NEW YORK (AP) – Even at a time when football is generally dominating TV ratings, the long Thanksgiving Day weekend was noteworthy.
CBS’s Dallas Cowboys vs. Las Vegas Raiders television show reached 37.8 million viewers, the largest for a regular-season NFL game since Thanksgiving in 1993, Nielsen said.
Meanwhile, Michigan’s win over Ohio State in the Big 10’s annual rivalry game was seen by 15.9 million people on Saturday afternoon. This is the most-watched college football game of the regular season since LSU-Alabama two years ago, said Nielsen.
It was also the largest audience for a college football game on Fox ever, the network said.
For the prime time week, NBC led averaging 6.8 million viewers. CBS had 4.8 million, Fox 3.4 million, ABC 3.2 million, Univision 1.3 million, ION Television 990,000 and Telemundo 840,000.
ESPN led the cable networks with an average of 2.83 million viewers in prime time. Fox News Channel had 2.11 million, Hallmark 2.01 million, Paramount 1.18 million and TBS 888,000.
Nielsen did not immediately report the audience ratings for the evening news.
For the week from November 22nd to 28th, the top 20 prime-time programs, their networks and audience numbers:
1. NFL Football: Buffalo at New Orleans, NBC, 19.38 million.
2. NFL Football: Cleveland at Baltimore, NBC, 16.23 million.
3. “NFL Post-Game,” CBS, 15.19 million.
4. “NFL Pregame,” NBC, 12.24 million.
5. “The OT”, Fox, 11.7 million.
6. NFL Football: NY Giants at Tampa Bay, ESPN, 10.35 million.
7. “Football Night in America,” NBC, 8.48 million.
8. “Yellowstone,” Paramount, 7.89 million.
9. “60 minutes,” CBS, 7.56 million.
10. “Young Sheldon,” CBS, 6.57 million.
11. College Football: Oklahoma at Oklahoma St., ABC, 6.49 million.
12. “One Last Time: Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett,” CBS, 6.38 million.
13. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.34 million.
14. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 6.33 million.
15. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 5.94 million.
16. “Dancing With the Stars,” ABC, 5.64 million.
17. “Survivor,” CBS, 5.54 million.
18. “NFL Pregame,” ESPN, 5.43 million.
19. “Tucker Carlson Tonight” (Monday), Fox News, 5.05 million.
20. “FBI,” CBS, 5.04 million.
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