Tag: nfl ratings

Broncos blowing out Saints on ‘TNF’ was bad for Prime’s ratings

Football fans weren’t too interested in watching the Broncos beat up the Saints — it was TNF’s least-watched matchup so far this season.

The Denver Broncos got a big win over the New Orleans Saints on Thursday Night Football last week. It was 33-3 late in the fourth quarter until the Broncos put in their second-string defense and the Saints made a change at quarterback. New Orleans then scored late to make the final score 33-10.

It was a fun game for Broncos fans, but not necessarily appealing to a national audience. Denver was 3-3 going into the game and the Saints were 2-4. The game did mark Sean Payton’s return to New Orleans, but that might not have been as big of a draw as the NFL thought it would be.

The Broncos-Saints showdown got 9.81 million viewers, according to Austin Karp of the Sports Business Journal. That marked the first time this season a TNF game averaged fewer than 10 million viewers.

While the number was a dip for this season, it was still higher than the NFL’s TNF game in Week 7 last year, which drew 9.79 million viewers.

Thursday wasn’t a great ratings night for Prime, but the league’s ratings are still up overall compared to last year.

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Eagles loss to the Jets was the most watch NFL game since Super Bowl LVII

The Week 6 matchup between the #Eagles and Jets averaged 26.09 million viewers on Fox, marking the largest NFL television audience of the year

The Eagles are big business, with fans loving to see them play live, as well as on TV and streaming devices across the globe.

Philadelphia may have lost the Sunday battle to the Jets, but they continue to win the war of relevancy in a league full of star power and popular teams.

According to Fox Sports PR, the Week 6 matchup between the Eagles and Jets averaged 26.09 million viewers on Fox, marking the largest NFL television audience of the year so far.

Saints’ win over Bucs was highest-rated FOX NFL opener in 4 years

The New Orleans Saints drew a huge audience in their Week 1 game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the highest NFL on FOX broadcast since 2016.

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So much for all that chatter about a boycott. FOX Sports reported an overnight rating of 16.2 from its Week 1 game between the New Orleans Saints and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a four-year high for the season’s first FOX NFL Game of the Week.

This game received a higher viewership rating than its 2019 counterpart (15.9), and projects to rank best among all national telecasts since Super Bowl LIV earlier this year once all markets report their individual ratings. It turns out that Drew Brees and Tom Brady can still draw a crowd.

It will be fascinating to track each team’s progress over the course of the 2020 season; while Brees and the Saints were self-critical in looking for ways to improve and clear up their remaining weaknesses, Brady and the Buccaneers must reevaluate their own areas of strength to find what went wrong.

For now, the Saints are sitting alone on top of the NFC South standings, and they’re hoping to hold onto that spot as they prepare for Week 2’s Monday Night Football game with the Las Vegas Raiders.

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