NFL Week 5 ratings: CBS singleheader rises, Sunday Night Football drops week to week but stays even with last year, Fox posts a...
CBS is now off to its best NFL start since 2016.
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Monday Night Football’s Bengals-Steelers game sees 21 percent viewership drop year-over-year, but rises slightly from Week 3
Shockingly, the winless Steelers and Bengals drew less viewers than last year's Chiefs-Broncos matchup.
NFL ad pricing is up 5 to 10 percent year over year, a rebound from 2018’s declines
Improved 2018 regular-season ratings likely played a role here.
The NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Game dropped 21 percent in viewership from 2018
The Broncos-Falcons Hall of Fame Game Thursday averaged 5.329 million viewers, down from last year's 6.679 million viewers for Bears-Ravens.
The idea of making NFL Network a “33rd team” is interesting, especially considering not-so-great combine ratings on ABC
Further NFLN access might boost ratings, but top recruits might have some concerns.
NFL wild card ratings are all up for the first time in five years, but they’re still well below many past games
Every wild card window grew this year, but that's partly because the ratings last year were so bad.
Last year’s NFL criticism from President Trump seems to have had only a small impact on Sunday Night Football ratings
There was little evidence of Trump's September comments producing a ratings impact, and Trump-favoring markets saw ratings declines at a similar rate to tossup markets.
Week 4 Sunday NFL ratings again show a year-over-year rise, except for Fox’s afternoon window
Both CBS windows and the NBC Sunday night game were up double digits year-over-year.
Robert Kraft calls for NFL to “do a better job on our messaging” on ratings…by repeating talking points they already use?
"I think we've got to do a better job on our messaging. General television, broadcast television, ratings are down across the board, but the NFL is still pretty strong."
NFL Week 3 afternoon window shot up 11 percent despite competition from Tiger, while SNF rose 17 percent, but early games fell
NBC's Sunday Night Football posted its best Week 3 overnight since 2015, while Fox's Cowboys-Seahawks broadcast did well despite competition from Tiger Woods' victory at the Tour Championship.
All Sunday NFL broadcast windows increase in Week 2
CBS, Fox, and NBC all reported overnight ratings increases compared to Week 2 in 2017.
Media buyers bullish on ‘Thursday Night Football’ on Fox in spite of recent NFL ratings decline
Despite a downward trend in NFL ratings, there may be a rise in one part of the NFL schedule.
DeMaurice Smith wants the NFL to be more like the NBA, but there are some structural issues in the way of that
Will the Super Bowl dip back below 100 million viewers next year?
Can anything stop the NFL ratings decline?
Predicting Super Bowl LII viewership numbers: Another drop coming?
Will we see another decline for the big game?
