The overnight ratings for Sunday primetime are in. NBC’s Sunday Night Football airing a thrilling game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Atlanta Falcons won the night rather handily, garnering a 15.7 overnight rating and a 25 share. According to NBC, that’s up 3% from last year’s Manning Bowl II matchup between the Indianapolis Colts and New York Giants which received a 15.2/24.
In addition, SNF beat the Emmy Awards on Fox rather easily, 15.7 to 9.4.
Looking at the local ratings, Atlanta and Philadelphia were the top 2 metered markets for the game as one would expect. New Orleans, Richmond, VA, Norfolk, VA, Washington, DC and Las Vegas were also in the top 10 markets watching the game.
We have the press release from NBC Sports.
EAGLES-FALCONS ON SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL POWERS NBC TO ANOTHER SUNDAY NIGHT WIN
15.7 Overnight Rating Up 3% From Last Year’s Week 2 “Manning Bowl II” SNF Game 67% Higher than Closest Competition
NEW YORK – Sept. 19, 2011 – Last night’s Eagles-Falcons Sunday Night Football game on NBC registered a 15.7 overnight rating and a 25 share, a gain of three percent over last year’s Week 2 game, according to overnight ratings data released today by The Nielsen Company. The game also led NBC to another Sunday night win while going head-to-head against the Emmy Awards on Fox.
The 15.7/25 overnight rating for last night’s game, in which Matt Ryan and the Falcons defeated Michael Vick and the Eagles, 35-31, is up three percent from last year’s Sunday Night Football Week 2 contest, which featured the Manning brothers, Eli and Peyton, competing against each other for the second time (Giants-Colts, 15.2/24). The overnight rating peaked from 9:30-10 p.m. ET at a 17.0/26.
SNF IS NO. 1 SHOW OF THE NIGHT, TOPS EMMYS: For the fourth straight time that Sunday Night Football went head-to-head with the Emmy Awards (NBC aired the Emmys last year), SNF delivered a convincing victory defeating the awards program by a margin of 67 percent (15.7 vs.9.4).
- Sunday Night Football again powered NBC to a Sunday night win in primetime, averaging 12.2/19 from 7-11 p.m. in metered-market households, 44 percent ahead of second place Fox (8.5/13).
TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR EAGLES-FALCONS:
- Atlanta, 33.6/50
- Philadelphia, 33.5/49
- New Orleans, 27.9/37
- Richmond, 27.4/34
- Norfolk, 25.7/37
- Washington, D.C., 20.3/34
- Las Vegas, 19.6/31
- Memphis, 18.9/27
- Dallas, 18.2/29
- Charlotte, 18.1/28
**Viewership numbers will be available when national ratings are released tomorrow**
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