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NBC Sports
07-03-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
NFL Network sees highest Scouting Combine viewership since 2017
As offseason NFL tentpoles go, the Scouting Combine remains the smallest. In 2025, it was bigger than it's been in years. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, NFL Network had its highest four-day Combine viewership since 2017. The average for Saturday's quarterback/receiver/running back workouts hit 484,000. That's the best the league-owned channel has generated. ABC, however, has done better in the years the workouts were simulcast on the broadcast network. That last happened in 2022. The fact that any NFL-branded content comes in under 500,000 viewers shows it's nowhere close to real NFL football games. But the workouts aren't real football. And only the hardest of the hardcore fans tune in. Still, 484,000 is a lot better than what the usual reruns would generate during an otherwise slow offseason weekend. Tomorrow's slate, for example, features the Minneapolis Miracle game at 11:00 a.m. ET, the 2024 Week 9 game between the Jets and Texans, the 2024 Week 14 game between the Falcons and Vikings, and the 2019 Bucs-Seahawks game.
NBC Sports
09-02-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
NFL Honors draws lowest audience ever
NFL games gather a live audience like nothing else. But not everything carrying The Shield on the show thrives in today's world of ever-fracturing audiences. For instance, Thursday night's NFL Honors on Fox and NFL Network generated the smallest audience in the history of the annual awards show, which first was televised in prime time in 2012. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, 2.3 million tuned in on average. That's a 20-percent drop from last year. It's also 11 percent lower than the previous low-water mark set in February 2021. The CBS and NBC evening programming outperformed the show. ABC did not. Also falling short was a TNT/truTV broadcast of Mavericks-Celtics, which had 1.81 million viewers. The biggest audience for NFL Honors happened in 2015 on NBC, with 4.669 million average viewers. That's more than twice the amount of the 2025 viewership.
NBC Sports
07-02-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
Report: Prime Video will continue to televise playoff game for balance of current rights deal
It started as a one-year thing. And it will now continue. Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal reports that Prime Video will continue to televise a Wild Card game for the balance of its current broadcast deal. While reported a seven-year commitment, the NFL has an early out under all current media deals, at the conclusion of the 2029 season. It's currently believed that the league will exercise that right. Amazon reportedly paid $150 million for the 2024 playoff game. The cost of the future postseason games isn't yet known. The Steelers-Ravens Saturday night game last month attracted 22.1 million viewers, down from the 23 million for the Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card game on Peacock a year earlier. Prime Video's performance in the first three years of the Thursday night package proves that the shift to streaming has happened, and that others (like Netflix) will be at the table the next time the NFL sells its various TV packages. And with more suitors than selections of games to sell, the numbers will continue to go up and up and up — as they always have.
NBC Sports
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
Pro Bowl audience plummets by 18 percent for Sunday's flag-football game
The non-Pro Bowl Pro Bowl isn't doing very well with the customers. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the NFL's All-Star event attracted 4.7 million viewers on ABC, ESPN, and DisneyXD. The number reflects an 18-percent drop from last year. It's also the lowers live audience for the Sunday afternoon version of the event. The inaugural flag-football based event two years ago had 6.3 million watching. The good news, if there is any, is that the Thursday night skills challenge on ESPN dropped only one percent, from 1.14 million to 1.13 million. On one hand, 4.7 million is still an impressive live audience. On the other hand, at some point the number falls to the point where the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
Yahoo
29-01-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Chiefs' playoff win vs. Bills was most-watched AFC Championship Game in NFL history
According to a report by Sports Business Journal editor Austin Karp, the Kansas City Chiefs' playoff matchup against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday was the most-watched AFC Championship Game in NFL history. A whopping 54.7 million viewers tuned in to watch Kansas City take down the Bills to earn their third consecutive Super Bowl appearance, much to the chagrin of a small but vocal contingency of fans who are less than thrilled about the Chiefs' current run of dominance. Sunday's record viewership topped last year's AFC Championship Game between Kansas City and the Baltimore Ravens, and is second only to the 2012 NFC Championship Game between the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers. Sunday's must watch game was watched by all 🍿(via @AustinKarp) — Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) January 28, 2025 Though the AFC Championship Game was the crowning achievement of the Chiefs' 2024 campaign, Kansas City's highly-anticipated matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX may give fans in Western Missouri even more to cheer about heading into the offseason. This article originally appeared on Chiefs Wire: Chiefs' playoff win vs. Bills was most-watched AFC Championship Game in NFL history
