Delayed from Sunday night due to inclement weather, Tuesday’s Vikings/Eagles game earned one of NBC’s ten largest NFL audiences since reacquiring rights to the league.
The Vikings’ win over the Eagles drew a 13.8 final rating and 23.7 million viewers on NBC Tuesday night, up 27% in ratings and 25% in viewership from Week 16 last year (DAL/WSH: 10.9, 19.042 mil), and up 20% and 26%, respectively, from Week 16 in 2008 (CAR/NYG: 11.5, 18.858 mil).
This marks the seventh-most viewed NFL regular season game on NBC since the network resumed airing games in the 2006-07 season. Eight of the network’s ten most-viewed games have come this season alone.
NFL games on NBC have topped 20 million viewers on eleven separate occasions this season, topping last year’s full-season total of seven.
As mentioned above, Tuesday’s game was originally scheduled for Sunday night, but was pushed back due to blizzard conditions in Philadelphia. The game was the first Tuesday night NFL game since 1946.
With just one telecast to go, NBC is averaging a 13.1 rating and at least 21.9 million viewers, up 11% in ratings and 12% in viewership from last year (11.8, 19.6 mil), and up 27% and 32%, respectively, from 2008 (10.3, 16.7 mil).
An NBC press release has the network averaging either 21.9 or 22.0 million viewers for NFL coverage.
(NBC press release from Fang’s Bites)
