Thursday Night Football ratings were decent, but nothing special, in Week 14.
Saints-Falcons had an 8.9 rating and 14.61 million viewers on NBC and NFL Network Thursday night, up a tick in ratings but down slightly in viewership from NBC’s fourth TNF simulcast last season, Rams-Seahawks in Week 15 (8.8, 14.65M).
Including the streaming audience of 466,000 — 356,000 on Amazon Prime alone — viewership actually increased from last year (from 14.9 to 15.0 million).
Compared to last year’s Week 14 edition of TNF, Raiders-Chiefs on NBC and NFL Network, ratings fell 15% from a 10.5 and viewership 16% from 17.4 million. With streaming included, viewership still declined 16% (from 17.8M to 15.0M).
Atlanta’s win, which peaked with 16.6 million viewers from 11:15 PM ET through the conclusion, ranks fourth out of nine TNF simulcasts this season. Only games involving the Cowboys (vs. Washington: 15.6M), Patriots (at Tampa Bay: 15.4M) and Packers (vs. Chicago: 14.6M) have done better.
In adults 18-49, Thursday’s 4.3 rating ranks only sixth out of the nine simulcasts.
New Orleans led all markets with a 46.1 rating. Atlanta was a distant second at a 22.3, with Richmond, Va. (15.1), Minneapolis-St. Paul (14.2) and Albuquerque, N.M. (13.6) rounding out the top five.
The 2017 NFL ratings chart is available here.
