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NBA ratings fall further behind NFL on Christmas Day
The NBA saw huge declines in ratings on Christmas Day while the NFL continued to see its viewership numbers soar.
Fox’s Christmas Day Giants-Eagles broadcast set network high, saw huge year-over-year jump
This was the most-watched Christmas Day broadcast of any kind ever on Fox.
Controversial UFC fighter makes false claims about NFL ratings
The NFL will be just fine, chugging along with its record-breaking numbers and vaccine-shilling tight ends.
ABC’s Christmas Day Ravens-49ers broadcast draws historic ratings
This was the second-most-watched Monday Night Football game since 1996.
Raiders-Chiefs, with lots of Taylor Swift shots, drew NFL’s best Christmas rating since…1989
This was the highest-rated Christmas Day broadcast ever on CBS.
Christmas Day now belongs to the NFL, not the NBA
‘Thursday Night Football’ Saints-Rams clash sees ratings rebound, return of double-digit year-over-year growth
This season has seen year-over-year double-digit growth in TNF ratings for 13 of 14 games.
ManningCast dips under 1M viewers during double ‘MNF,’ but there are plenty of caveats
The ManningCast garnered around 940,000 viewers during MNF's doubleheader.
Eagles-Chiefs is most-watched ‘Monday Night Football’ game since 1996
The Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl rematch hit a season-high for the NFL and a near three-decade high for MNF.
NFL viewership surging to highest level since 2015, all media partners seeing increases
It's an eight-year high through nine weeks for NFL viewership, poised for a strong finish to the 2023 season.
Nielsen reportedly once again pressing to use Amazon’s numbers despite industry pushback
"Nielsen executives tried to introduce the prospect once more, according to three people familiar with the proceedings."
Around Aaron Rodgers’ injury, Bills-Jets sets ESPN viewership record for ‘Monday Night Football’
VAB CEO Sean Cunningham claims Nielsen changes greatly favor Amazon over other networks
"The changes Nielsen wants to force into NFL currency next week are greatly favoring a single NFL publisher (Amazon) with single-digit share of live sports programming, through an opaque process that essentially builds a walled garden with favorable fundamentals for Amazon in the NFL, in one of the most competitive, highly valued properties in US marketing."
NBA and NFL dominate with 37 of top 50 watched sporting events of 2023 so far
The NFL had 23 of the top 25 most-watched sporting events of 2023 so far.
Three months later, Super Bowl LVII becomes most-watched U.S. broadcast ever thanks to Nielsen correction
It turns out Fox did set that record after all.
NFL-commissioned Nielsen survey reports big reach and audience gains for Super Bowl LVII
This survey suggests a gain from the previous Nielsen numbers on reach (from 182.6 million to 200 million viewers, a nine percent bump) and average minute audience (from 113.1 million to 136 million viewers, a 20 percent rise).
Super Bowl viewership up six percent in Canada, TSN and RDS set streaming record
Bell Media's CTV/TSN/RDS broadcasts of Super Bowl LVII averaged 8.6 million viewers.
Super Bowl LVII averages 113 million viewers, falling short of targeted record
Fox didn't hit their desired record, but came close.
Will Super Bowl LVII set the all-time viewership record?
Amazon’s audience for preseason game was significantly younger than NFL preseason average
The overall audience here was eighth out of nine nationally-aired preseason games last week, but it was younger than the preseason average.
The NFL’s Divisional Round ratings were predictably impressive
Great games and big names led to a huge weekend for NFL ratings.
21 of 32 NFL teams saw local ratings increases, but Texans, Giants, Bears, Seahawks and more saw big drops
Houston saw an 18 percent drop, while Chicago, Seattle, and the Giants all saw 14 percent drops.
CBS says Raiders-Cowboys Thanksgiving game averaged 38.5 million viewers, highest NFL regular-season audience since 1990
The Cowboys have been involved in several high ratings points this year, but this one really stands out.
Bucs-Patriots was second-most watched Sunday Night Football game ever, most-watched since 2012, with highest share ever
The total average audience here was 28.5 million viewers, with 1.3 million of those watching on streaming.