FOX, NBC Report NFL Ratings Boom for Week 1 Telecasts

by Milton KentFiled under: NFL Media Watch, Sports Business and MediaThe production trucks have barely cleared out of the respective stadiums and NBC and FOX are already crowing about big ratings boosts from NFL telecasts Sunday, the first week of the new season.

FOX, for instance, is hyping Sunday's telecast of the 4:15 p.m. Sunday game, which was the Philadelphia-Green Bay game for most of the country, as the highest rated and most watched Week 1 national game in the history of the network.

The 16.5/32 Nielsen overnight rating/share, which resulted in a viewership of 28 million people, is an 11 percent boost from last year's 14.8/29 and 25.1 million viewers, and tied with NBC's Thursday night game between New Orleans and Minnesota as the highest rated broadcast on any network since the Oscars in March.

Meanwhile, NBC touts that its broadcast of the Washington-Dallas game Sunday night was the most watched opening week prime time game in 14 years as well as the most watched Sunday night game ever. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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