The NFL season started strongly for CBS and FOX in Week 1 and that trend continued in Week 2.
CBS’s national game window, which was led by the Cowboys’ last-second win over the Bengals and the Cardinals’ overtime comeback win against the Raiders, averaged 27.389 million viewers which made it the most-watched NFL on CBS national game window in three years (28.249 million, Dec. 8, 2019 with Kansas City-New England as the high-coverage game). It also accounts for CBS Sports’ most-watched game window in September since 1998 when the NFL returned to CBS.
FOX also had good numbers to report from the weekend as well. The network said that the network’s single-header which featured the Buccaneers beating the Saints in a wild fourth quarter, grabbed 16,228,000 viewers. That combined with Week 1’s numbers mean an average of 15,643,000 viewers and a ratings increase of 1% from last year’s season-to-date average.
