The Minnesota Vikings’ 20-13 victory over the Green Bay Packers for the NFC North title on “Sunday Night Football” easily gave NBC a Sunday night victory. It delivered a +17 percent viewership increase from the 20.7 million viewers for 2014’s Week 17 SNF “AFC North Championship Game” (Pittsburgh’s 27-17 win over Cincinnati), which was also […]
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The National Football League announced its postseason television schedule on Sunday, January 3. Let the games begin… #NFLPlayoffs pic.twitter.com/DWB9yjQw21 — NFL (@NFL) January 4, 2016 [socialpoll id=”2157963″ type=”set”] Wild Card weekend marks the kickoff to the NFL postseason on Jan. 9-10. ESPN and ABC will simulcast the first game of these playoffs: Kansas City Chiefs […]
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It was not only a lopsided victory for the Minnesota Vikings over the New York Giants on “Sunday Night Football” — NBC won this final Sunday of 2015 by far, despite its marquee program drawing its least-watched game of its season. Follow @SonOfTheBronx If you can see this text, your browser does not support iframes. […]
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Of the most meaningful games in this, the final week of the regular season: if the New York Jets defeat the Buffalo Bills and their ex-coach Rex Ryan, they automatically clinch a playoff spot; the Pittsburgh Steelers will be rooting for the Bills to win and they hope to defeat the Browns in Cleveland to […]
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Of the games with the most playoff implications: Washington and Philadelphia battle for first place in the NFC Least, er… East on NFL Network in a Saturday night matchup on Dec. 26; AFC East leader New England Patriots go to the Meadowlands to face playoff contender and division rival New York Jets on CBS in […]
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NBC was Thursday’s most-watched network — a rarity in recent years — with its holiday specials “Michael Buble’s Christmas in Hollywood” (Women 18-34: 0.8/3; Men 18-34: 0.6/3; Women 18-49: 1.4/5; Men 18-49: 0.9/3) and the telemovie “Coat of Many Colors” (Women 18-34: 1.3/5; Men 18-34: 0.9/4; Women 18-49: 2.3/7; Men 18-49: 1.3/5) . NBC has […]
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“The Wiz Live!,” the third live musical on NBC since 2013 was, not surprisingly, the top televised special on Twitter and most tweeted-about telecast overall for the week of Nov. 30. According to Nielsen, the Dec. 3 live telecast totaled 1.64 million tweets written by 279,000 unique authors, which were seen by a unique audience […]