Football won the night for
On NBC, the contest between the
Still, if the numbers hold, it looks like NBC won in the key 18-to-49 demo, with a rating of 4.9, for which a ratings point equals about 1.3-million viewers. That's down about 15% from the early numbers for last week's Sunday night game on NBC.
The 49ers won 34-3, the most one-sided victory for a
On CBS, there was much more of a nail-biter that ran into prime time. Giving CBS the major assist was the high-scoring matchup between
With the QB contest, which resulted in a 51-48 victory for Denver, CBS had more than 29-million viewers in the 7-7:30 p.m. half-hour, to give an idea.
The football overrun gave CBS a big boost in prime-time viewership, to make it the most-watched major network Sunday night.
The
CBS also carried the game between the
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