2012 Divisional Playoffs Most Watched Ever
by Bruce Raffel on Jan 17, 2012 5:23 PM EST
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Fans continued to make the NFL appointment viewing, resulting in record TV numbers for the Divisional Playoffs. An average of 36.6 million viewers watched the four playoff games last weekend, the most ever for an NFL Divisional Weekend and a four percent increase from last season’s previous record (35.1 million).
Sunday’s New York Giants-Green Bay Packers game on FOX drew and average of 45.1 million viewers to rank as the most-watched Divisional Playoff game ever topping the record set last year by Jets-Patriots (43.5 million viewers). Giants-Packers is the most-watched show since Super Bowl XLV.
Saturday’s New Orleans Saints-San Francisco 49ers on FOX (35.6 million viewers) and Denver Broncos-New England Patriots on CBS (34.2 million viewers) respectively ranked as the most watched Saturday early and late Divisional Playoff games ever.
All four Divisional Playoff games averaged more than 30 million viewers for the second consecutive year and accounted for the four most-watched shows on television last week (chart below).
Most-Watched Shows on Television, Week of Jan. 9-15, 2012
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Program |
Average Viewers |
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1. FOX Sunday Divisional Playoff (Giants-Packers) |
45.1 million |
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2. FOX Saturday Divisional Playoff (Saints-49ers) |
35.6 million |
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3. CBS Saturday Divisional Playoff (Broncos-Patriots) |
34.2 million |
|
31.0 million |
|
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5. ESPN BCS Championship (Alabama-LSU) |
24.2 million |
Source: NFL & The Nielsen Company
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Nice to see good numbers locally too I saw it was almost a million in the locals
The local numbers were huge.
Interesting that the Packs-GMen clash scored DOUBLE the number that the BCS champ game. Shows you how much a real championship means to the viewing public as opposed to that make believe drivel of the BCS.
BCS Game proved not too many
really were interested in that rematch.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Jan 17, 2012 10:19 PM EST up reply actions
true…worried the NFL Mob wants a NY-NE mega market payday. i can’t stand the whole NY-Boston crap. Too bad the O’s stink and can’t bust that up in baseball.
Def true
They want an offensive game. SF/Ravens would disappoint them.
aka 'Rexx'
by Bruce Raffel on Jan 17, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
SF/BAL to me is the most compelling matchup, not just because I’m a fan of us but as a casual viewer I’d be intrigued:
- Brothers pitted against eachother again. A re match winner takes all. Bragging rights in the household for years to come.
- It would breed a whole new inter-conference rivalry between the two teams with Head Coaches as brothers seemingly for as long as they keep winning in their respective cities. Two teams, built from the defense up. It could take over as a marquee Thanksgiving matchup every year. The NFL could make boatloads off of it for years to come and it’d inject some heart warming family values and good natured competition into the league which the NFL would eat up.
- Lewis vs. Willis. All time great vs. Future MLB standard. A “passing of the torch” if you will from one who has his name etched in history and one who aspires to be.
You all get the point, haha.
"Don't throw it, don't throw it, don't throw it. I know y'all going to throw it, they going to throw it anyway. I wouldn't throw it. Don't do it." - Ed Reed
You say tomato, I say tomahto. You say Six, I say Sweep.
by WestminsterRaven on Jan 17, 2012 10:34 PM EST up reply actions
It could be a marquee Thanksgiving matchup every year?
I wouldn’t count on the NFL changing its scheduling rules just for that.
We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.
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