Michigan State's last-second win over Michigan on Saturday helped ESPN to its most-watched October college football game in more than 20 years. The game averaged 7.39 million viewers in the 3:30pm ET window, the net's best since a Florida State-Miami game in '94 drew 7.67 million. The game was also the most-watched college matchup of the weekend across all networks. ESPN's primetime broadcast of LSU's win over Florida garnered 6.77 million viewers, helping the net to its third most-watched regular-season college football Saturday ever.
SUNDAY FUNDAY: NBC's "SNF" telecasts through six weeks are averaging 24.1 million viewers, the best for the NFL's Sunday primetime broadcast package in 19 years (24.5 million in '96). Viewership for "SNF" is up 10% over this point in '14. Meanwhile, NBC's "Football Night In America" is averaging 9.8 million viewers to date, up 20% over '14 and the best start in the show's 10-year history. CBS through six weeks of the NFL season is averaging 18.9 million viewers, up 6% over '14 and the net's most for the AFC TV package through this point in the season since '87.
The charts below list final audience figures from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
RAT.
|
| NFL: Chargers-Packers (81%) |
10/18
|
CBS
|
4:46-7:54pm
|
25,027
|
14.5
|
| Sunday Night Football: Patriots-Colts |
10/18
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:45pm
|
22,800
|
13.0
|
| NFL: (regional) |
10/18
|
CBS
|
1:03-4:27pm
|
18,324
|
10.9
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
10/18
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
17,900
|
10.6
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/18
|
NBC
|
7:57-8:22pm
|
12,000
|
6.8
|
College football: Penn State-
Ohio State |
10/17
|
ABC
|
8:06-11:39pm
|
5,867
|
3.3
|
College football: Alabama-
Texas A&M |
10/17
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:22pm
|
5,761
|
3.6
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
10/18
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
4,481
|
2.9
|
| College football: USC-Notre Dame |
10/17
|
NBC
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
4,000
|
2.5
|
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
Hollywood Casino 400 (Kansas) |
10/18
|
NBC
|
2:40-5:36pm
|
4,000
|
2.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
10/18
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:03pm
|
3,949
|
2.6
|
| College football: (regional) |
10/17
|
ABC
|
12:01-3:38pm
|
3,311
|
2.3
|
| College football: Oklahoma-Kansas State |
10/17
|
ABC
|
3:35-6:51pm
|
1,565
|
1.1
|
| "NASCAR Countdown to Green" |
10/18
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:13pm
|
1,300
|
0.9
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/17
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1,165
|
0.8
|
| Premier Boxing Champions |
10/17
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1,100
|
0.7
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
10/18
|
Fox
|
11:00am-
12:00pm
|
1,096
|
0.7
|
| "Monster Energy Supercross" |
10/18
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1,056
|
0.7
|
| EPL: Watford-Arsenal |
10/17
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
735
|
0.5
|
| "STIHL Timbersports Series" |
10/18
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
625
|
0.4
|
| Lucas Oil Drag Boat Racing Series |
10/17
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
577
|
0.4
|
| "Red Bull Series: Romaniacs" |
10/17
|
NBC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
414
|
0.3
|
| "World of X Games: Pipe Dream" |
10/18
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
380
|
0.3
|
| "PGA Tour: Year in Review" |
10/18
|
NBC
|
12:30-1:30pm
|
314
|
0.3
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| "Monday Night Football": Steelers-Chargers |
10/12
|
ESPN
|
8:15-11:43pm
|
12,182
|
| NLCS: Cubs-Mets Game 1 |
10/17
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:13pm
|
7,891
|
| College football: Michigan State-Michigan |
10/17
|
ESPN
|
3:28-7:24pm
|
7,398
|
| NLDS: Mets-Dodgers Game 5 |
10/15
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:31pm
|
7,384
|
| College football: Florida-LSU |
10/17
|
ESPN
|
7:24-10:46pm
|
6,777
|
| NLCS: Cubs-Mets Game 2 |
10/18
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:27pm
|
6,567
|
| NLDS: Mets-Dodgers Game 4 |
10/13
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:06pm
|
6,347
|
| NLDS: Cubs-Cardinals Game 4 |
10/13
|
TBS
|
4:30-8:00pm
|
6,179
|
| ALDS: Royals-Astros Game 5 |
10/14
|
FS1
|
8:00-10:53pm
|
5,944
|
| NLDS: Cubs-Cardinals Game 3 |
10/12
|
TBS
|
6:01-9:37pm
|
5,784
|
