Celebrity Wheel of Fortune”
Viewers: 4.42 million (#3), A18-49: 0.6/ 3 (#4)

9:o0 p.m. “Supermarket Sweep”
Viewers: 2.47 million (#3), A18-49: 0.5/ 3 (#3)

10:00 p.m. “The Rookie”
Viewers: 2.77 million (#3), A18-49: 0.4/ 3 (#3)

And The CW featured reality competition “Legends of the Hidden Temple” (Viewers: #5, 1.93 million; A18-49: 0.0/ 0 at 8 p.m.) into a repeat of “Lois & Clark” at 9 p.m.

Source: Nielsen Media Research