NFL’s Week 4 ratings a mixed bag compared to last season
NBC's Sunday Night Football was down 16.5% versus last season.
NBC's Sunday Night Football was down 16.5% versus last season.
CBS is off to its best two-week start to the season since 1998-1999.
Every network had something to celebrate in Week 1 of the NFL season thanks to soaring ratings on almost every platform that televised games.
Tom Brady's debut in the broadcast booth scored big ratings for the NFL on Fox, but maybe not as much as would have been hoped for.
Expect to see ratings for all streaming NFL partners to magically go up.
"Most of my sources expect NFL viewership to decline this year for the first time in a while..."
Super Bowl 58 set astronomical ratings for broadcast television, and the event saw record-setting women's viewership.
The NBA saw huge declines in ratings on Christmas Day while the NFL continued to see its viewership numbers soar.
This was the most-watched Christmas Day broadcast of any kind ever on Fox.
The NFL will be just fine, chugging along with its record-breaking numbers and vaccine-shilling tight ends.
This was the second-most-watched Monday Night Football game since 1996.
This was the highest-rated Christmas Day broadcast ever on CBS.
This season has seen year-over-year double-digit growth in TNF ratings for 13 of 14 games.
The ManningCast garnered around 940,000 viewers during MNF's doubleheader.
The Eagles-Chiefs Super Bowl rematch hit a season-high for the NFL and a near three-decade high for MNF.
It's an eight-year high through nine weeks for NFL viewership, poised for a strong finish to the 2023 season.
"Nielsen executives tried to introduce the prospect once more, according to three people familiar with the proceedings."
"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."
The NFL had 23 of the top 25 most-watched sporting events of 2023 so far.