Tag: NFL Viewership

"The question isn’t whether Brady can fulfill the agreement. It’s whether, eight years from now, both sides will still believe they should."

"The Football Tax feels like an investment. Every year, football asks fans for a little more, and every year, fans grumble. Every year, we pay it anyway."

"When the measurement system changes every NFL season, eventually the numbers become less useful for answering the question everyone wants to know: Are more people watching?"

"Despite the decline, this ranks as the third-most-watched NFL Draft on record in the event's current three-day format, which began in 2010."

"Roger Goodell isn’t apologizing for wanting more — more games, more viewers, more revenue, more reach. Because as long as fans keep showing up, turning on the television, clicking the stream, and arguing about every call online, the NFL has no reason to slow down."

"The NFL has made everything there so expensive that I think it’s priced a lot of the local stations out of the market."

"The NFC West rivalry rematch, which determined the conference’s representative in the Super Bowl, posted a 4% increase over last season’s NFC Championship Game on FOX."

"The Texans–Patriots matchup, which aired Sunday averaged nearly 38 million viewers and officially became the most-watched event ever carried by ESPN."

"Viewership climbed steadily throughout the broadcast before peaking at 51.284 million viewers during overtime."

"Locally, Chicago topped all markets with a dominant 34.7/66 rating. Los Angeles posted a 16.3/55, marking a 15% increase compared to last season’s Rams-Eagles Divisional Playoff game on NBC."