The mantra for the current NFL champions may be “fly Eagles, fly” but last night on Sunday Night Football the Super Bowl XLVII victors ripped the Pittsburgh Steelers apart.
In a 26 -14 win on SNF, the Baltimore Ravens are now 3 – 1 this season and the Keystone State team are hung near the bottom of the AFC North. The game in Pittsburgh also saw another type of bottoming out in the ratings for the league and the NFL.
The primetime Week 4 match-up drew a 12.3/21 in metered market results
Hitting a season low for SNF, thats down 10% from the early metrics of the Detroit Lions easy win over the New England Patriots last week.
However, compared to the near season low of the comparative game of last year, the metered markets for last nights SNF is up 12% over the Seattle Seahawks blowout of the Indianapolis Colts of October 1, 2017 – the day of the tragic mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas.
Last years Week 4 game went on to earn 16.7 million viewers and a 5.8/21 rating among adults 18-49 in the final numbers. Last weeks SNF scored a 6.4/25 in the key demo and 19.5 million sets of eyeballs.
With all that, as one would expect from a night of NFL, NBC won Sundays primetime yesterday.
Well update with more SNF numbers as we get them plus the very timely 60 Minutes season debut and the rest of what was on the Big 4 last night. Until then, heres a couple of stats for you. One, last nights game was the top metered markets ratings Week 4 for SNF since 2015 when the New Orleans Saints beat the big draw Dallas Cowboys in OT. Secondly, last nights SNF peaked in the 2nd quarter time slot of 9:15 – 9:30 PM ET with a 13.3/22.
And here are the top 10 local markets for the Ravens pecking of those Steelers:
1. Pittsburgh 42.7/60
2. Baltimore 32.3/49
3. Washington D.C. 19.1/34
4. New Orleans 19.0/26
5. Norfolk 18.1/29
6. Richmond 16.1/25
7. Denver 16.0/28
8. Cincinnati 15.9/25
9. Columbus 15.4/26
10. Nashville 14.9/23.
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