Tag: Television Ratings

Chiefs Week 1 victory over the Ravens set record as the most-watched NFL kickoff game

Kansas City #Chiefs Week 1 victory over the Baltimore #Ravens set record as the most-watched NFL kickoff game | @EdEastonJr

The Kansas City Chiefs maintain their dominance beyond the football field. The NFL kickoff victory over the Baltimore Ravens set a new television ratings record for the annual game.

According to NBC Sports, the game had an average audience of 28.9 million, surpassing the 27.6 million who watched the New England Patriots defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in the network’s 2015 opener. The audience peaked at 33 million in the second quarter, as the 20-minute weather delay at Arrowhead Stadium to start the game didn’t affect the numbers and turn away viewers.

The rating is five percent higher than last season’s opener against the Detroit Lions. The Chiefs fell short in that game 21-20 and were without Pro Bowlers Travis Kelce due to injury and Chris Jones because of his contract holdout.

Last Thursday’s contest almost went into overtime, as the Ravens were a toe away from scoring the game-tying touchdown with no time remaining in regulation. Denver, St. Louis, Norfolk, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Austin, Minneapolis, Detroit, and Cleveland were among the top markets, along with the expected ratings from Baltimore and Kansas City.

Chiefs earned incredible television ratings in Kansas City during matchup vs. Dolphins in Germany

Nearly everyone in Kansas City who has a television was tuned into the #Chiefs Week 9 game against the #Dolphins on Sunday.

The Kansas City Chiefs are officially an international sensation after beating the Miami Dolphins in Frankfurt, Germany during Week 9 action. The team, led by its defense, showed signs of new life after taking its second loss of the 2023 season against the Denver Broncos a week earlier, and Kansas City seems to be trending up heading into its bye week.

Fans tuned in for the matchup against Miami in incredible numbers, according to John Ourand of the Sports Business Journal.

No less than 94 percent of all TVs in the Kansas City area were tuned in to watch the Chiefs take down Tyreek Hill, meaning that nearly every fan with a television in Western Missouri was watching the international matchup unfold in real-time.

Few things can unite people like good football, and when Kansas City plays in a special time slot, the sheer scale of the crowd watching from home is truly mind-boggling.

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LSU’s national championship game set viewing records

The growth of the sport is undeniable, and the Tigers are at the forefront of it.

When LSU won its first women’s basketball national championship on Sunday afternoon, it did so in front of a record-setting national television audience.

With the game televised on ABC for the first time, a stunning 9.9 million people tuned in across all platforms. That’s a 103% increase from a year ago and shatters the previous viewing record.

For context, the 4.5 million people that watched last year’s title game was the most in two decades.

It’s clear that the sport is growing, and LSU is at the center of it as the title-winning team with some of the best personalities โ€” and athletes โ€” in the sport.

Just to put that figure in perspective, here are some recent events that the viewership exceeded.

With the WNBA’s restrictive draft rules meaning players like [autotag]Angel Reese[/autotag] and Caitlin Clark are likely to come back next season, this sport isn’t going anywhere. And neither, it seems, are the Tigers.

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