Preliminary Ratings: Sunday 01/24/2016

All eyes were on FOX, Sunday night, as it carried the huge ratings grabber, the NFC Championship, and the long waited series event premiere of THE X-FILES.

The NFC Championship Game was a blow out, with the Panthers killing the Cardinals, 49-15. The ratings may have been bigger than the 40.7 million viewers and a 14.3 rating in Adults 18-49, had the game been as exciting and close as the AFC Championship game, earlier in the day. Last Years AFC Game, on CBS, drew over 42.1 million viewers and a 13.9 demo rating.

After the 20-25 post-game show, the much anticipated THE X-FILES event premiere did not disappoint. Starting at 10:30, the premiere collected a 5.1 rating in Adults 18-49 and a 13.5 million viewers. A good start to the six episode event, which continues tonight, Jan 25th.

Not much else worth mentioning on a night with encores on the other networks. Only GALAVANT was original and drew the second worse numbers on the night, just above the two hour encore of AGENT CARTER.

Preliminary L+SD Network Averages:

	Total viewers	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
ABC	2.40 million	0.3	0.5	0.7
CBS	7.40 million	0.7	1.1	1.7
CW	0.00 million	0.0	0.0	0.0
FOX	20.10 million	9.4	12.3	13.1
NBC	3.00 million	0.6	0.8	1.0

Time	Net	Program	Viewers*	A18-34	A18-49	A25-54
7:00	ABC	AFV [R]	4.40	0.6	0.8	1.1
8:00	ABC	Galavant	2.10	0.3	0.5	0.6
9:00	ABC	Agent Carter [R]	1.40	0.2	0.4	0.5
7:00	CBS	60 Minutes	10.10	1.4	2.0	2.6
8:00	CBS	60 Minutes	8.40	0.7	1.2	1.8
9:00	CBS	Madam Secretary [R]	5.20	0.4	0.7	1.1
10:00	CBS	NCIS [R]	5.90	0.4	0.8	1.1
7:00	FOX	NFC Championship: CAR vs ARZ	40.70	11.8	14.3	16.2
10:00	FOX	NFC Post Game	20.60	6.3	7.7	8.7
10:30	FOX	The X-Files (SP)	13.50	3.8	5.1	6.0
7:00	NBC	Dateline	3.60	0.4	0.6	0.9
8:00	NBC	Movie: Bridesmaids	2.70	0.7	0.9	1.1

* - in millions