A day full of Thanksgiving foods and football followed a similar trendline to the NFL season overall in Nielsen’s metered market overnight ratings, with the first two games of the day up slightly over similar teams last year.
NBC’s primetime game, which continued the tradition of making your aunt ask why they were calling it “Sunday Night Football” if it was being played on a Thursday, was down an uncomfortable 26% from 2015 as the Pittsburgh Steelers shellacked the Andrew Luck-less Indianapolis Colts, with a 10.8 household rating. However, that 2015 game, between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, was the best-ever metered-market rating in the 10-year history of NFL Thanksgiving night games, and itself a 17% improvement on the previous year, with a 14.6 household rating. Still, Thursday night’s contest won’t do much to assuage NFL ratings fears.
The first game of the day saw the Lions beat the Vikings 16-13 on CBS, bringing...
NBC’s primetime game, which continued the tradition of making your aunt ask why they were calling it “Sunday Night Football” if it was being played on a Thursday, was down an uncomfortable 26% from 2015 as the Pittsburgh Steelers shellacked the Andrew Luck-less Indianapolis Colts, with a 10.8 household rating. However, that 2015 game, between the Chicago Bears and the Green Bay Packers, was the best-ever metered-market rating in the 10-year history of NFL Thanksgiving night games, and itself a 17% improvement on the previous year, with a 14.6 household rating. Still, Thursday night’s contest won’t do much to assuage NFL ratings fears.
The first game of the day saw the Lions beat the Vikings 16-13 on CBS, bringing...
- 11/25/2016
- by Oriana Schwindt
- Variety - TV News
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