Revenue and viewership have never been higher. What a perfect time for a labor dispute!
Oleg_Huzwog
This basically. There are some crazy numbers like the Super bowl viewrship, but this stat from this article is mind boggling
An NFL game was the most-watched show among all programs in each of the season's 17 weeks, and league games accounted for the 19 most-watched TV shows among all programming last fall as well as 28 of the top 30. this article
Also I saw somehere Monday Night Football averaged 14 million viewers this season (which puts it right around 10th place in ALL programming) and had several spots in the top 10 cable-programs of all time (at one point the game was all Monday Night Football games (not all from this year, all though several were), and only the Rose Bowl and BCS National Championship displaced MNF having all 10 of the top spots)
Revenue and viewership have never been higher. What a perfect time for a labor dispute!
Boston_Boyy
This basically. There are some crazy numbers like the Super bowl viewrship, but this stat from this article is mind boggling
An NFL game was the most-watched show among all programs in each of the season's 17 weeks, and league games accounted for the 19 most-watched TV shows among all programming last fall as well as 28 of the top 30. this article
Also I saw somehere Monday Night Football averaged 14 million viewers this season (which puts it right around 10th place in ALL programming) and had several spots in the top 10 cable-programs of all time (at one point the game was all Monday Night Football games (not all from this year, all though several were), and only the Rose Bowl and BCS National Championship displaced MNF having all 10 of the top spots)
I guess not everyone wants to watch "Two and a Half Men".
The night games were awful this year, there were only a couple of standouts like Packers vs Vikings.
CJL13
That's because some teams didn't live up to expectations this year *looks at Cowboys and Vikings*
Well the Patriots-Jets and the Eagles-Redskins match were supposed to be big...
but the Ravens - Jets / Vikings - Jets were. With the Ravens game, you had Rex Ryan and Ray Lewis talking building hype. With the Vikings game you had Favre return to Jets with Randy Moss on his side to help Favre set a record. Both were great games that went all the way down to the wire.
The night games were awful this year, there were only a couple of standouts like Packers vs Vikings.
CJL13
That's because some teams didn't live up to expectations this year *looks at Cowboys and Vikings*
Well the Patriots-Jets and the Eagles-Redskins match were supposed to be big...
I'll give you Patriots Jets... but the Eagles vs Redskins was a GREAT GAME. Sure, it was basically legalized murder on the field, but we got to witness one of the most dominating performances in a game. What the Eagles did in that game was must watch TV. To illustrate how dominate the Eagles were in that game the most points scored in a regular season game was 72 (ironically by the Redskins). In that game the Redskins scored only 48 points in the first 3 quarters. The Eagles scored 45 by the end of the half and rested their starters in the 4th.
I was listening on Mike and Mike this morning and they were saying that this 111 million is a misrepresentation of the number of people who actually watched at least some of the game. This 111 million is the number of people who were watching at any one minute of the game. But about 160 million people actually tuned in. And that could also be under the true number if you consider the groups of people watching in bars or crowded around one TV. Probably closer to 200 million actually saw parts of the game.
That's what i always wonder, how do they come up with these numbers, also i heard DVRed shows didn't count for a while until now they call it "timeshifted" viewers, it should have counted always! DVR and never go back and never watch commercials again sucka!
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