Top 100 Primetime Cable: December 12 - 18, 2016

The big winners on this week's cable ratings chart are the NFL, FOX News and The Hallmark Channel. Three NFL games make the 10, including a special Saturday night game, exclusively on the NFL Network. That game, Miami v Jets,  hauled in4.4 million viewers and a 1.3 rating in Adults 18-49. The Monday night game, on ESPN, was the #1 program, commanding 12.9 million viewers and a 4.2 demo rating.

The flood of Christmas movie on The Hallmark Channel, placed four movies in the top 25, including two in the top five. Saturday's movie, MY CHRISTMAS LOVE, brought in 4.6 million viewers, while the Sunday night movie, collected 4.2 million. The four Hallmark movies were the only scripted programs in the top 25.

FOX news continues to dominate the ratings, placing four shows in the top 10 and a total of ten shows in the top 25. All four THE O'REILLY FACTOR shows made the top 20, with three in the top seven.

In the reality programming genre, GOLD rush tops them all, ranking 8th on the week. ALASKA: THE LAST FRONTIER was next at #14, and CURSE OF OAK ISLAND right behind at #16.

Rank	Day	Show	Net	Time	P2*	A18-49
1	Mon	MNF: BAL v NE	ESPN	8:15 PM	12,921	4.2
2	Sat	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	4,594	0.6
3	Sat	TNF: MIA v NYJ	NFL	8:27 PM	4,385	1.3
4	Sun	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	4,172	0.7
5	Wed	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,704	0.3
6	Mon	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,591	0.3
7	Tue	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,588	0.4
8	Fri	Gold Rush	DISC	9:00 PM	3,346	1.0
9	Wed	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	3,039	0.3
10	Thur	TNF: LA v SEA	NFL	8:27 PM	2,957	1.2
11	Thur	Tucker Carlson Tonight	FOXN	8:00 PM	2,952	0.3
12	Tue	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,942	0.3
13	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	8:00 PM	2,929	1.0
14	Sun	Alaska: The Last Frontier	DISC	9:00 PM	2,847	0.6
15	Thur	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,845	0.3
16	Tue	Curse of Oak Island	HIST	9:00 PM	2,817	0.8
17	Fri	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	2,764	0.2
18	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	9:00 PM	2,713	0.9
19	Thur	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,701	0.3
20	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	10:00 PM	2,632	0.9
21	Sun	The Real Housewives: ATL	BRVO	8:00 PM	2,555	1.1
22	Mon	Love And Hip Hop	VH1	9:00 PM	2,546	1.3
23	Sat	Hallmark Movie	HALL	6:00 PM	2,544	0.4
24	Tue	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,417	0.2
25	Sat	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	2,396	0.4
26	Sat	Saturday Movie	FREE	9:00 PM	2,388	0.8
27	Mon	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,370	0.2
28	Tue	Fixer Upper	HGTV	9:00 PM	2,363	0.6
29	Tue	WWE Smackdown	USA	8:00 PM	2,361	0.7
30	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,351	0.8
31	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	2,347	0.8
32	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2,297	0.8
33	Mon	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,290	0.2
34	Mon	Love And Hip Hop	VH1	8:00 PM	2,286	1.2
35	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2,251	0.8
36	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	2,244	0.8
37	Wed	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,242	0.2
38	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	2,178	0.8
39	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,167	0.7
40	Fri	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,160	0.2
41	Thur	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	2,127	0.4
42	Thur	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	2,105	0.4
43	Sat	Justice w/Judge Jeannie	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,096	0.1
44	Mon	Street Outlaws	DISC	9:00 PM	2,094	0.9
45	Fri	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,073	0.3
46	Wed	VIKINGS	HIST	9:00 PM	2,054	0.6
47	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	2,030	0.7
48	Sat	Saturday Movie	FREE	6:50 PM	2,028	0.7
49	Wed	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	2,011	0.3
50	Fri	Tresure Quest	DISC	10:02 PM	1,988	0.6
51	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1,971	0.6
52	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1,949	0.7
53	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1,931	0.6
54	Sat	TNF PRE-KICK	NFL	8:00 PM	1,928	0.5
55	Fri	Big Screen Movie	FREE	7:35 PM	1,906	0.7
56	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,906	0.7
57	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1,896	0.6
58	Sat	Big Picture MovieS	TNT	8:00 PM	1,885	0.7
59	Thur	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1,882	0.7
60	Wed	Brothers Take New Orleans	HGTV	9:00 PM	1,881	0.4
61	Mon	MNF Countdown	ESPN	6:00 PM	1,868	0.7
62	Sun	Holiday Baking Champ	FOOD	9:00 PM	1,861	0.5
63	Sun	The Librarians	TNT	8:00 PM	1,857	0.5
64	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1,842	0.6
65	Fri	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	1,831	0.4
66	Wed	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	1,816	0.3
67	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1,806	0.6
68	Thur	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1,796	0.7
69	Thur	TNF Pre-Kick	NFL	8:18 PM	1,790	0.7
70	Thur	Curse of Oak Island	HIST	8:52 PM	1,765	0.4
71	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1,764	0.5
72	Sat	Watters World	FOXN	8:00 PM	1,755	0.1
73	Fri	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	1,753	0.4
74	Thur	Project Runway (SF)	LIFE	9:00 PM	1,733	0.4
75	Tue	MOONSHINERS	DISC	9:00 PM	1,728	0.6
76	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:00 PM	1,727	0.6
77	Sat	Big Picture Movie	TNT	10:45 PM	1,720	0.7
78	Sun	Shameless	SHO	9:02 PM	1,716	0.6
79	Mon	Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	9:00 PM	1,706	0.2
80	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1,697	0.7
81	Tue	Big Screen Movie	FREE	9:00 PM	1,689	0.7
82	Wed	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,674	0.3
83	Tue	Big Screen Movie	FREE	7:00 PM	1,670	0.7
84	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1,670	0.5
85	Tue	Fixer Upper	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,661	0.5
86	Thur	Flip or Flop	HGTV	9:00 PM	1,647	0.5
87	Tue	FX Movie Prime	FX	8:00 PM	1,637	0.7
88	Thur	Big Screen Movie	FREE	7:00 PM	1,631	0.6
89	Mon	American Pickers	HIST	9:00 PM	1,629	0.3
90	Thur	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1,616	0.6
91	Sun	Edge of Alaska	DISC	10:01 PM	1,601	0.4
92	Tue	The Real Housewives: BH	BRVO	9:00 PM	1,600	0.6
93	Mon	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	1,586	0.3
94	Thur	NAN Movie	NAN	8:00 PM	1,582	0.4
95	Fri	Big Screen Movie	FREE	9:45 PM	1,580	0.6
96	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,553	0.5
97	Tue	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	1,551	0.3
98	Wed	American Dad	ADSW	10:30 PM	1,540	0.7
99	Mon	Big Screen Movie	FREE	9:00 PM	1,531	0.7
100	Tue	NBA Basketball: OKC v POR	ESPN	10:35 PM	1,530	0.7

* - Viewership (,000)