“THE NFL ON CBS” SCORES HIGHEST-RATED NFL GAME OF WEEKEND
National Window Highlighted by Denver-Seattle Earns Overnight Rating/Share of 16.9/32
CBS Sports’ Week 3 national doubleheader coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Sept. 21, highlighted by Super Bowl XLVIII rematch Denver-Seattle in overtime, was the highest-rated NFL game of the weekend on any network earning an average household rating/share of 16.9/32, up 16% from last year’s 14.6/28 (Indianapolis-San Francisco, Buffao-N.Y. Jets, Jacksonville-Seattle) in the metered markets.
Yesterday’s national game window HH rating/share peaked at 21.0/36 from 7:30-8:00 PM, ET during overtime.
THE NFL ON CBS Week 3 early regional coverage, which included games Houston-N.Y. Giants, Oakland-New England, Baltimore-Cleveland, Indianapolis-Jacksonville, Tennessee-Cincinnati and San Diego-Buffalo earned an average HH rating/share of 11.1/24, up 44% from last year’s 7.7/16 (Houston-Baltimore, Cleveland-Minnesota, San Diego-Tennessee) in the metered markets.
The Sunday Night Football game on NBC between Pittsburgh at Carolina received a 12.3 overnight rating, down 9% from last year’s Week 3 game of Chicago-Pittsburgh.