NFL Sees Best Conference Championship Sunday Audience In 30 Years

The NFL Conference Championship games yesterday averaged 53.7 million viewers across Fox and CBS, marking the most-viewed Conference Championship Sunday since '82, when NBC’s Bengals-Chargers and CBS’ 49ers-Cowboys combined to average 60.2 million viewers. This year’s two games also mark the most-viewed programs on all of TV since the Super Bowl last February. Fox finished with a 30.6 rating and 57.6 million viewers, marking the third-highest viewership ever for an NFL Conference Championship game. Giants-49ers is up 8% and 5%, respectively, from a 28.3 rating and 54.9 million viewers for the comparable Steelers-Jets AFC Championship on CBS in the late window last year, and up 9% and 11%, respectively, from the Packers-Bears NFC Championship in the early window (THE DAILY).