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On the last day of the turbulent 2020-21 television season amidst a year of pandemic and programming chaos, we have once again learned you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the wind and you don’t mess around with the NFL, NCIS or The Masked Singer. Standing on data reminiscent of last year’s results, CB…

After a weird but ultimately successful campaign amid the Covid pandemic last year, the NFL released its full 2021 schedule today. It’s the first one to include the newly added 17th regular-season game for all 32 teams. The slate was revealed live on NFL Network from SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles — site of Super Bowl…

In its debut appearance at the NewFronts, Amazon offered some eye-opening statistics to illustrate its ramped-up efforts in ad-supported video streaming. The company said all of its over-the-top streaming reaches more than 120 million monthly viewers of ad-supported OTT content, up from 20 million viewers in January…

Amazon Prime Video is running a hurry-up offense on its NFL push. The streaming giant said it will begin exclusive carriage of Thursday Night Football in 2022, a year ahead of schedule. The streaming giant paid $1 billion a year to lock up rights in a set of long-term media packages exceeding $100 billion. The league…

The Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders went to overtime last night on Thursday Night Football, which helped spike the ratings for Fox’s midweek primetime game. The Chargers’ overtime victory in the showdown of West(ish) Coast rivals drew a night-leading 2.2 rating and 8.64 million viewers, which is actually…

Fox’s Thursday Night Football game pitting the Los Angeles Rams against the New England Patriots scored a night-leading 2.3 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 9.12 million viewers, returning to action after last week’s game was postponed because of positive Covid-19 tests. The game, a 24-3 Rams win, was the…

Fox’s Thursday Night Football matchup between the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals was the night’s top-rated and most-watched show in broadcast primetime, which also saw the series finale of the CW’s Supernatural wrapping a 15-season run and the Season 3 premiere of ABC’s A Million Little Things. TNF drew a 2.6…

It was a good night for the Indianapolis Colts on Thursday Night Football, but it was a really big night for Grey's Anatomy fans as Patrick Dempsey's McDreamy returned after a five-year absence. Last night the Shonda Rhimes medical drama dedicated its two-hour Season 17 season premiere to frontline healthcare workers…

Fox’s coverage of the Green Bay Packers’ 34-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Thursday Night Football topped a busy night in primetime, which saw its schedule tweaked by ongoing Election 2020 coverage along with the return of ABC’s The Bachelorette and season premieres of CBS’ comedies Young Sheldon, Mom and…

Fox’s coverage of the Atlanta Falcons-Carolina Panthers NFL game on Thursday Night Football lapped the field last night, scoring a 2.2 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drawing 7.93 million viewers. That was tops on a night that included the season finales of a pair of ABC game shows and the return of NBC’s Su…

A Thursday Night Football game that saw the Chicago Bears and Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers go down to the wire helped Fox to the top spot in Thursday’s primetime ratings, with the game scoring a 2.9 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and 10.07 million viewers. The Bears’ victory did see the broadcast well off…

The NFL and Amazon have inked a multi-year extension to their Thursday Night Football deal, which sees the digital giant stream 11 fixtures throughout the season, and has added one exclusive game per year. First signed back in 2017 and extended in 2018, the agreement sees Amazon show the games on digital via Prime…