Fox Sports recently announced it hired former NFL Pro Bowl quarterback Jay Cutler as game analyst for the 2017 NFL season, joining their No. 2 broadcast grouping of play-by-announcer Kevin Burkhardt, analyst Charles Davis and sideline reporter Pam Oliver. Cutler spent 11 years in the NFL, the first 3 of which with the Denver Broncos […]
ESPN won Thursday night among all networks in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos, thanks to the “2017 NFL Draft.” On television, the telecast peaked in the 9-9:30 p.m. ET half hour with a 4.6 rating and 7.779 million viewers. For the fourth consecutive year, Cleveland was the highest-rated metered market […]
The National Football League (NFL) announced on Thursday, April 20 its weekly schedule for the 2017 regular season, which runs from September 7 through December 31, 2017. Jump to: Thursdays, Sundays, Mondays Jump to: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week […]
For the 2017 NFL season, Amazon will be the official live streaming service for the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football,” as first reported by Sports Business Journal’s John Ourand on Tuesday, Apr. 4. Amazon and NFL agreed to a one-year deal to livestream the 10 “TNF” games carried by CBS and NBC on television, beating out […]
CBS announced on Tuesday, April 4 that former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo will become the network’s lead NFL game analyst beginning with the 2017-2018 NFL season. Romo, who played for 14 years with the Dallas Cowboys, will join Jim Nantz and Tracy Wolfson on the lead announcing team for CBS’s coverage of THE NFL […]
CBS topped Sunday night in total viewers (9.23 million). ESPN was the prime time leader in key demos: adults 18-49 (approx. 2.2 rating), adults 18-34 (approx. 1.9 rating), and adults 25-54 (approx. 2.5 rating) which included coverage of NFL’s “AFC-NFC Pro Bowl.” The All-Star game itself delivered 7.45 million viewers, a 4.19 U.S. household rating […]
The NFL playoffs led to NBC and Fox each drawing at least 20 million viewers apiece in Sunday prime time. A weather delay pushed the Pittsburgh-Kansas City AFC Divisional Playoff from the afternoon into prime time on NBC and provided the network that normally airs “Sunday Night Football” huge ratings dividends, drawing the largest audience […]
CBS was the dominant network on Saturday night with the AFC Divisional Playoff matchup between the Houston Texans and the New England Patriots. CBS tripled the prime time viewership (28.98 million vs. 9.63 million) and almost quadrupled the prime time adults 18-49 delivery (9.0 rating vs. 2.4 rating) of ABC, NBC and Fox combined. Nonetheless, […]
What follows are the fast affiliate results for Sunday, January 15, 2017 broken out by network and by each half-hour: Prime Averages Network Viewers (000) Adults 18-49 25460 8.2/24 21643 7.2/21 6997 0.8/2 3572 0.7/2 Sunday, January 15, 2017 7:00 PROGRAM Viewers (000) Adults 18-49 America’s Funniest Home Videos 3970 0.4/1 60 Minutes 7226 […]
