Broncos Seahawks at Bears on NBC Sunday Night Football and Desperate Housewives on ABC.
Although the picture quality hasn't pleased everyone, NBC's Sunday Night Football features the defending Super bowl champion Steelers vs. the Chargers in a great AFC matchup.
The streak ended last year, when NBC's "Sunday Night Football" took Nielsen's top spot.
Despite the NFL's popularity NBC's "Sunday Night Football" was the most-watched show during the last TV season the NFL Network has struggled since its launch in 2003 to get carried by pay-TV distributors.
Consider that the most-watched series in prime time during the 2011-2012 TV season was Sunday Night Football on NBC, as Elliott noted.
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Though the broadcast network, and notably Gaspin, gained positive press and industry good will for returning to a schedule heavy on scripted fare from Hollywood heavyweights like JJ Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer this season, NBC continues to languish in the ratings basement (Sunday Night Football ratings aside).
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However, when NBC wanted to bring sports announcer Al Michaels to their Sunday night football games in 2006, Disney had an opportunity to bring home the wayward character.
More recently, though, NBC has bounced back with a new hit in "The Voice" and has a consistent ratings leader in "Sunday Night Football" during the fall and early winter.
NBC's biggest show as rivals point out is not an entertainment program, but "Sunday Night Football, " with last week's game up 23 percent, so that doesn't hurt either.
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