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| Adults 18-49: rating/Share | 3.1/9 | 1.6/5 | 1.4/4 | 1.4/4 | 0.6/2 |
| Adults 18-34: Rating/Share | 2.7/9 | 1.0/3 | 0.8/3 | 1.0/3 | 0.6/2 |
| Total Viewers (million) | 8.227 | 8.593 | 6.240 | 4.447 | 1.576 |
With Sunday Night Football pushed to Tuesday night due to the weather, Fox easily won the night with adults 18-49 with Giants-Packers overrun and animation repeats. An original episode of Running Wilde was burned off at 9:30p and was Fox's lowest-rated program of the night.
60 Minutes plus a night of repeats was enough to land CBS in second place for the night with adults 18-49 and was tops with total viewers. NBC couldn't broadcast The Game but still went with 90 minutes of Football Night in America and emergency scheduling of 90 minutes worth of Minute To Win It repeats and a Law & Order: SVU repeat. For the night NBC tied with ABC which had its annual airing of The Sound of Music.
Broadcast primetime ratings for Sunday, December 26, 2010:
| Time | Net | Show | 18-49 Rating/Sh | Viewers (Millions) |
| 7:00 | FOX | Giants/Packers Runover | 6.4/19 | 19.11 |
| CBS | 60 Minutes | 1.9/6 | 11.78 | |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 1.2/4 | 4.13 | |
| ABC | Movie: The Sound of Music (R) | 0.9/3 | 4.52 | |
| 7:30 | FOX | The OT | 3.8/11 | 10.72 |
| 8:00 | FOX | The Simpsons (R) | 2.7/8 | 6.38 |
| NBC | Football Night in America | 2.1/6 | 6.60 | |
| CBS | Undercover Boss (R) | 1.8/5 | 8.41 | |
| ABC | Movie: The Sound of Music (R) | 1.4/4 | 6.45 | |
| 8:30 | FOX | Cleveland Show (R) | 2.2/6 | 4.86 |
| NBC | Minute To Win It (R) | 1.4/4 | 4.53 | |
| 9:00 | FOX | Family Guy (R) | 2.5/7 | 5.29 |
| ABC | Movie: The Sound of Music (R) | 1.7/5 | 7.18 | |
| CBS | CSI: Miami (R) | 1.4/4 | 6.85 | |
| NBC | Minute to Win It (R) | 1.4/4 | 4.34 | |
| 9:30 | FOX | Running Wilde | 1.3/4 | 3.00 |
| 10:00 | ABC | Movie: The Sound of Music (R) | 1.6/5 | 6.81 |
| CBS | The Mentalist (R) | 1.5/4 | 7.33 | |
| NBC | Law & Order: SVU (R) | 1.2/3 | 3.76 |
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