The assured playoff hopes and horns of the Los Angeles Rams were clipped on Sunday Night Football by a Chicago Bears team that just piled it on and on in front of their hometown crowd.
With a 15-6 win by Chicago, the name of the game was defense. And no matter how hard Sean McVays boys tried, they could not break through the Bears wall enough to claim another victory in a season that has otherwise seen the City of Angels team blessed.
However, on a night that saw the CWs latest annual Arrowverse kick off on a special The Flash, the NFL and NBC were as much the winners as the Windy City boys, though by not as large a margin.
Last nights SNF snared a 13.0/22 in metered market ratings.
Thats a 6% rise over last weeks Los Angeles Chargers 33-30 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the early metrics. On what is perhaps a more important scale, the Week 14 SNF of the 2018/2019 season is also up 12% in metered market ratings over the 2017/2018 season Week 14 match-up between Steelers win over the Baltimore Ravens.
The December 2 game eventually earned a 5.4/21 rating among adults 18-49 and 17.8 million viewers. The Steelers and Ravens face-off of December 10, 2017 pulled in 5.4/19 rating and an audience of 17.2 million.
Currently, fast affiliates have last nights SNF delivering 17.3 million sets of eyeballs and a 5.3/20 rating. That will clearly change in the final numbers when they come in. What will not change is NBCs dominance of the night.
In the meantime, as we await those final numbers, heres something to chew on – the Bears win over the Ram peaked with a 14.2/23 in the 9:45 – 10 PM ET slot.
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