Posted on 01/03/2018 7:06:34 AM PST by 11th_VA
Capping a season of record-low Monday Night Football ratings, ESPN’s first Christmas NFL game in 11 years was a lump of coal.
Raiders-Eagles scored a 5.9 rating and 11.7 million viewers on ESPN’s Monday Night Football Christmas night, down 42% in ratings and 38% in viewership from Week 16 last year (Cowboys-Lions: 10.1, 18.9M). ESPN’s Nielsen ratings now include streaming viewership on TV devices; comparisons are to last year’s TV+streaming numbers.
The Eagles’ win, which peaked at a 6.7 and 13.4 million from 9:30-10 PM ET, was the lowest rated Week 16 MNF game since Broncos-Chargers on Christmas Eve 2007 (5.1). It was the least-watched since Falcons-Lions in 2012, which aired on a Saturday night to avoid Christmas Eve (9.7M).
Of the 14 Christmas NFL games this century, it ranks tenth in ratings and ninth in viewership. Compared to last year’s Christmas night game, Broncos-Chiefs on NBC, ratings fell 44% from a 10.6 and viewership 45% from 21.4 million.
On a brighter note, it was ESPN’s most-watched Christmas Day program in 23 years — since Lions-Dolphins had 16.1 million on the holiday in 1994. That comes with the caveat that ESPN has only aired one other Christmas NFL game, Jets-Dolphins in 2006 (11.1M).
ESPN’s telecast had an 8.9 rating in Philadelphia and a mere 3.6 in the Bay Area. Over-the-air simulcasts on ABC affiliates drew a 24.0 on Philadelphia’s WPVI and a 7.8 on KGO in the Bay Area. New Orleans was the top neutral market with a 12.3.
For the season, Monday Night Football averaged a 6.4 rating and 10.8 million viewers — the lowest rated and least-watched season in series history. The previous lows were a 6.8 last year and 11.2 million viewers in 2007.
Monday Night Football ratings and viewership have now declined in four straight seasons. Just four years ago, the package averaged an 8.6 and 13.7 million.
Eight of the final nine MNF games this season hit multi-year lows in ratings and viewership. Five games failed to crack a 6.0 rating, matching the previous nine seasons combined.
Average Monday Night Football Ratings, Viewership
no it’s not like CNN, it’s because sports are watched live and commercials cannot be skipped they way they are on a DVR or with streaming services like HULU or netflix that remove them. therefore it is much more likely that an ad placed during a sporting event will be seen which still demands a premium.
if you use the word “sportsball” you are a cuck, if you think your personal TV viewing habits affect anyone other than yourself you are delusional, conceited, arrogant, bumptious, full of oneself, puffed up, pompous, overbearing, opinionated, cocky, presumptuous, sententious, vain, overweening, egotistical cuck as well.
Who all play Rutgers a team who would have a tough time beating the better hs teams in NJ.
NFL games still top of 2017 TV viewership
The top five watched TV shows of 2017 happened to be NFL games.
http://www.nbcsports.com/video/nfl-games-still-top-2017-tv-viewership
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Every conference has crap teams at the bottom. Rutgers looks bad when they get pounded by the Big 4 in the B1G East every year. But even Indiana played competitively with all but Penn State, and went on the road and beat Virginia this year, and beat them pretty convincingly.
Don’t let facts get in the way
TOP tv broadcast audiences of 2017
1 Super Bowl LI, ATL-NE (Fox) 111.3M 45.3
2 NFC Divisional Playoff, GB-DAL (Fox) 48.5M 26.1
3 AFC Championship Game, PIT-NE (CBS) 48.0M 24.4
4 NFC Championship Game, GB-ATL (Fox) 46.3M 25.0
5 NFC Wild Card Playoff, NYG-GB (Fox) 39.3M 21.3
6 AFC Divisional Playoff, PIT-KC (NBC) 37.1M 19.8
I did not include the trump inauguration because it was a cumulative audience number adding all network coverage.
I find it hard to believe that anyone still cares about any game.
I never said your TV viewing habits effected me. I just said if you wear another mans name on your own back, you are a cuck.
Super Bowl 51 drew a 48.8 overnight rating
Super Bowl 50, had a 49.0 rating.
Super Bowl 49, the game where Brady won his fourth Super Bowl ring against the Seattle Seahawks, had an overnight rating of 49.7, which is a record for overnight ratings
Interesting to see what this year's numbers are ...
Not exactly, you are looking at share number not the total audience #s while 45.3% of tv’s were tuned to last years super bowl it was the largest audienece in viewers with 172,000,000
February 2, 2014 XLVIII Fox 167,000,000 46.7
February 1, 2015 XLIX NBC 168,000,000 47.5
February 7, 2016 50 CBS 167,000,000 46.6
February 5, 2017 LI Fox 172,000,000 45.3
Additionally the the last four super bowl games are the 4 highest rated tv programs ever, and the final episode of mash is the only program in the top 20 rated tv programs of all time that was not a super bowl game.
As I said, I know for a fact that I am not alone in this. :-)
And like I said, you don’t matter.
From Twitter:
We put our newborn son on #Packers season-ticket waiting list in 1995. He started at 18,945 on the list. Now, 22 years later, he’s at 5,857.
6:12 PM - Sep 14, 2017
And you do?
No, but I also don’t let the stupid actions of a few idiots keep me from enjoying football.
Oh, well. I stand for my flag, my country and my fellow Vets. Snowflakes and cupcakes, not so much. It’s an Oathkeeper thing, so I don’t expect everybody to understand.
Have a nice day.
Yeah Well I won’t cut and run from a sport I enjoy watching cause a few retarded liberals tried to infect it. I guess we are lucky your little temper tantrum didn’t spill over to boycott elections after Obama won and you didn’t get your way. I really feel sorry for you. But if you think it makes you more patriotic to let the liberals ruin football for you, whatever that’s your decision And your loss. PS you missed some great games new England Pittsburgh was amazing.
it will be interesting to see how goes the TV and radio contracts when they come up for renewal.
Yeah it’s much more rational to think that you depriving yourself of enjoyment over the actions of a few stupid liberals Somehow affects anyone but you, additionally to think that someone who is mature enough to separate the actions of a few individuals from an entire industry is somehow less patriots is even more ridiculous. Also a true patriot would appreciate that despite if I agree or disagree with an individual and their protest I fought for them to have that right to protest and thank god I live in a country where they can, so gfys Eli, a name despised by any true New England Patriot.
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