NBC – Yes, NBC – Is Still No. 1 for the Season

Perpetually mocked network quietly leads its rivals

Six weeks into the fall TV season, NBC — that network that is still the regular butt of jokes about its low ratings — remains the top-rated network.

I know: NBC? Didn’t Defamer joke just Monday about how NBC had fallen to fifth place, “behind a network that airs the majority of its programming in a foreign language”? But that happened in February, Defamer. Now it’s November, and NBC leads every network in the key 18-49 demographic.

Also read: NBC’s Jennifer Salke on Why ‘The Blacklist’ Has ‘the Goods,’ and Keeping Faith in Michael J. Fox

People who think NBC has no hits tend to forget it has “Sunday Night Football,” the biggest show on television.

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