This in from the National Football League. With the 2011-12 TV season ending on Wednesday, Sunday Night Football becomes the first sports series to be ranked first in average viewership with 21.5 million for the entire schedule and 20.9 million for the 2011-12 primetime season. American Idol finished second in viewership.
SNF on NBC also ranked first among all primetime programs in household ratings as well as key adult and male demographics.
So the NFL came into this season off a record viewing year in 2010-11 and sets another huge milestone in the 2011-12 television season.
Certainly something to crow about for the NFL. We have the National Football League press release below for you.
Sunday Night Football first sports series to rank as most-watched primetime show for full TV season
With the conclusion of the 2011-12 television season last night, NBC’s Sunday Night Football topped all primetime entertainment programming to become the first sports series to finish the full fall-spring TV season as the most-watched show in primetime, according to The Nielsen Company.
Sunday Night Football averaged 21.5 million viewers and 20.9 million viewers for its games during the official TV season which ran from Sept. 19, 2011 through May 23, 2012. American Idol ranked second. Sunday Night Football was also the top-ranked primetime program for the television season in household rating, and all key adult and male demographics.
Additional TV highlights from the 2011 NFL season:
- Super Bowl XLVI on NBC was the most-watched program in U.S. television history.
- The AFC and NFC Championship Games accounted for the most-watched Championship Sunday in 30 years.
- Divisional Playoff weekend was the most watched ever, with Giants-Packers on FOX ranking as the most-watched Divisional Playoff game in history.
- The Steelers-Broncos playoff game on CBS was the most-watched Wild Card game ever.
- FOX posted its most-watched NFL season ever.
- CBS posted its second-most watched NFL season since acquiring the AFC package.
- ESPN’s Monday Night Football was the most-watched series on cable for the sixth consecutive year.
- NFL Network’s Thursday Night Football posted its most-watched season ever..
Congratulations to the NFL on this feat. More later
