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ESPN says Monday Night Football has reached nearly 100 million fans during the first half of the NFL season including games and studio shows. In the first nine weeks, 95.4 million fans have watched at least a portion of Monday Night Football.
MNF is averaging 14.4 million viewers through eleven total games. Since 2010, the only season as high as this one through this point of the year was last year. If you remove the three weeks which ESPN did not simulcast on ABC, the average is just under 17 million per game.
The Week 10 matchup featuring the Miami Dolphins and Los Angeles Rams on November 11 generated 12.2 million viewers.
Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli, also known as the ManningCast, is averaging 982,000 viewers through its first seven shows this year. In Week 7, the show achieved its 30th individual episode of averaging at least one million viewers.
Monday Night Countdown is averaging 1.2 million viewers a show leading into Monday Night Football each week, up 3% from last season. Sunday NFL Countdown finished the first half of the season averaging 1.2 million viewers. NFL Live expanded to two hours on Mondays this season and the first hour of the show is up 19% year-over-year compared to the programming that aired in that spot in the 2023 season.
