Prime Time Preliminary Sunday Ratings

NBC's "Sunday Night Football" led Sunday night among all key demos, according to preliminary Nielsen Media Research numbers. Sunday night's matchup between the Carolina Panthers and the New York Giants was down 35% from last week's game's final ratings, but ahead 30% over last year. An NFL lead-in helped Fox take second place for the night, followed by CBS in third, ABC in fourth and The CW in fifth.

	7	7:30	8	8:30	9	9:30	10	10:30
1.9 / 5	America's Funniest Home Videos 2.1 / 6 7.5 mil		Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 2.0 / 5 6.8 mil		Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 2.1 / 5 6.5 mil		Desperate Housewives 1.6 / 4 4.9 mil
2.0 / 5	60 Minutes 2.2 / 6 13.1 mil		Million Dollar Password 1.7 / 5 9.5 mil		Cold Case 2.2 / 5 11.9 mil		The Unit 1.9 /5 8.2 mil
3.0 / 8	NFL Overrun 5.5 / 16 15.1 mil	The OT 3.2 / 9 7.9 mil	The Simpsons 2.8 / 8 6.5 mil	King of the Hill 2.1 / 5 5.2 mil	Family Guy 2.5 / 6 5.9 mil	American Dad 2.0 / 5 4.7 mil	No Programming
4.8 / 13	Football Night in America 2.0 / 6 15.1 mil	Football Night in America 2.7 / 8 7.9 mil	Football Night in America 4.5 / 12 6.5 mil	NFL Football: Panthers vs. Giants 5.8 / 15 16.6 mil
0.4 / 1	Jericho 0.3 / 1 0.9 mil		Movie: Three Amigos 0.4 / 1 1.3 mil				No Programming

Source: Nielsen Media Research

*Ratings are specified in the 18-to 49-year-old demographic and viewership in P2+.

A note about ratings: Ratings are expressed as percentages of Nielsen's estimated 114.5 million U.S. television households. The first number, the rating, is a percentage of households tuned into a specific program at a specific time.

The second number, the share, is a percentage of households with televisions in use tuned into that same program. For example, if a show obtains a 10.2/16, this means that 10.2% of all U.S. households tuned into the program at some point during the broadcast. Meanwhile, 16% of all households watching television during the time period viewed the program at some point. Ratings are broken down further by demographic, as networks sell advertising time based on the makeup of the audience.