Once again, the late Sunday afternoon window does very well in the ratings and again, beats Sunday Night Football. This week, CBS’ coverage of Colts-Pats which went out to 99% of the country received a 16.7 rating and a 30 share, beating NBC’s 15.9/24 for Giants-Eagles. Unlike Fox which has declared the late Sunday afternoon window, “America’s Game of the Week”, CBS is a bit more low-key, but does say Colts-Patriots was the highest rated game of the weekend. Here’s the press release.
“THE NFL ON CBS” SCORES AGAIN WITH RATINGS IN WEEK 11 WITH 12% RISEIndianapolis-New England Game Highlights Highest Rated Game of WeekendTHE NFL ON CBS’s Week 11 coverage, highlighted by the New England Patriots’, 31-28, win over the Indianapolis Colts in the Network’s national window of the doubleheader on Sunday, Nov. 21 (4:15 PM, ET), earned an average household rating/share of 16.7/30, up 12% from last year’s 14.9/28 in the metered markets. The Indy-Pats game was the highest-rated of the NFL weekend. The Network’s NFL pre-game show, THE NFL TODAY, scored a 2.8/7, up 17% from 2.4/6 in 2009.The Network’s regional game window featuring the Houston-N.Y. Jets, Oakland-Pittsburgh, Baltimore-Carolina, Cleveland-Jacksonville and Buffalo-Cincinnati games, earned an average household rating/share of 11.1/23, even with last year’s 11.1/23, in the metered markets.Through 11 weeks of the 2010 NFL season, THE NFL ON CBS has an average household rating/share in the metered markets of 12.8/25, up 10% from last year’s 11.6/23.
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