Ratings Roundup: FOX Sports Scores with Phillies NLCS Clincher, Monday Night Football Averages 15.3 Million Viewers through Week 7
Ratings Roundup is a rundown of recent rating news and is derived from press releases and reports around the industry. In this week’s edition, FOX Sports Scores with Phillies NLCS Win Over Padres, Monday Night Football Averaging 15.3 Million Viewers through First Seven Weeks and more.
FOX Sports Scores with Phillies NLCS Win Over Padres
Season-to-Date: Monday Night Football Averaging 15.3 Million Viewers through First Seven Weeks of Joe Buck and Troy Aikman’s Debut Season, Up Double-Digits Year-Over-Year
ESPN’s Monday Night Football season-to-date viewership is up in multiple ways as the mid-way point of the season approaches, inclusive of Chicago-New England matchup in Week 7 (October 24, 8:15 p.m. ET).
Across all networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes), nearly 12 million viewers tuned into the Bears-Patriots presentation, outpacing five of the last six MNF Week 7 matchups (2016-22). The audience of 11.9 million viewers is up 5% from each of the Week 7 games dating back to 2016, sans last season’s game which featured a 13-10 Saints victory in Seattle, compared to this season’s 19-point Bears win over the Patriots.
Monday Night Football Up Double Digits
Season-to-date, the 2022 Monday Night Football season is averaging 15.3 million viewers for the six weeks it has presented a standalone 8:15 p.m. kickoff (six games – Week 1, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7), up 11% from 2021 season through seven weeks (seven games).
In Week 2, which is not included in the above season-to-date viewership, Monday Night Football featured two games with staggered kickoffs (7:15 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.). During that special presentation, which will become a staple of Monday Night Football beginning next season, Disney Networks averaged 20.6 million viewers when Tennessee-Buffalo and Minnesota-Philadelphia were shown simultaneously during a two-hour period (8:30 – 10:30 p.m.). Inclusive of both games’ average minute audience in Week 2, Monday Night Football’s season-to-date average is 14 million, up 2% through all eight games (seven weeks) year-over-year through the same time period in 2021.
NASCAR Ratings Info – Homestead-Miami Speedway
- NASCAR Cup Series: Sunday’s event on NBC earned a 1.42 rating and an average of 2.31 million viewers, ranking as the #1 motorsport of the weekend
- Through Homestead-Miami, viewership for the current NCS season (Clash – Homestead-Miami) remains up +4%, household share is up +11% YOY (Clash – Kansas II)
- At peak, 3.1 million viewers were tuned in
U.S. Rating
2022: 1.42 on NBC
+13% versus 2021 Kansas II, which aired on NBCSN (1.26)
Avg. Viewers (000) (all ages P2+)
2022: 2,311 (2.3 million)
+9% versus 2021 Kansas II, which aired on NBCSN (2.1 million)
