Large National football league finale for NBC

The p facto playoff game between your NY Titans and Dallas Cowboys on Sunday obtained large for NBC. Football and New Year's Eve festivities outlined the rankings race for that final week of the season, which saw only two original series telecasts around the Large Four. NBC gone to live in charge in key demos on the effectiveness of the finale of "Sunday Evening Football," which came the biggest audience for just about any primetime regular-season National football league game in fifteen years. ESPN increased to second among teenagers using its final "Monday Evening Football" game of year along with a string of school football bowl games through the week. Excluding sports, the greatest factor happening a week ago was ABC's New Year's Eve coverage, which plastic box large amounts using its annual "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest" (4.1/15 in grown ups 18-49, 12.92 million audiences overall) as well as an earlier, two-hour special commemorating the event's 40-year history around the internet (2.5/9, 8.36m). ABC centered coverage that evening (Daily Variety, Jan. 2), using the segment that incorporated the night time shedding from the ball in Occasions Square bringing in nearly 23 million audiences. Overall for that gently viewed 12 ,. 25-31 frame, NBC won in grown ups 18-49 having a 2. rating/6 share, then ESPN and CBS (both at 1.7/5), Univision (1.4/4), ABC (1.3/4) and Fox (1./3). The Peacock also won in grown ups 25-54 (2.5/6 to two.3/6 for CBS), as the Eye came probably the most overall audiences (8.two million to six.3 million for runner-up NBC). At NBC, the p facto playoff game between your NY Titans and Dallas Cowboys on "Sunday Evening Football" averaged a boffo 9.8 rating/24 be part of grown ups 18-49 and 27.62 million audiences overall. It edges the National football league Thursday opener of last season (27.5 million for Vikings-Saints) being the greatest regular-season primetime telecast since a game between your Cowboys and Eco-friendly Bay Packers came 35.a million on ABC in November 1996. Oddly, it had been basically the 4th best 18-49 score to have an National football league game on NBC this year -- behind its first three games of year in September. Once the Titans and Cowboys met three days previously NBC, the overall game did an identical 9.4 demo rating and 24.52 million audiences overall. This time around around -- without any school or work the following day for many -- about a million more kids 2-11 and a pair of million more grown ups 50-plus updated in. ESPN's large week began using the "Monday Evening Football" game between your Atlanta Falcons and Saints (5.6/16 in 18-49, 15.64m) as well as incorporated nfl and college football bowl games around the next five nights. Best amounts came for Thursday's Alamo Bowl (2.1/7, 6.92m for Baylor-Washington) and Saturday's Chick-Fil-A Bowl (1.7/5, 6.16m for Virginia-Auburn). There were not many series highlights for that week, with NBC's Monday gameshow "Who's Still Standing?" (1.5/4, 6.16m) and Friday drama "Chuck" (.8/3, 3.07m) the only real originals airing. CBS skedded its annual "Kennedy Center Honors" telecast for Tuesday behind a repeat "NCIS" (2.1/6, 12.58m), however it settled for any 1.1/3 in 18-49 and 8.4 million total audiences -- lower dramatically within the demo from last year's 1.5/4. Cable saw some original programming at the start of a few days, including instances of TNT's Monday dramas "The Closer" (1.1/3, 6.16m) and "Rizzoli and Isles" (1.1/3, 5.79m) and hot reality shows "Pawn Stars" on History (1.9/5, 5.23m) and "Teen Mother II" on MTV (1.9/5, 3.42m). Contact Ron Kissell at ron.kissell@variety.com