The Bears' 30-24 win over the Eagles last night on "MNF" earned ESPN a 11.7 metered market rating from 8:30pm-12:00am ET. The rating is up 17% from a 10.0 that the comparative Steelers-Bengals game earned in '10. Last night's game drew a 20.8 rating on ESPN and a 12.5 rating on WCIU-Ind in the Chicago market. The Philadelphia market drew a 19.5 rating on ESPN and a 13.3 mark on WPHL-Ind (THE DAILY).
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE: In N.Y., Bill Carter reported CBS’ moving “The Good Wife” to Sunday nights this season “has resulted in the loss of about 2 million viewers -- and outright frustration for a number of its fans, especially those who make a point to record the episodes on DVRs.” The problem “is one that shows on CBS have lived with for a generation: late-afternoon National Football League games that run past their scheduled broadcast time.” “The Good Wife,” which has a scheduled start time of 9:00pm ET, "has started as late as 9:29pm.” CBS officials said that the net “was trying everything it could think of to alert fans of ‘The Good Wife’ when the show would not be starting on time.” That included “sending a fusillade of messages on the network’s Twitter feed; posting the information on CBS.com and CBS’s Facebook page; messages scrolled every five to six minutes at the bottom of the television screen after the end of the games; and even something called an Eye-Lert, which uses e-mails and text messages to warn subscribers to this CBS service that a show may be delayed” (N.Y. TIMES, 11/8).
DEFENSIVE DAD: Former NFLer Archie Manning said of Fox’ Troy Aikman and Joe Buck criticizing his son, Giants QB Eli Manning: “I don’t always listen to Troy and Joe. They’re kind of hard on Eli. Joe’s always been really tough on Eli, and it seems this year Troy is too. But that’s OK. Sometimes I just mute them” (ESPN.com, 11/7).
