The NFL Is King Once More Of The Ratings, Despite Kaepernick Controversy
Last week, the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys played a professional football game that was one for the ages, which will go down in NFL history. It also made ratings history, besting the much ballyhooed World Series Game 7. It effectively puts the final nail in the coffin of those that claimed the NFL boycott over Colin Kaepernick had any sort of effect.
Almost 50 million people saw that Packers-Cowboys game, the most-viewed NFL divisional playoff game in pro football history. That gave the game a whopping 26.1 rating with a 46 share. According to the Associated Press, "The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, and the share is the percentage watching a telecast among those homes with TVs on at the time."
More...
Almost 50 million people saw that Packers-Cowboys game, the most-viewed NFL divisional playoff game in pro football history. That gave the game a whopping 26.1 rating with a 46 share. According to the Associated Press, "The rating is the percentage of television households tuned to a program, and the share is the percentage watching a telecast among those homes with TVs on at the time."
More...