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Sunday Night Football Scores for Peacock, Continues Reign as Top Show
Sports
Sunday Night Football Scores for Peacock, Continues Reign as Top Show
Jan 10, 2023
Key Takeaways
NBC’s ‘SNF’ delivered nine games with 20+ million viewers – up from five games last season — in the most competitive time slot in media.
Led by Peacock, NBC Sports Digital sets ‘SNF’ streaming record with full-season average minute audience topping 1 million viewers for first time.
NBC’s ‘Football Night in America’ is Sports’ #1 weekly studio show for the 17th consecutive year.
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With Sunday night’s down-to-the-wire Lions-Packers matchup, NBC Sports concluded its 17th season of Sunday Night Football, topping all primetime television series in the fall and once again pacing to finish as primetime’s #1 TV show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 12th consecutive year.
NBC’s SNF, in the most competitive time slot in media, extended its record for the most consecutive years atop the charts (since 1950) and now doubles the show with the second-longest run atop primetime:
Most Consecutive Years, #1 Ranked Show in Primetime, Since 1950
12 years in a row – Sunday Night Football (2011-12 through 2022-23; on pace)
6 years in a row – American Idol (2005-06 through 2010-11)
5 years in a row – The Cosby Show (1985-86 through 1989-90)…tied Cheers in ‘89-90
5 years in a row – All in the Family (1971-72 through 1975-76)
4 years in a row – Gunsmoke (1957-58 through 1960-61)
Sunday Night Football, which featured a record 13 one-score games, averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 19.9 million viewers for the 2022 season – the show’s best viewership since 2019 and up 3% from last season (19.3 million), according to official national live plus same day data released by Nielsen, and digital data from Adobe Analytics. Over the course of the season, viewers watched nearly 72 billion minutes of SNF.
“With our most watched Kickoff Weekend in six years, the blockbuster Mahomes-Brady matchup, our largest two-game Thanksgiving Weekend audience in seven years and Sunday’s thrilling finale at iconic Lambeau Field, the 2022 Sunday Night Football season was a success from beginning to end,” said Pete Bevacqua, Chairman, NBC Sports. “In a transition year on the air and in the truck, we thank our unparalleled production, technical and announce teams. Coupled with the continued growth of Peacock, we delivered a best-in-class presentation and continued our record-setting 12-year run ranking #1 in primetime.”
Mike Tirico succeeded Al Michaels in the SNF booth this season, joining Cris Collinsworth. Melissa Stark followed Michele Tafoya as sideline reporter. Rob Hyland became coordinating producer, succeeding Fred Gaudelli, and joining director Drew Esocoff in the truck.
- SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL DELIVERS 9 GAMES WITH 20+ MILLION VIEWERS – BEST SINCE 2019
Sunday night’s Lions-Packers season finale averaged a Total Audience Delivery of 23.6 million viewers, marking the most-watched SNF finale in six years and the largest Sunday night audience since Week 1. In addition, it was the ninth NBC SNF game this season with 20+ million viewers – the most since 2019 and up from five last year. - LED BY PEACOCK, RECORD-SETTING SNF STREAMING TOPS 1 MILLION AVERAGE MINUTE AUDIENCE (AMA) FOR FIRST TIME
Led by Peacock, NBC Sports Digital hit another viewership milestone for Sunday Night Football in 2022, delivering a full-season Average Minute Audience above 1 million viewers (1.17 million) for the first time across Peacock, NBCSports.com, the NBC Sports app, and NFL Digital properties – up 38% from the prior record (843,000) set last year.
The streaming audience has grown such that NBC Sports Digital’s AMA of 1.17 million viewers for SNF tops the primetime average (8:30-11:30 p.m. ET) of all but three cable networks over the 20 nights of the SNF regular season package. - SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL CONTINUES TO DOMINATE ON TELEVISION’S MOST COMPETITIVE NIGHT
NBC’s Sunday Night Football is pacing to rank as primetime’s #1 show for the 12th consecutive season, despite facing television’s toughest primetime competition on a weekly basis.
On the 18 NFL Sundays since the Sept. 11 opening Sunday, 32 regularly-scheduled primetime television episodes averaged at least six million viewers (live + same day) – topping by 60% primetime television’s next strongest nights.
