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It took a bit of time, but the still-unbeaten New England Patriots certainly schooled the young bucks of the New York Giants on Thursday Night Football during an overall steady night on the Big 4 and the CW. In fact, three weeks into the season, the dust appears to have settled on Thursday, with very little ratings…

The “will he or won’t he” appears to be settled — for this season, at least. Rob Gronkowski, the all-timer tight end who won three Super Bowls with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots before retiring after last season, has joined Fox Sports as an NFL analyst. Amid speculation that he might come back to the league…

UPDATE, 5:33 PM: Network sources are still insisting that they haven’t received the ratings information that they expected from Nielsen, but the data company says they delivered what they promised for this first day of expanded measurements. “All PPM market data was delivered to clients today,” a spokesperson for…

UPDATED: The Seattle Seahawks fought hard for their 30-29 victory over the Los Angeles Rams last night in what was a thriller of Thursday Night Football that delivered a nightly ratings win for the network. On the entertainment side, most series held steady week-to-week, with new shows still low in Live+Same Day…

If NBC didn't already have a lot of love for the Dallas Cowboys, the Comcast-owned net should be sending America's Team chocolates and roses today. Thanks to a record-breaking Sunday Night Football viewership on September 29, NBC has broken CBS' decade long hold on scoring the largest audience for the Fall season premi…

UPDATED, 12:55 PM: It may have been the matchup, it may have been the drama in the Philadelphia Eagles' 34-27 win over the Green Bay Packers, or it may have been all of the above. Regardless, the debut of Thursday Night Football this season on Fox was a rocket-fueled lift-off for the network as Premiere Week started…

The NFL is out with the schedule for its 100th-anniversary regular season. Check out the list of all 2019 primetime, Thanksgiving and international games below. The regular season again will kick off on a Thursday night. But in a departure from recent years, the defending Super Bowl champion won’t be playing in it…

Departing from its usual custom of allowing the Super Bowl champions to host the opening game of the following season, the NFL said its 100th season will open with the league’s oldest rivalry, between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers. NBC will host the contest on Thursday, September 5, under a rights deal that…

After the national anthem controversy took a toll on NFL last fall, pushing down TV ratings, the games’ performance recovered in 2018, with the main football franchises all posting year-to-year gains. The recently concluded 13th season of NBC’s Sunday Night Football drew an average of 19.3 million Live+same day…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight’s season and likely series finale of Murphy Brown If the revived Murphy Brown is really and truly ending for good with tonight's Season 11 finale, creator Diane English made sure the Emmy winning journalism comedy went out with a mix of fictionalized bigwigs and…

In the kind of game that makes football fans proud of their devotion, it came down to the final minutes in last night's matchup between the Los Angeles Chargers and the Kansas City Chiefs in the final Thursday Night Football of the season on Fox. At the end, and after some verbal flubs by ESPN's Stephen A. Smith…

UPDATED with additional ratings: If last night's Thursday Night Football blowout of the Jacksonville Jaguars by the Tennessee Titans proves anything, it’s that what goes up also goes down. Fueled by a triumphant and NFL history-making performance by running back Derrick Henry, the Volunteer State team crushed the…