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