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NBC's Redskins-Seahawks Only NFL Wild Card Game Up In Ratings

NBC's telecast last Saturday afternoon of the Redskins-Seahawks NFC Wild Card game earned a 14.0/27 final Nielsen rating, up 11.1% from a 12.6/26 for Chiefs-Colts last season in the same window, and was the only NFL game of the weekend to see an increase in ratings from comparable games last season.  The Titans-Chargers game on CBS was the highest-rated game of the weekend, earning a 16.7/30, but was down 8.2% from an 18.2/31 for Giants-Eagles in the same window last year on Fox. The following presents all ratings for the NFL Wild Card games last weekend, with comparisons to last season (THE DAILY).

'08 NFL WILD CARD GAMES
DAY
TIME
NET
MATCHUP
RAT.
'07 MATCHUP
NET
'07
RAT.
% +/-
Sat.
4:30-8:00pm
NBC
Redskins-Seahawks
14.0/27
Chiefs-Colts
NBC
12.6/26
11.1%
Sat.
8:15-11:45pm
NBC
Jaguars-Steelers
15.0/25
Cowboys-Seahawks
NBC
16.4/27
-8.5%
Sun.
1:00-4:30pm
Fox
Giants-Buccaneers
15.1/33
Jets-Patriots
CBS
16.1/34
-6.2%
Sun.
4:30-8:00pm
CBS
Titans-
Chargers
16.7/30
Giants-Eagles
Fox
18.2/31
-8.2%

MILWAUKEE'S BEST: TV ratings for Packers games in the Milwaukee market this season averaged a 41.0/67 (362,030 HHs), marking the team's highest average rating in the market since the '02 season, when they averaged a 43.6 rating (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 1/11).

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