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NBC’S ‘Sunday Night Football’ Finishes TV Season as Primetime’s No. 1 Show for Record 12th Consecutive Year
Sports
NBC’S ‘Sunday Night Football’ Finishes TV Season as Primetime’s No. 1 Show for Record 12th Consecutive Year
May 24, 2023
Stamford, CT
With the 2022-23 TV season wrapping up tonight, NBC’s Sunday Night Football finishes as primetime’s #1 TV show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 12th consecutive year – adding to its record for the most consecutive years atop the charts (since 1950), based on official live plus same day data provided by Nielsen.
Sunday Night Football also ranked as the No. 1 show in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic for the 13th consecutive TV season.
Most Consecutive Years, #1 Ranked Show in Primetime, Since 1950
- 12 years in a row – Sunday Night Football (2011-12 through 2022-23)
- 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)
NBC Sunday Night Football posted a Total Audience Delivery average of 19.9 million viewers in 2022, according to official live plus same day data released by Nielsen, and digital data from Adobe Analytics.
We are extremely proud of our unparalleled production, technical, and announce teams – who work to make every Sunday Night Football presentation better than the week before – as we extend our record to 12 consecutive seasons as primetime’s No. 1 show.
“With a blockbuster 2023 SNF schedule, an exclusive Peacock regular season game in December, followed on Jan. 13 with the NFL’s first-ever exclusively streamed Playoff game on Peacock, we can’t wait to kick off this fall,” said Pete Bevacqua, Chairman, NBC Sports.
