Ratings Roundup: FOX Sports Scores with Phillies NLCS Clincher, Monday Night Football Averages 15.3 Million Viewers through Week 7

Ratings Roundup: FOX Sports Scores with Phillies NLCS Clincher, Monday Night Football Averages 15.3 Million Viewers through Week 7 By SVG Staff

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 10:25 pm

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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)

ESPN Scores Six of Top 10 Most-Viewed College Football Games of Week 8, Continues Year-Over-Year Viewership Growth

ESPN networks notched a banner viewership week as the 2022 college football season moved past its midpoint, delivering six of the top 10 most-viewed games of Week 8 and the top college football games in the noon, afternoon, primetime and late prime windows. In addition, ABC won the noon and afternoon windows across all networks.

ABC aired the top two games of Week 8 and the most-viewed game in the noon and afternoon windows. Across all three games, ABC averaged 4.3 million viewers, the network's most-watched college football Saturday since Week 1 and up double digits from 2021's Week 8.

Syracuse and Clemson's clash in Death Valley registered 4.7 million viewers - a top-five regular-season noon game on ABC since 2018. The Orange/Tigers tussle peaked at 7.2 million viewers. In the afternoon, 4.5 million viewers tuned into Texas at Oklahoma State, the most-watched Big 12 Conference game in 2022, peaking at 6.6 million viewers.

Mississippi State at Alabama was the top college football game across cable and in primetime in Week 8 with a combined 3.6 million viewers between the main telecast on ESPN and CFB Primetime with The Pat McAfee Show on ESPN2. The audience was up slightly from the same matchup in a similar viewing window in 2021.

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