The NFL Once Again Is The 800 Lbs. Ratings Gorilla

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The NFL Once Again Is The 800 Lbs. Ratings Gorilla

Received this press release from the National Football League regarding the ratings for Week 3 and once again, they’re good. The late Sunday afternoon window featuring Indianapolis at Denver on CBS was the most watched program of the week and NBC’s Sunday Night game between the New York Jets and Miami was tops among primetime programming. And on cable, the Monday Night Football game on ESPN with Green Bay at Chicago was the 5th most watched show in history.

Is the NFL loved in America? Apparently so.

NFL GAMES TOP RATINGS IN 27 MARKETS IN “PREMIERE WEEK”

CBS National Game (mostly Colts-Broncos) Week’s Most-Watched Show

Packers-Bears on ESPN Most-Watched Show on Cable in 2010

NFL games topped the local ratings in 27 markets last week, which featured the premieres of many prime-time programs on the broadcast networks (up from 26 top-ranked NFL markets in “premiere week” last year and 19 in 2008).

NFL games compared favorably in local ratings to prime-time competition:

Program

# of NFL Markets Ranked #1

NFL Football

27

Dancing with the Stars premiere

1

Detroit 1-8-7 series premiere

1

Grey’s Anatomy premiere

1

The CBS national game (mostly Colts-Broncos) was the most-watched program on television last week (Sept. 20-26) with 23.1 million viewers.

Packers-Bears on ESPN Monday night (Sept. 27) drew cable’s largest audience of 2010 with 17.5 million viewers. ESPN Monday night games account for the top five and eight of the 10 most-watched shows in cable history.

Following is the list of 27 NFL markets where football was the top-rated program for the week of Sept. 20-26:

Week of 9/20–9/26

HH

HH

RTG

Market

Game

Date

RTG

SHR

Rank

New Orleans

Falcons at Saints

9/26/10

50.4

76

1

Pittsburgh

Steelers at Bucs

9/26/10

45.6

75

1

Indianapolis

Colts at Broncos

9/26/10

39.5

63

1

Kansas City

49ers at Chiefs

9/26/10

37.8

67

1

Baltimore

Browns at Ravens

9/26/10

34.5

64

1

Cincinnati

Bengals at Panthers

9/26/10

33.1

60

1

San Diego

Chargers at Seahawks

9/26/10

32.8

62

1

Dallas

Cowboys at Texans

9/26/10

32.7

62

1

Buffalo

Bills at Patriots

9/26/10

32.5

56

1

Minneapolis

Lions at Vikings

9/26/10

32.4

71

1

Nashville

Titans at Giants

9/26/10

31.2

54

1

Denver

Colts at Broncos

9/26/10

30.1

58

1

Boston

Bills at Patriots

9/26/10

29.3

62

1

Houston

Cowboys at Texans

9/26/10

28.8

54

1

Philadelphia

Eagles at Jaguars

9/26/10

27.6

46

1

St. Louis

Redskins at Rams

9/26/10

27.5

45

1

Jacksonville

Eagles at Jaguars

9/26/10

27.2

44

1

Washington, DC

Redskins at Rams

9/26/10

26.7

48

1

Phoenix

Raiders at Cardinals

9/26/10

26.0

48

1

Cleveland

Browns at Ravens

9/26/10

25.6

51

1

Charlotte

Bengals at Panthers

9/26/10

25.3

45

1

Atlanta

Falcons at Saints

9/26/10

25.1

43

1

Seattle

Chargers at Seahawks

9/26/10

24.5

51

1

Miami

Jets at Dolphins

9/26/10

24.0

36

1

San Fran-Oakland

Saints at 49ers

9/20/10

22.2

40

1

Milwaukee

Lions at Vikings

9/26/10

21.3

46

1

Tampa

Chargers at Seahawks (bonus coverage)

9/26/10

14.0

24

1

Source: NFL & The Nielsen Company

Coming up next, linkage. I’ll be working on that throughout the afternoon.

Tag:

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