With a tight, exciting NFC Championship Game on Sunday, Fox easily won primetime outright.
Another benefactor of the close game, in which the Seattle Seahawks punched their ticket to Feb. 2′s Super Bowl, was Fox’s Season 2 premiere of “The Following.” With the coveted lead-in, the Kevin Bacon thriller was up 38 percent from last season’s debut, despite an 18-minute telecast delay.
“The Following” earned a 4.4 rating — its highest ever — in the key 18-49 demographic.
According to the very preliminary overnight ratings numbers, the NFC Championship Game was up 19 percent from last year. Those numbers are subject to change when time-adjusted fast nationals come in for the NFL game.
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