Cowboys’ Return to Playoff Picture Enriches Already Loaded NFL Season
On the heels of the most-watched NFL season in six years, the smart money says the ratings momentum will continue throughout a playoffs slate crammed with the league’s…
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NFL Games Account for 75 of the 100 Most-Watched Broadcasts of 2021
In a year marked by a pair of ratings-hogging quadrennial events and a whole lot of Beltway intrigue, the NFL in 2021 effectively swallowed TV whole, accounting for 41…
Raiders-Cowboys Turkey Trot Serves Up Highest NFL Ratings in 28 Years
Like the green bean casserole your self-medicating cousin whipped up in a Thanksgiving morning frenzy, the Raiders-Cowboys game wasn’t exactly a thing of beauty, but it…
Cowboy Up: Dallas-Kansas City Skirmish Draws 28.1 Million Viewers
When Thanksgiving arrives and only five NFC teams have managed to post better than a .500 record and the AFC race is about as opaque as the contents of a gravy boat…
Buffalo Trumps NYC as NFL Finds Biggest Die-Hards in Smallest Markets
If it’s a fall Sunday and you’re a Buffalonian, the odds are good (really, really good) that, come 1 p.m., you’ll be parked in front of the set to watch the Bills on…
NFL Fans Don’t Miss Aaron Rodgers as Packers-Chiefs Ratings Soar
Unless you somehow managed to spend the better part of last week trapped in the bottom of a well, you’re likely aware that Aaron Rodgers didn’t play football on Sunday…
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NFL’s Overtime Spree Underscores Parity’s Impact on TV Ratings
Before Oliver Stone came along and rebooted Platoon as a sports picture, the chestnut “any given Sunday” used to serve as a sort of rhetorical shorthand for NFL…
CBS, Fox Regional Windows Play a Key Role in NFL’s Ratings Rally
Tom Brady’s Nielsen-juicing impact on the 2021 NFL season appears to be contagious, as the league in Week 4 enjoyed one of its highest-rated outings in years. And while…
NFL TV Ratings Hold Up as Fans Revel in Weird, Wild Opening Week
A few new wrinkles to the NFL’s Week One schedule made an absolute hash of the practice of calculating year-over-year ratings comparisons, but for the most part, the…
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Yankees, Dodgers Networks Thrive Even as RSN Model Crumbles
As shaky as the regional sports network (RSN) model has looked during the last few years of accelerated pay-TV contraction, there are a few local sports outlets that…
Young Audience Flees TV, Creating an Uncertain Future for Sports
While it would be premature for anyone to start digging TV’s grave, the ongoing depreciation of the traditional cable bundle and what amounts to a generational…
Disney Christmas NBA Ratings Get Scrooged by Blowouts
A series of blowouts conspired to put the humbug on Disney’s Christmas NBA marathon, leaving ABC and ESPN with lumps of coal in their ratings stockings. According to…
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