ESPN had a modest improvement for Giants/Eagles on Monday Night Football.
The Week 6 Giants/Eagles Monday Night Football game drew an 8.7 final rating and 13.9 million viewers on ESPN, up 10% in ratings and 9% in viewership from 49ers/Rams last year (7.9, 12.7M) and up 13% and 16%, respectively, from Colts/Chargers in 2013 (7.7, 12.0M).
The Eagles’ win ranks as the highest rated and most-watched Week 6 MNF telecast since Bears/Cardinals in 2006, the infamous “they are who we thought they were” game (9.6, 14.2M).
Monday’s game peaked with a 10.5 and 16.9 million viewers from 9:45-10 PM ET, the quarter-hour before ESPN aired a much-hyped Star Wars trailer. From 10-10:15 PM, when the trailer actually aired, the telecast had a 9.7 and 15.9 million.
Giants/Eagles ranks as the fifth of seven MNF telecasts this season to have an increase in ratings and/or viewership, but just the second to have increases in both. Overall, it had the third-highest rating and viewership for MNF this season, trailing only Lions/Seahawks in Week 4 (9.0, 14.4M) and Vikings/49ers in Week 1 (8.8, 14.3M).
Coverage aired directly opposite Game 3 of the Royals/Blue Jays ALCS on Fox Sports 1, easily topping that game’s 1.9 rating and 3.0 million viewers.
Among adults 18-49, the game had a 5.2 rating — up 13% from last year (4.6) and up 11% from 2013 (4.7).
(Mon. numbers from ESPN)
