‘American Idol’ & ‘60 Minutes’ Lead Sunday Ratings; ‘Riverdale’ Matches Demo Low
deadline.comSunday marked was another winning night for CBS and ABC as the two dominated primetime with new episodes of 60 Minutes and American Idol, respectively.According to fast nationals, American Idol won the night’s highest rating and 60 Minutes, Sunday’s largest audience.
CBS’ news delivered a 0.5 rating in the 18-49 demo and 7.26 million viewers. 60 Minutes, which was CBS’ top program of the evening, however did not have much stiff competition airing among repeats across all other networks in the 7 p.m.
hour.At 8 p.m., things picked up with American Idol (0.7, 5.11M) rising in both counts from the previous week. Idol was ABC’s top title.
Keeping its lead-in from the preceding hour, a steady episode of The Equalizer (0.5, 6.76M) followed behind to easily best episodes of The Simpsons (0.3, 0.91M) and The Great North (0.2, 0.72M).
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