NFL Football Ratings Were Up Again This Weekend
by EG
The NFL battled itself this weekend with CBS' coverage of Sunday games challenging NBC's prime time Sunday Night Football coverage. CBS was the winner, posting ratings for its late game that were significantly higher than those of the same week last season. But NBC didn't do terribly, either, turning in ratings that at least improved over last week's. In any case, the upward trend continues for NFL ratings despite Donald Trump's calls for a boycott of the league.
CBS had true bragging rights on Sunday. Though its coverage of the Dallas’ win over Kansas City barely made its way into primetime, it was by far the biggest football game of the day — besting NBC's Sunday Night Football (Oakland and Miami) by nearly 50 percent.
The NFL on CBS scored its highest rating of the 2017 season, with its full day coverage up 15 percent from 2016 and the marquee Dallas-KC game averaging a 14.2 overnight rating among households. Stack that against NBC's primetime coverage, which barely improved (a 9.6 rating) after going against the World Series, and CBS' coverage looks even more dominant.
Sunday Night Football was actually a reasonably tight game, the Raiders besting the Dolphins 27-24, but those two franchises clearly did not register much with viewers. Fortunately for NBC, the always reliable New England Patriots are set to play in primetime again next week.
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