Sports viewership for Monday, November 27, including big numbers for a low-scoring Monday Night Football game.
The latest edition of NFL Monday Night Football — the 3-8 Bears defeating Minnesota without scoring a single touchdown — averaged a combined 9.7 rating and 17.73 million viewers across ABC (10.09M) and ESPN (7.63M), up 63% in ratings and viewership from Steelers-Colts on ESPN alone last year (6.0, 10.88M) and the most-watched Week 12 edition of MNF since Patriots-Saints in 2009 (21.40M). All ten MNF simulcasts on ABC and ESPN this season have hit at least a nine-year high.
For the third-straight week — and the fifth time in 12 this season — MNF averaged a larger audience than Sunday Night Football the night before (Ravens-Chargers: 8.7, 16.43M). See the full Week 12 ratings breakdown here, or a list of all NFL ratings this season here.
As goes without saying, MNF was the top television program of Monday, November 27. The top non-football sporting event was a Lakers-Sixers NBA game on NBA TV with just 342,000 viewers, up 74% from Warriors-Pelicans last year (197K). The Nuggets-Clippers nightcap was also up big, scoring 247,000 viewers (+31%).
Shifting to the college game, Western Illinois-Wisconsin led the way with just 120,000 viewers on BTN.
Rounding out the live sports slate, USA Network drew 216,000 for a Wolves-Fulham English Premier League match.
Monday, November 27 sports viewership
