FOX Sports averaged 24 million viewers for its broadcast of an intra-conference matchup between the Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills. The Week 14 game was the most-watched telecast of the week on any network as the league continues to attain stellar ratings through the regular season. Play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt, analyst Tom Brady and sideline reporters Erin Andrews and Tom Rinaldi were on the call for this game and are expected to broadcast Super Bowl LX from Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La. in February. The matchup is up by about 41% compared to last year’s Week 14 game between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers, which averaged 17.03 million viewers with an 8.6 household rating.
The network’s America’s Game of the Week broadcast has averaged 25.1 million viewers throughout the regular season, representative of a 5% year-over-year increase and its best metric since 2016, according to data from Nielsen Media Research. FOX Sports recently presented a Thanksgiving Day game between the Dallas Cowboys and New York Giants that averaged 38.8 million viewers, indicative of the most-watched NFL regular season game of the season and fourth most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on record. The FOX Sports America’s Game of the Week franchise heads to Philadelphia, Pa. for an interstate rivalry between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles for Week 15 action on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 4:25 p.m. EST.
Following the conclusion of this game, an AFC tilt between the Los Angeles Chargers and Kansas City Chiefs commenced from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo. The presentation of the matchup, airing on NBC Sports and Peacock, averaged a total audience delivery of 22.8 million viewers. Kansas City clinched the AFC West on a game-winning field goal to defeat the Chargers by a final score of 19-17, marking the organization’s ninth straight division title. The broadcast represented the eighth Sunday Night Football game this season to average more than 22 million viewers, tying last season for the most such occurrences through Week 14 since the 2015 season.
Play-by-play announcer Mike Tirico, analyst Cris Collinsworth and sideline reporter Melissa Stark were on site to broadcast the game. The Week 14 Sunday Night Football game last year between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys averaged 26.3 million viewers and was up 57% year-over-year. NBC Sports heads to Lumen Field in Seattle, Wash. for its Week 15 Sunday Night Football broadcast when the Seattle Seahawks host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday, Dec. 15 at 8:20 p.m. EST.
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