With the Packers up 42 at halftime, overnight ratings hit an unsurprising season-low for Sunday Night Football.
The Week 10 Bears/Packers Sunday Night Football game drew an 11.1 overnight rating on NBC, down 15% from Cowboys/Saints last year (13.0), down 19% from Texans/Bears in 2012 (13.7), and the network’s lowest overnight of the season. The previous low was an 11.4 for Packers/Saints vs. the World Series in Week 8. NBC has now hit a new season low in three of the past five weeks.
For the third straight week, Sunday Night Football drew a lower overnight than the NFL singleheader window (11.2). It came nowhere close to the NFL national window (15.6), which has topped SNF in every week this season.
Green Bay won Sunday’s game by 41 points and led 42-0 at halftime — the largest halftime margin ever for a primetime NFL game, according to NBC. It was the seventh straight SNF game decided by at least 20 points.
Milwaukee was the top market for Sunday’s game, with a 49.2 rating. Chicago (26.3), Las Vegas (19.7), Minneapolis (15.5) and Sacramento (13.2) rounded out the top five.
(Sun. numbers from NBC Sports via The Futon Critic)
