23.2 Million Watch Giants-Eagles on Sunday Night Football

More amazing ratings for NBC Sports and Sunday Night Football. The New York Giants-Philadelphia Eagles game garnered more than 23 million viewers and a 13.9 rating and 22 share which is 31% higher than last year’s Week 11 game. Here are the ratings.

23.2 MILLION WATCH EAGLES BEAT GIANTS ON “SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”

7^th NBC Primetime NFL Game This Season to Surpass 20 Million Viewers; Most Through First 11 Weeks in SNF History 

23.2 Million is 34% Higher Than Week 11 Game in ‘09

SNF Most-Watched Sunday Night Show Every Week So Far This Season (11 For 11)

Most-Watched and Highest-Rated Primetime Program of the Week

Most-Watched Show of the Primetime Season and No. 1 in All Key Adult and Male Demos

SNF Has Best Average Viewership For Primetime NFL Package in 14 Years

NEW YORK – November 23, 2010 – This week’s “Sunday Night Football” game, which featured the Philadelphia Eagles 27-17 victory over the New York Giants, was the most-watched program on Sunday night for the 11^th straight week, the most-watched primetime show of the week and was up 34 percent compared to last year’s Week 11 game, according to official national data released today by The Nielsen Company. “Sunday Night Football” is the most-watched show for the primetime television season (based on Nielsen live + same day data).

The game, a battle for first place in the NFC East, drew 23.2 million viewers, the seventh NBC primetime NFL game this season to surpass 20 million viewers, the most through 11 weeks in NBC’s five-year “Sunday Night Football” history.

2010 NBC PRIMETIME GAMES WITH 20 MILLION OR MORE VIEWERS:

1. 9/9/10, Vikings-Saints, 27.5 million (Thursday NFL Kickoff Opener)

2. 10/24/10, Vikings-Packers, 25.7 million (Favre Return to Lambeau II)

3. 9/12/10, Cowboys-Redskins, 25.3 million (SNF: Week 1)

4. 11/21/10, Giants-Eagles, 23.2 million (Sunday’s Game)

5. 9/19/10, Giants-Colts, 23.1 million (“Manning Bowl II”)

6. 11/14/10, Patriots-Steelers, 21.2 million (Last Sunday’s Game)

7. 10/3/10, Bears-Giants, 20.9 million

NBC PRIMETIME GAMES WITH 20 MILLION OR MORE VIEWERS

(Through 11 weeks)

2010 – 7

2009 – 5

2008 – 1

2007 – 0

2006 – 2

• NBC’s 11-week viewership of 21.5 million is nearly two million more than and 10 percent above last year’s 19.6 million, and up 31 percent over 2008 (16.4 million) through the same point in the season.

DEFEATED ALL SUNDAY NIGHT COMPETITION: The “Sunday Night Football” broadcast defeated all Sunday Night competition for the 11^th time in 11 weeks, including original broadcasts of ABC’s Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, and CBS’s 60 Minutes, Amazing Race, Undercover Boss and CSI Miami, and Fox’s The Simpsons, Cleveland Show, and Family Guy.

SNF IS 11 FOR 11: With 23.2 million viewers, “Sunday Night Football” was the most-watched primetime show on Sunday night for the 11^th straight week this season (100 percent). Last season, SNF was the most-watched Sunday night primetime broadcast in a record 15 of 16 (94 percent) weeks. In 2008, SNF won 13 of 16 (81 percent) Sunday nights after winning 11 of 16 in 2007 (69 percent) and nine of 16 in 2006 (56 percent).

• The 23.2 million is nearly six million more and 34 percent higher than the Eagles-Bears Week 11 game last season (17.3 million). Sunday night’s household rating of 13.9/22 is more than three rating points and 31 percent higher than last year’s Eagles-Bears game.

• Sunday’s game was the seventh game this season to earn a 12.5 household rating or better, the most through 11 weeks in NBC’s five-year “Sunday Night Football” history.

NO. 1 SHOW OF THE WEEK: Sunday’s game was the most-watched and highest-rated primetime program of the week and, for the 11^th straight week, “Sunday Night Football” was the No. 1 regularly-scheduled primetime broadcast of the week by a wide margin among Adults 18-49, the coveted advertiser demographic. SNF was also the No. 1 show this week among Adults 18-34, Adults 25-54, Men 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54.

• For the week, “Sunday Night Football” had a 76-percent margin of victory over the No. 2 show in Adults 18-49 (8.8 for SNF vs. 5.0 for Glee on Fox).

• “Sunday Night Football” stands as the most-watched primetime show on television (based on Nielsen live + same day data), and the No. 1 regularly scheduled primetime show in all key adult and male demos.

o SNF is also the No. 3 show since the beginning of the football season among Women 18-34 and 18-49.

THROUGH 11 WEEKS, SNF BEST IN 14 YEARS: Through the first 11 weeks of the NFL season, “Sunday Night Football” is averaging 21.5 million viewers, the most through this point in the season for a primetime NFL package in 14 years (23.0 million in 1996 on ABC).

SNF AVERAGE VIEWERSHIP THROUGH 10 WEEKS:

1. 2010, 21.5 million

2. 2009, 19.6 million

3. 2006, 17.7 million

4. 2008, 16.4 million

5. 2007, 16.1 million

The 11-week average household rating of 12.9/21 is nine-percent higher than last year’s 11.8/19 and 28 percent ahead of 2008 (10.1/16) through the same point in the season.

TOP METERED MARKETS FOR GIANTS-EAGLES:

1. Philadelphia, 38.1/53
2. Norfolk, 26.3/38
3. New Orleans, 24.2/32
4. Las Vegas, 23.9/35
5. Richmond, 20.3/32
6. San Diego, 20.2/30
7. New York, 20.1/21
8. Atlanta, 18.5/29
9. Washington, D.C., 18.3/29
10. Charlotte, 18.0/28

And that’s it.