Football dominated the Nielsen ratings for the week after Thanksgiving, although good old Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show held their own. It was another week with CBS as the winner in Households and Fox in the big bucks 18-49 demo.
In HH CBS scored an average 5.6 rating and 9 share, with Fox at 5.1/8, NBC 4.6/7, ABC 4.0/6, Univision 1.7/3, CW 1.1/2, Ion 0.8/1, Telemundo 0.7/1, TeleFutura 0.3/1 and Azteca America and EstrellaTV 0.1/0.
For 18-49 Fox was at 3.0/8, NBC 2.3/6, CBS 2.2/6, ABC 1.8/5, Univision 1.4/4, Telemundo and CW 0.6/2, TeleFutura and Ion 0.3/1 and EstrellaTV and Azteca America 0.1/0.
Here are the week’s top 20 shows:
| The Nielsen Company Broadcast Ranking Report | ||||||
| Network primetime (Live + SD) week of 11/28/11 – 12/04/11 | ||||||
| Rank | Program | Network | HH Rating | HH Share | 2+ Audience (000) | |
| 1 | NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL | NBC | 11.5 | 18 | 18896 | |
| 2 | OT, THE | FOX | 11.4 | 18 | 19393 | |
| 3 | SUNDAY NIGHT NFL PRE-KICK | NBC | 8.9 | 14 | 14791 | |
| 4 | NCIS 9P-SPECIAL(S) | CBS | 8.2 | 12 | 13372 | |
| 5 | 60 MINUTES | CBS | 7.5 | 11 | 11879 | |
| 6 | BLUE BLOODS | CBS | 6.9 | 12 | 11052 | |
| 7 | CSI: MIAMI | CBS | 6.8 | 11 | 10429 | |
| 7 | FOOTBALL NT AMERICA PT 3 | NBC | 6.8 | 11 | 11214 | |
| 7 | RUDOLPH RED-NOSE REINDEER(S) | CBS | 6.8 | 10 | 12644 | |
| 10 | LAW AND ORDER:SVU | NBC | 6.7 | 11 | 9900 | |
| 11 | SURVIVOR: SOUTH PACIFIC | CBS | 6.6 | 10 | 11047 | |
| 12 | BIG BANG THEORY, THE | CBS | 6.5 | 10 | 10481 | |
| 12 | LAST MAN STANDING | ABC | 6.5 | 10 | 10316 | |
| 12 | VICTORIA’S SECRET FASHION(S) | CBS | 6.5 | 11 | 10392 | |
| 12 | X-FACTOR-WED | FOX | 6.5 | 10 | 11045 | |
| 16 | GOOD WIFE, THE | CBS | 6.4 | 9 | 9938 | |
| 17 | BODY OF PROOF | ABC | 6.3 | 10 | 9485 | |
| 17 | CSI: NY | CBS | 6.3 | 10 | 9757 | |
| 17 | HARRY’S LAW | NBC | 6.3 | 10 | 9875 | |
| 20 | TWO AND A HALF MEN | CBS | 6.1 | 9 | 9730 | |
| 20 | X-FACTOR-THU | FOX | 6.1 | 10 | 10340 | |
| Source: The Nielsen Company | ||||||
