Though the numbers were not impressively high — at least for Sunday Night Football — NBC hit a three-year high in overnights for Sunday’s Bears/49ers game.
The Week 2 Bears/49ers Sunday Night Football game drew a 14.0 overnight rating on NBC, up 3% from a delayed 49ers/Seahawks game last year (13.6), up a tick from Lions/49ers in 2012 (13.9), and the highest for SNF in Week 2 of the season since Eagles/Falcons in 2011 (15.7).
The Bears trailed Sunday’s game 17-0 at one point before coming back to win in the fourth quarter. It marked the second straight Sunday night game in which an early blowout turned into a proverbial nail-biter.
SNF earned the second-highest overnight of Week 2, edging Thursday Night Football on CBS and NFL Network (13.7) and trailing Sunday’s NFL national window on CBS alone (14.6).
(Sun. numbers from Sports Business Daily)
