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NBC received a delayed Christmas gift the as the coverage of the Dallas Cowboys-Washington Football Team earned the network the top spot in the final Sunday primetime of 2021. Sunday Night Football on NBC earned a 3.4 rating in the 18-49 demo and approximately 13 million viewers, per fast affiliates. The top-rated and…

ABC scored the highest primetime demo rating and viewership for the second Monday in a row with coverage of the Minnesota Vikings-Chicago Bears game. Earning a 1.4 rating in the 18-49 demo and 7.54 million viewers, per fast affiliates, ABC’s MNF coverage shined bright against other networks’ primetime slates – which…

NBC’s coverage of Sunday Night Football was an obvious winner for primetime, the same way the New Orleans Saints were the clear conquerers of the latest NFL game. Earning a 3.6 rating in the 18-49 demo and 14.13 million viewers in fast affiliates, SNF was the highest-rated and most-watched program of the evening. SNF…

Fox, for the second consecutive night, topped primetime demo ratings. Following The Masked Singer‘s finale on Wednesday, Fox returned to rule primetime with its coverage of Thursday Night Football’s showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Chargers. Earning a 2.7 demo rating in the 18-49 demo and 11.62…

Thursday primetime unsurprisingly belonged to Fox’s coverage of the NFL game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings as the sports event drew in the night’s biggest audience and highest demo rating. The Minnesota Vikings pulled through with success, beating the Steelers 36-28. The game brought in a 2.3…

Fox’s coverage of NFL Football’s showdown between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons lead the charge on Thursday evening. Like most live football games, the matchup, which saw the Patriots pummel the Falcons 25-0, obviously marked the highest-rated and most-watched program of the evening. The latest Thurs…

Fox continues to score primetime wins with its sports coverage. After two consecutive nights of topping primetime with its coverage of the first two 2021 World Series games, Fox maintained the lead with Thursday Night Football’s Green Bay Packers-Arizona Cardinals showdown. Thursday’s game, which saw the Packers best…

Sunday's schedule and ratings ended up all over the place due to football overruns and the networks' breaking in to their primetime programming on the East Coast to show President Barack Obama's speech to the interfaith memorial service for the victims of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.  Having said that, a $1…

The defiant longtime owner of the NFL’s Oakland Raiders was a rebel who embraced Hollywood (and vice-versa) when he moved the team to Los Angeles in 1982. The NFL Hall of Famer had been in failing health with an undisclosed ailment for some time when he died. He was 82. The team won the first and only Super Bowl for…

I’m going to paraphrase one of my favorite Muppet Show lines again: "There is no ratings news this morning.” Because of a slew of NFL local preemptions on all major networks, fast nationals this morning are grossly inflated and will be adjusted downward. So that 3.4/9 demo rating for Big Brother, which would be a…

BREAKING NEWS: That sound you hear are the networks and cable channels (and fans) breathing a sigh of relief because now it looks like there will be football for the fall TV season after all. That is, if the players approve the new collective-bargaining agreement. Today the National Football League team owners…