Thursday Night Football ratings were the highest in two years.
FOX and NFL Network scored a combined 10.0 rating and 16.8 million viewers for the Week 11 Packers-Seahawks Thursday Night Football game, up 6% in ratings and 8% in viewership from the eighth TNF simulcast last season (Week 13 Washington-Dallas: 9.4, 15.6M) but down 5% and 3% respectively from the eighth simulcast in 2016 (Week 14 Raiders-Chiefs: 10.5, 17.4M).
Versus last year’s Week 11 edition of TNF, Titans-Steelers, ratings increased 22% (from 8.2) and viewership 25% (from 13.5M).
The Seahawks’ win ranks as the highest rated and most-watched Thursday Night Football game of the season, surpassing the previous marks of 8.9 (three games) and 14.75 million (Panthers-Steelers).
Going back further, it was the highest rated game in the TNF package since Raiders-Chiefs in ’16, and the most-watched since Steelers-Texans on Christmas Day last year (16.9M).
Including viewership on streaming and Spanish-language outlets, the game had 17.5 million viewers.
Packers-Seahawks scored a 5.0 rating in adults 18-49 (+6%), the highest for a TNF game since Week 5 last season (Patriots-Buccaneers: 5.1). It also had a 3.9 in adults 18-34 (+11%) and a 5.9 in adults 25-54 (+4%). Comparisons are to last year’s eighth simulcast.
So far this season, three of the Packers’ four primetime games have posted an increase in ratings and viewership. The lone exception was their Week 1 Sunday Night Football win against the Bears, which slipped from last year’s comparable Giants-Cowboys game.
[Numbers from NFL Communications 11.16, Programming Insider 11.16]
