Thursday, October 12, 2006

NFL Rules Ratings again...

NFL TOPS RATINGS IN 20 LOCAL NFL MARKETS





COWBOYS-EAGLES SECOND MOST-WATCHED PROGRAM OF WEEK



NFL games topped the local ratings in 20 of 29 NFL markets* last week (*New Orleans data excluded by Nielsen). Against strong competition, NFL games ranked first 20 times vs. Major League Baseball’s Division Series games, which topped the ratings in two NFL markets.



NFL games compared favorably in local ratings to other sports and prime-time competition:



Program
# of NFL markets Ranked #1

NFL Football
20

CSI
2

MLB Playoffs
2




The Sunday late afternoon Cowboys-Eagles game on FOX was the second-most watched show of the week against all programming with 22.1 million viewers (Grey’s Anatomy was first with 22.8 million). By comparison, the most-watched MLB playoff game last week was Tigers-Yankees ALDS Game 1 on FOX (8.4 million viewers).

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