NFL Network Wins Thursday Night Cable Primetime Ratings

Another NFL Network Thursday Night Football game and another primetime win. The only time NFL Network didn’t win was last Thursday when TNT took the viewership for the Miami-Cleveland NBA game.

In this case, the Indianapolis-Tennessee matchup defeated the entire TNT NBA doubleheader rather handily. Just under 5.5 million viewers watched Colts-Titans. We have the press release from NFL Network.

COLTS-TITANS ON NFL NETWORK’S THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL RANKS AS NIGHT’S NO. 1 SHOW ON CABLE
Season-to-Date Viewership up 38 Percent from 2009
Last night’s Indianapolis Colts-Tennessee Titans game on NFL Network was Thursday’s most watched show on cable drawing an average of 5.4 million cable viewers (not including over-the-air stations in Indianapolis and Nashville).
NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football is averaging 5.7 million cable viewers this season — its best mark through five games and up 38 percent from last year (4.1 million viewers).
Colts-Titans topped all entertainment and sports competition last night including Celtics-76ers (1.7 million viewers) and Magic-Trail Blazers (1.3 million viewers) on TNT.
Thursday Night Football continues with the San Francisco 49ers at San Diego Chargers next Thursday, Dec. 16 at 8:00 PM ET. The Thursday Night Kickoff Presented by Sears pregame show begins at 6:00 PM ET.

NFL Network airs seven days a week, 24 hours a day on a year-round basis and is the only network fully dedicated to the NFL and the sport of football. For more information, log onto www.nfl.com/nflnetwork. NFL.com is the exclusive internet home of NFL Network.

And the NFL previews for Sunday are coming up.

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Ken has been covering the sports media in earnest at his own site, Fang's Bites since May 2007 and at Awful Announcing since March 2013. He provides a unique perspective having been an award-winning radio news reporter in Providence and having worked in local television. Fang celebrates the three Boston Red Sox World Championships in the 21st Century, but continues to be a long-suffering Cleveland Browns fan.

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