Thursday Night Football scored another strong audience and (as goes without saying) dominated sports viewership for Thursday, November 16
Bengals-Ravens averaged 12.92 million viewers on the latest edition of NFL Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video, the fifth-largest TNF audience of the season and sixth-largest since the series moved to Amazon last year. The Ravens’ win dominated the rest of television with easily the largest audience of November 16.
Additional data on the TNF game is available here.
Outside of the NFL, the United States-Trinidad & Tobago Concacaf Nations League match was the top sporting event of the day with a combined audience of 1.22 million across TNT (348K) and Telemundo and Universo (869K). The Argentina-Uruguay lead-in averaged 973,000 on Telemundo and Universo.
ESPN’s Boston College-Pittsburgh college football game averaged 1.03 million, up 34% from SMU-Tulane last year (767K). Its lead out, a Top Rank Boxing match between Shakur Stevenson and Edwin De Los Santos, averaged 655,000 — up from the previous Top Rank card on ESPN last month (602K).
Shifting to basketball, Thunder-Warriors was the day’s top game with 463,000 viewers on NBA TV. Kansas State’s upset of Iowa in women’s college basketball ranked second with 415,000 on FS1. In the respective lead-ins, Nets-Heat drew 291,000 and Maryland-UConn 244,000.
Practice for the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix averaged 407,000 viewers on ESPN2.
Thursday, November 16 sports viewership
