{"id":160609,"date":"2019-09-11T16:22:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/nfl-week-1-ratings-up-5-over-last-year\/"},"modified":"2019-09-11T16:22:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T13:22:27","slug":"nfl-week-1-ratings-up-5-over-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/nfl-week-1-ratings-up-5-over-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 ratings up 5% over last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe NFL&#8217;s opening weekend to its 100th season delivered strong ratings for all games.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe league and Nielsen said Wednesday there was an average of 17.1 million viewers for games, which is a 5% increase over last year.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nThe New York Giants game against the Dallas Cowboys on Fox averaged 23.9 million, making it the network&#8217;s most-watched opener since 2016.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Night Football&#8221; \u2014 Pittsburgh Steelers at New England Patriots \u2014 as well as the Sept. 5 kickoff game between the Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears each averaged 22.2 million. This is the first time both network games on opening weekend posted increases since 2015.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Monday Night Football&#8221; doubleheader was the most watched in four years. The early game between the Houston Texans and New Orleans Saints was the most-watched program on cable Monday (13 million) while the Denver Broncos-Oakland Raiders game was second (10.6 million).<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nCBS&#8217; games, mostly in the 1 p.m. EDT window, were down 4% from last season.<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p itemprop=\"articleBody\">\nMore AP NFL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NFL and https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\u2014NFL <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/nfl-week-ratings-percent-year-65534358\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The NFL&#8217;s opening weekend to its 100th season delivered strong ratings for all games. The league and Nielsen said Wednesday there was an average of 17.1 million viewers for games, which is a 5% increase over last year. The New York Giants game against the Dallas Cowboys on Fox averaged 23.9 million, making it &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[92514,4898,24460,6152,93511,93512,815,95651,110187,63140,97526,3947,92516,112614],"class_list":["post-160609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tie-world","tag-arts-and-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-media","tag-nfl-football","tag-professional-football","tag-sports","tag-sports-articles","tag-sports-media","tag-sports-news","tag-sports-tv","tag-television","tag-television-programs","tag-television-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}