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Bah humbug: Fox�s �A Christmas Story Live!� just got blindsided by
NBC�s �Sunday Night Football� in early TV ratings. Oh, and every
other broadcast TV show beat it as well.

The latest live television musical managed a 2.8 overnight rating/5
share in the 56 metered-markets monitored by Nielsen. Compare that
with NBC�s �Sunday Night Football,� which posted a massive 12.3/21
last night. To be fair, that latter live telecast had the Dallas
Cowboys.

Plus, football is still football and no one expected �A Christmas
Story� to compete � it certainly could have done much better than it
did, however. ABC�s �Sound of Music� (no, not the live one from NBC
that started this whole trend) telecast posted a 3.0/5 on Sunday.
Even all of the CBS shows beat this �Christmas Story.�

Cue the Grinch music.

Last year�s hit �Grease: Live� hauled in a 7.4 overnight rating for
Fox, but that one was in January and it did not have pro pigskin to
contend with. Danny and Sandy�s budding romance brought in more than
12 million live viewers, and over 14 million when including three
days worth of catch-up tune-in.

NBC�s �The Wiz Live� in December 2015 drew a 7.9 in these very
preliminary returns. The Thursday special, which did have an NFL
game up against it, eventually tallied 11.5 million live total
viewers.

The following year, �Hairspray Live� landed a 5.9 rating from the 56
markets and just north of 9 million overall audience members. That
one aired on a Wednesday when Fox�s �Empire� was its chief
competition.

Sunday�s fast-national numbers, which are not time zone-adjusted,
will be out around 8 a.m. PT this morning. Final live viewership
totals are expected this afternoon.

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