Sugar Bowl upsets 'Sunday Night Football' to hand off sweet ratings victory to ESPN

  • 📰 latimes
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 28 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 15%
  • Publisher: 82%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Four nights of bowl games contribute to ESPN's latest title of the most-watched network.

The Sugar Bowl telecast ended “Sunday Night Football’s” nine-week streak as prime-time television’s top-rated program and helped ESPN finish first in the weekly ratings race.

Washington’s 20-14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles on NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” averaged 16.547 million viewers, second among prime-time programs airing between Dec. 28 and Sunday.Viewership was 9.9% less than the previous week’s “Sunday Night Football” game, a 40-14 victory by the Green Bay Packers over the Tennessee Titans that averaged 18.374 million viewers.

The premiere of the Fox comedy “Call Me Kat” averaged 5.625 million viewers, 15th for the week, fifth among nonsports programs and fourth among entertainment programs.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 11. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.