The NFL remains to be dominating the tv panorama, however did see some regression in the course of the 2024 season.
Front Office Sports is reporting the league averaged 17.5 million viewers per recreation throughout all of its broadcast networks. That could be a large quantity however really a 2% lower from the 2023 marketing campaign. Final season the league noticed a 7% improve in viewership that rose to 17.9 million viewers per recreation, so 2024’s numbers are nonetheless above these from 2022.
The numbers for the 2024 marketing campaign have been nonetheless far above another programming in home tv, sports activities or not.
Amazon posted an 11% improve year-over-year to submit a median of 13.2 million viewers for its Thursday Evening Soccer choices. Together with its Black Friday recreation, these numbers leap to a 13% improve.
NBC’s Sunday Evening Soccer averaged 21.6 million viewers which was really up 1% from 2023. In the meantime, SNF’s digital viewers on Peacock and NBCSports.com was up 38% from 2023 to common 2.2 million per recreation.
ESPN noticed its second-best season in 24 years of airing Monday Evening Soccer this 12 months, because the community averaged 15 million viewers for all of its NFL video games. That quantity is down 14% from 2023, which has confirmed to be an enormous outlier. Nonetheless, many MNF video games have been simulcast on ABC in ’23, serving to account for final season’s giant quantity.
Fox’s broadcasts averaged 18.4 million for all of its NFL video games, which was down 3%. The community’s “America’s Sport of the Week” led all NFL broadcasts with a median of 23.9 million viewers, which was additionally down 3%. For the thirty first straight season, Fox NFL Sunday was the most-watched pregame present.
Netflix made its NFL broadcast debut on Christmas and averaged greater than 24 million for its signature doubleheader.
CBS has not disclosed its season-ending viewership information, however in response to FOS the community ended the 12 months down 1% at a median of 19.2 million per recreation.
General the league claimed 70 of the highest 100 broadcasts in the USA for 2024.
