Thursday Night Football hit a season-low for a lopsided matchup of the Broncos and Saints.
The latest edition of NFL Thursday Night Football (Broncos-Saints) averaged 9.81 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, marking the least-watched TNF game this season. The first five windows had each topped the 12 million mark, the longest-such streak for TNF in the Amazon era.
The Broncos’ easy win — which peaked with 11.72 million viewers in the 9:15 PM ET quarter-hour — still increased a fraction of a percent from Jaguars-Saints last year (9.79M) to rank as the most-watched Week 7 edition of TNF since the series last aired on broadcast television in 2021.
Broncos-Saints dominated the competing Major League Baseball games, Yankees-Guardians on TBS and truTV (4.3M) and Dodgers-Mets on FS1 (4.0M). The baseball competition was not dramatically stronger than the prior week, when TNF had a substantially stronger 13.18 million opposite Yankees-Royals (3.5M) and Guardians-Tigers (3.4M).
TNF is now averaging 13.31 million viewers this season, up 3% from the same point last year (12.91M) and the highest average for TNF at this point of the season since CBS and NFL Network averaged 13.60 million in 2016. (Keep in mind during its broadcast network era, TNF typically kicked off its season with a couple of games exclusively on NFL Network.)
The series continues to average a lower median age (47.4) than any of the linear NFL broadcasters (54.9) or primetime broadcast television generally (62.5).
