Sports telecasts during Thanksgiving weekend were dominated by NFL and college football telecasts. Other non-football program over the holiday weekend included the Rangers-Bruins matchup this past Friday. That game on NBC earned a 1.1 overnight rating from 1:00-4:00pm ET. NBC also saw once of it lower-rated EPL matches of the season with Newcastle-West Brom on Saturday (0.5 rating). The net also earned an 8.2 overnight for its annual coverage of the National Dog Show on Thanksgiving, up 8% from '12.
The charts below list overnight ratings for sports-related telecasts from Thanksgiving weekend.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| "Fox NFL Special" |
11/28
|
Fox
|
11:30am-12:30pm
|
3.4
|
| "NFL on Fox": Packers-Lions |
11/28
|
Fox
|
12:30-4:30pm
|
14.1
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/28
|
CBS
|
4:00-4:30pm
|
6.8
|
| "NFL on CBS": Raiders-Cowboys |
11/28
|
CBS
|
4:30-8:00pm
|
14.8
|
| National Dog Show |
11/28
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
8.2
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/28
|
NBC
|
8:00-8:30pm
|
5.6
|
| "Sunday Night Football on Thanksgiving": Steelers-Ravens |
11/28
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:45pm
|
11.8
|
| College Football: Iowa-Nebraska |
11/29
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
2.3
|
| College Football: Miami-Pitt |
11/29
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:00pm
|
1.4
|
| College Football: Washington State-Washington |
11/29
|
Fox
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
1.4
|
| NHL: Rangers-Bruins |
11/29
|
NBC
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
1.1
|
| College Football: Ohio State-Michigan |
11/30
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:45pm
|
6.4
|
| College Football: Georgia-Georgia Tech |
11/30
|
ABC
|
3:45-7:15pm
|
2.3
|
| College Football: UCLA-USC |
11/30
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
2.6
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing |
11/30
|
CBS
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.3
|
| "College Football Special" |
11/30
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "College Football Today" |
11/30
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.0
|
| College Football: Alabama-Auburn |
11/30
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
8.6
|
| College Football: Notre Dame-Stanford |
11/30
|
Fox
|
7:00-10:30pm
|
2.2
|
| EPL: Newcastle-West Brom |
11/30
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.5
|
| College Football: Southern-Grambling |
11/30
|
NBC
|
2:30-6:30pm
|
0.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
12/1
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.5
|
| "NFL on CBS": (regional) |
12/1
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
12.0
|
| "NFL on CBS": Broncos-Chiefs (86%) |
12/1
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:30pm
|
17.4
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
12/1
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.9
|
| "NFL on Fox": (single) |
12/1
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
10.8
|
| "Dew Tour Preview" |
12/1
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.4
|
| Skiing: Nature Valley Raptor: Women's Giant Slalom |
12/1
|
NBC
|
2:30-4:00pm
|
0.5
|
| Figure Skating: Holiday Moments on Ice |
12/1
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.0
|
| "Football Night in America" |
12/1
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
4.0
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Giants-Redskins |
12/1
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:15pm
|
12.1
|
