Milwaukee was second.)Ībout the same time, The Guardian’s DJ Gallo noted: “NFL TV ratings are down through the first two weeks of the season and theories on the reasons why are already flying. Not only is that down 18 percent from last year’s ratings, it’s also a 9 percent dip compared to the SNF opener just last week.” (The game drew a stunning 50.4 rating/71 share here in the Twin Cities, by far the biggest audience for any U.S. According to Deadline, the primetime portion of last night’s game scored a 13.7/22 in Nielsen’s metered market ratings as the Vikings went on to beat the Packers 1714. The morning after the Vikings beat the Packers on Sunday Night Football, which is still the single most-watched program on television week in and week out, Brandon Katz at Forbes wrote: “Is it time for Roger Goodell and the NFL to hit the panic button? Sunday Night Football matchup drew in its lowest ratings in seven years ( Monday Night Footballdidn’t fare any better) and last night’s game between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings fell even further. ( One scholarly study estimates a mere 57 million Americans attend church services each week.) And yet, pro football is not off to a good start with television viewers this season, even with a quarter of a million viewers watching Thursday’s games on Twitter, a new development for the 2016 season. Point being: Football remains America’s true religion. (Alas, only $2 billion of it is “legal,” they complain.) Reporting on viewership for the first week’s games of the 2015 season, Variety noted: “For the sixth consecutive year, more than 105 million viewers watched at least some of the Kickoff Weekend game across CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC.”Īlso in the world of factoids: the American Gambling Association claims $90 billion will be bet on pro and college football this year. But before we get carried away patting ourselves on the back for our civicmindedness, consider that every week the combined viewership for pro football games exceeds that record-setting debate audience .

It was, in other words, “Super Bowl-sized” ( minus maybe 20 million ). When you factor in everyone watching on every available “platform” - which in this case means Twitter, various other social media venues, public television, CSPAN and the 13 regular channels that carried it live - the total audience for first Clinton-Trump debate likely pushed viewership close to 90 million people.

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