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NBC Sports
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NBC Sports
NBC DELIVERS MORE YOUNG NFL VIEWERS THAN ANY MEDIA PARTNER, AS 'SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL' FINISHES TV SEASON AS PRIMETIME'S NO. 1 SHOW FOR RECORD 14TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR
With Its Largest Average Audience Since 2015, SNF Once Again Ranks No. 1 in Primetime in Viewership & HH Rating as TV Season Ends Tonight Led by Peacock, SNF Set Streaming Record with Full-Season Average Minute Audience Topping 2 Million Viewers for First Time Sunday Night Football's 20th Season Kicks Off in 2025 with Blockbuster Opening Weekend Matchups on NBC and Peacock – Cowboys vs. Eagles (Thurs., Sept. 4) and Ravens vs. Bills (Sun., Sept. 7) – and Culminates with Super Bowl LX! STAMFORD, Conn. – May 21, 2025 – With the 2024-25 TV season wrapping up tonight, NBC's Sunday Night Football finished the TV season as primetime's #1 show in all key metrics for an unprecedented 14th 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. In addition, NBC delivered more NFL viewers under age 50 than any other NFL media partner across all game windows (minimum seven games), and topped all media partners in the coveted Adult 18-34 and Adult 18-49 demographics. Most Consecutive Years, #1 Ranked Show in Primetime, Since 1950 14 years in a row – Sunday Night Football (2011-12 through 2024-25) 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) With an average of 6.7 million viewers aged 18-49 and 2.7 million viewers aged 18-34, based on official live plus same day data provided by Nielsen, NBC led all media partners (minimum seven games) across their complete NFL schedules (all game windows) – the fourth consecutive season SNF has led all media partners in viewership in both young adult demographics (2021-24). With streaming included, NBC's NFL viewership figures in the demos increase to 7.4 million (Adults 18-49) and 3.0 million (Adults 18-34), respectively. Sunday Night Football averaged a Total Audience Delivery (TAD) of 21.6 million viewers for the 2024 season – the show's best viewership since 2015 and up 1% from the 2023 season (21.4 million), according to Nielsen official national live plus same day data, and digital data from Adobe Analytics. 'As we look forward to our milestone 20th season of Sunday Night Football, culminating with Super Bowl LX on NBC and Peacock, we salute our tireless production, technical, and announce teams – which deliver a best-in-class presentation each week,' said Rick Cordella, President, NBC Sports. 'We are excited to extend SNF's streak on NBC stations to an unprecedented 14th consecutive year as primetime's No. 1 show, while also continuing to grow our Peacock audience, which topped an average of 2 million viewers for the first time.' SNF LEADS PRIMETIME IN EVERY MAJOR METRIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC In the 2024-25 TV Season, NBC's Sunday Night Football was primetime's #1 show in the following metrics: Average (P2+) Viewership Household Rating Household Share People 2-17 Adults 18-34 Adults 18-49 Adults 18-54 Adults 25-54 Men 18-34 Men 18-49 Men 18-54 Men 25-54 Women 18-49 Women 18-54 Women 25-54 Source: Nielsen, Live + Same Day, 9/5/24-5/21/25 ACROSS NBC BROADCAST AFFILIATES NATIONALLY, SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL TOPS ALL KEY METRICS On NBC broadcast stations, Sunday Night Football topped all primetime shows in average viewership and household rating, and for the 16th consecutive season ranked #1 among adults 18-49. Key SNF Full Season Metrics (Nielsen data on NBC Broadcast only) Source: Nielsen, Live + Same Day Data, 9/5/24-5/21/25 LED BY PEACOCK, RECORD-SETTING SNF STREAMING TOPPED 2 MILLION AVERAGE MINUTE AUDIENCE (AMA) FOR FIRST TIME Led by Peacock, NBC Sports Digital hit another viewership milestone for Sunday Night Football in 2024, delivering a full-season Average Minute Audience above 2 million viewers (2.2 million) for the first time across Peacock, the NBC Sports app, and NFL Digital properties – up 38% from the prior record (1.6 million) set in the 2023 season, and nearly double the AMA in 2022 (1.2 million). NBC SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL's MILESTONE 20TH SEASON CULMINATES WITH SUPER BOWL LX NBC's Sunday Night Football celebrates its 20th season showcasing high-profile matchups featuring the NFL's biggest stars and best rivalries from NFL Kickoff in September to sports' biggest spectacle – Super Bowl LX on Feb. 8, 2026, on NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo. NBC's SNF opens with a blockbuster Kickoff Weekend. First, it's a renewal of the most-played regular-season SNF matchup as Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys visit Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts, NFL rushing leader Saquon Barkley and the Super Bowl-champion Philadelphia Eagles in NFL Kickoff '25 on Thursday, Sept. 4 on NBC, Peacock, and Telemundo. The opener marks the record 17th matchup between the clubs in NBC's SNF package and the first time Dallas and Philadelphia will meet in Week 1 since 2000. Three nights later (Sept. 7), NBC Sports' SNF opener features the past two NFL MVPs as Lamar Jackson ('23 MVP) and the AFC North champion Baltimore Ravens visit Josh Allen ('24 MVP) and the AFC East champion Buffalo Bills in a rematch of last season's AFC Divisional Playoff – a two-point Buffalo victory. Peacock will once again stream all NBC Sunday Night Football games, including the playoffs, and the Football Night in America studio show. The exclusive Peacock Sunday Night Football Final returns with expanded postgame coverage following SNF each week. Peacock will be the exclusive national home of an NFL Week 17 game in primetime, streaming live on Saturday, Dec. 27. The Peacock Holiday Exclusive will be selected from a pool of key NFL Week 17 Saturday matchups. For a look at the full season schedule on NBC and Peacock, click here. --SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL—
15-05-2025
- Sport
NFL continues to navigate scheduling puzzle with every game up for bid and more broadcast windows
NBC Sports president Rick Cordella put it best when summarizing what the NFL's scheduling department goes through each year. 'I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it's a little bit of that,' Cordella said Wednesday afternoon after he had a chance to look at the 'Sunday Night Football' slate for the upcoming season. 'They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We're all campaigning. We're all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.' One would think the job has gotten somewhat easier the past couple years as the league has come up with more broadcast windows, including making Christmas Day a permanent fixture. The trade off though is that this is the third year under the league's broadcast deals that all of the games are up for bid for every network. CBS remains the primary home of the AFC, with the NFC on Fox, but if there is a great NFC matchup during a week when CBS has the doubleheader, that game will end up on CBS. That is the case in Week 1 with Detroit visiting Green Bay in the 4:25 p.m. EDT spot. Hans Schroeder, the NFL's executive vice president of media distribution, said this year's rotation of the NFC North facing the AFC North and NFC East created a lot of favorable matchups to divide among all the network's broadcast partners. 'We love every schedule in May. Hopefully we love it in December too,' said Schroeder, who is in his second year leading the league's scheduling team. 'We have a lot of great matchups, and the flexibility of those new TV deals that every game could go into any widow, I think that's the key and to marry that with a team that is relentless in their effort, I think led to a fun and really great schedule.' Even though the league announced the release date during the first round of the NFL Draft on April 24, the schedule wasn't totally finalized until Tuesday. Because some of the games started to be announced on Monday during network upfront presentations to advertisers, those matchups were locked in on Sunday night. The biggest final-minute decision with the early announced games came with the Fox Week 16 Saturday doubleheader on Dec. 20. The league knew it wanted Packers vs. Bears and Eagles vs. Commanders, but didn't finalize the home teams until Sunday night. If ever there was a year where the league could opt to move the Buffalo-Kansas City game from CBS to prime time, this was the one. However, the Week 9 matchup will again be on CBS and is the only 4:25 p.m. game on Nov. 2. Going into this season, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have faced each other nine times, including the playoffs. The first matchup in 2020 was on Fox with the rest being on CBS. 'To be documenting the story of these franchises and star quarterbacks, we're thrilled to keep telling it,' CBS Sports president and CEO David Berson said. CBS also got what could be the most-watched game during the regular season with Kansas City visiting Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. The most-watched Thanksgiving game was in 2022 when the New York Giants win over Dallas averaged 42.06 million on Fox. The Chiefs and Bills are both slated to have nine games on CBS. It is rare that a Super Bowl rematch airs on the network that carried the game, but Fox gets Kansas City visiting Philadelphia on Week 2 in the 4:25 p.m. EDT window. Getting the rematch satisfied a couple of requests that Fox made to the league. The network wants more variety in its late afternoon window, and is also getting more quality matchups when the top AFC teams play on their network. 'We didn't want to be so reliant on the Dallas Cowboys. I think we hear complaints sometimes that fans feel like it gets a little bit monotonous that our 4:25 window is dominated by one team,' said Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports president, insight and analytics. 'We're certainly still going to have our share of Dallas games, but we're going to have some Philly in there too. We're also going to have Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington. I think it is pretty different than what you're used to seeing on Fox, and I think it's actually going to be a little bit better.' NBC not only has the Kickoff game between Dallas and Philadelphia on Sept. 4, it has the matchup between the last two NFL MVPs when Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens visit Allen and Buffalo on Sept. 7 on 'Sunday Night Football'. ABC will have 13 'Monday Night Football' games — 11 simulcasts with ESPN and two exclusive games. There will also be two MNF doubleheaders on Sept. 15 and Oct. 20. The Week 7 doubleheader will have the late game between Houston and Seattle streamed on ESPN+. 'Thursday Night Football on Prime Video' features all 14 playoff teams from last year as well as 10 divisional matchups. Prime Video concludes its regular-season slate with Denver at Kansas City on Christmas night. The Black Friday game between Chicago and Philadelphia will also include an NBA doubleheader afterward. Derek Carr's retirement did not have any impact on New Orleans' schedule. The Saints were already in a rebuilding mode under new coach Kellen Moore and join Cleveland and Tennessee as the only teams not slated to make a prime time appearance. Pittsburgh is already a national brand, so the waiting game on if Aaron Rodgers suits up in black and yellow or who will be Mike Tomlin's quarterback also didn't have much of a factor. The Steelers — along with AFC North rivals Baltimore and Cincinnati — have four prime time games. However, in case Rodgers decides to sign with Pittsburgh, his Week 1 opponent will be at the New York Jets and former Steelers quarterback Justin Fields.
Chicago Tribune
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Chicago Tribune
How the NFL navigates the scheduling puzzle with every game up for bid — and more broadcast windows
NBC Sports President Rick Cordella put it best when summarizing what the NFL's scheduling department goes through each year. 'I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it's a little bit of that,' Cordella said Wednesday afternoon after he had a chance to look at the 'Sunday Night Football' slate for the upcoming season. 'They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We're all campaigning. We're all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.' One would think the job has gotten somewhat easier the past couple years as the league has come up with more broadcast windows, including making Christmas Day a permanent fixture. The trade off though is that this is the third year under the league's broadcast deals that all of the games are up for bid for every network. CBS remains the primary home of the AFC, with the NFC on Fox, but if there is a great NFC matchup during a week when CBS has the doubleheader, that game will end up on CBS. That is the case in Week 1 with Minnesota visiting Green Bay in the 3:25 p.m. spot. Hans Schroeder, the NFL's executive vice president of media distribution, said this year's rotation of the NFC North facing the AFC North and NFC East created a lot of favorable matchups to divide among all the network's broadcast partners. 'We love every schedule in May. Hopefully we love it in December too,' said Schroeder, who is in his second year leading the league's scheduling team. 'We have a lot of great matchups, and the flexibility of those new TV deals that every game could go into any widow, I think that's the key and to marry that with a team that is relentless in their effort, I think led to a fun and really great schedule.' Even though the league announced the release date during the first round of the NFL Draft on April 24, the schedule wasn't totally finalized until Tuesday. Because some of the games started to be announced on Monday during network upfront presentations to advertisers, those matchups were locked in on Sunday night. The biggest final-minute decision with the early announced games came with the Fox Week 16 Saturday doubleheader on Dec. 20. The league knew it wanted Packers vs. Bears and Eagles vs. Commanders, but didn't finalize the home teams until Sunday night. Chicago Bears 2025 schedule: A closer look at each game — and our writers' predictionsIf ever there was a year where the league could opt to move the Buffalo-Kansas City game from CBS to prime time, this was the one. However, the Week 9 matchup will again be on CBS and is the only 3:25 p.m. game on Nov. 2. Going into this season, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have faced each other nine times, including the playoffs. The first matchup in 2020 was on Fox with the rest being on CBS. 'To be documenting the story of these franchises and star quarterbacks, we're thrilled to keep telling it,' CBS Sports president and CEO David Berson said. CBS also got what could be the most-watched game during the regular season with Kansas City visiting Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. The most-watched Thanksgiving game was in 2022 when the New York Giants win over Dallas averaged 42.06 million on Fox. The Chiefs and Bills are both slated to have nine games on CBS. It is rare that a Super Bowl rematch airs on the network that carried the game, but Fox gets Kansas City visiting Philadelphia on Week 2 in the 3:25 p.m. window. Getting the rematch satisfied a couple of requests that Fox made to the league. The network wants more variety in its late afternoon window, and is also getting more quality matchups when the top AFC teams play on their network. 'We didn't want to be so reliant on the Dallas Cowboys. I think we hear complaints sometimes that fans feel like it gets a little bit monotonous that our 4:25 (EDT) window is dominated by one team,' said Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports president, insight and analytics. 'We're certainly still going to have our share of Dallas games, but we're going to have some Philly in there too. We're also going to have Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington. I think it is pretty different than what you're used to seeing on Fox, and I think it's actually going to be a little bit better.' NBC not only has the Kickoff game between Dallas and Philadelphia on Sept. 4, it has the matchup between the last two NFL MVPs when Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens visit Allen and Buffalo on Sept. 7 on 'Sunday Night Football'. ABC will have 13 'Monday Night Football' games — 11 simulcasts with ESPN and two exclusive games. There will also be two MNF doubleheaders on Sept. 15 and Oct. 20. The Week 7 doubleheader will have the late game between Houston and Seattle streamed on ESPN+. 'Thursday Night Football on Prime Video' features all 14 playoff teams from last year as well as 10 divisional matchups. Prime Video concludes its regular-season slate with Denver at Kansas City on Christmas night. Derek Carr's retirement did not have any impact on New Orleans' schedule. The Saints were already in a rebuilding mode under new coach Kellen Moore and join Cleveland and Tennessee as the only teams not slated to make a prime time appearance. Pittsburgh is already a national brand, so the waiting game on if Aaron Rodgers suits up in black and yellow or who will be Mike Tomlin's quarterback also didn't have much of a factor. The Steelers — along with AFC North rivals Baltimore and Cincinnati — have four prime time games. However, in case Rodgers decides to sign with Pittsburgh, his Week 1 opponent will be at the New York Jets and former Steelers quarterback Justin Fields.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
NFL continues to navigate scheduling puzzle with every game up for bid and more broadcast windows
NBC Sports President Rick Cordella put it best when summarizing what the NFL's scheduling department goes through each year. 'I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it's a little bit of that,' Cordella said Wednesday afternoon after he had a chance to look at the 'Sunday Night Football' slate for the upcoming season. 'They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We're all campaigning. We're all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.' One would think the job has gotten somewhat easier the past couple years as the league has come up with more broadcast windows, including making Christmas Day a permanent fixture. The trade off though is that this is the third year under the league's broadcast deals that all of the games are up for bid for every network. CBS remains the primary home of the AFC, with the NFC on Fox, but if there is a great NFC matchup during a week when CBS has the doubleheader, that game will end up on CBS. That is the case in Week 1 with Minnesota visiting Green Bay in the 4:25 p.m. EDT spot. Hans Schroeder, the NFL's executive vice president of media distribution, said this year's rotation of the NFC North facing the AFC North and NFC East created a lot of favorable matchups to divide among all the network's broadcast partners. 'We love every schedule in May. Hopefully we love it in December too,' said Schroeder, who is in his second year leading the league's scheduling team. 'We have a lot of great matchups, and the flexibility of those new TV deals that every game could go into any widow, I think that's the key and to marry that with a team that is relentless in their effort, I think led to a fun and really great schedule.' Down to the wire again Even though the league announced the release date during the first round of the NFL Draft on April 24, the schedule wasn't totally finalized until Tuesday. Because some of the games started to be announced on Monday during network upfront presentations to advertisers, those matchups were locked in on Sunday night. The biggest final-minute decision with the early announced games came with the Fox Week 16 Saturday doubleheader on Dec. 20. The league knew it wanted Packers vs. Bears and Eagles vs. Commanders, but didn't finalize the home teams until Sunday night. Bills vs. Chiefs remains on CBS If ever there was a year where the league could opt to move the Buffalo-Kansas City game from CBS to prime time, this was the one. However, the Week 9 matchup will again be on CBS and is the only 4:25 p.m. game on Nov. 2. Going into this season, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have faced each other nine times, including the playoffs. The first matchup in 2020 was on Fox with the rest being on CBS. 'To be documenting the story of these franchises and star quarterbacks, we're thrilled to keep telling it,' CBS Sports president and CEO David Berson said. CBS also got what could be the most-watched game during the regular season with Kansas City visiting Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. The most-watched Thanksgiving game was in 2022 when the New York Giants win over Dallas averaged 42.06 million on Fox. The Chiefs and Bills are both slated to have nine games on CBS. Hello again It is rare that a Super Bowl rematch airs on the network that carried the game, but Fox gets Kansas City visiting Philadelphia on Week 2 in the 4:25 p.m. EDT window. Getting the rematch satisfied a couple of requests that Fox made to the league. The network wants more variety in its late afternoon window, and is also getting more quality matchups when the top AFC teams play on their network. 'We didn't want to be so reliant on the Dallas Cowboys. I think we hear complaints sometimes that fans feel like it gets a little bit monotonous that our 4:25 window is dominated by one team,' said Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports president, insight and analytics. 'We're certainly still going to have our share of Dallas games, but we're going to have some Philly in there too. We're also going to have Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington. I think it is pretty different than what you're used to seeing on Fox, and I think it's actually going to be a little bit better.' Under the lights NBC not only has the Kickoff game between Dallas and Philadelphia on Sept. 4, it has the matchup between the last two NFL MVPs when Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens visit Allen and Buffalo on Sept. 7 on 'Sunday Night Football'. ABC will have 13 'Monday Night Football' games — 11 simulcasts with ESPN and two exclusive games. There will also be two MNF doubleheaders on Sept. 15 and Oct. 20. The Week 7 doubleheader will have the late game between Houston and Seattle streamed on ESPN+. 'Thursday Night Football on Prime Video' features all 14 playoff teams from last year as well as 10 divisional matchups. Prime Video concludes its regular-season slate with Denver at Kansas City on Christmas night. No late surprises Derek Carr's retirement did not have any impact on New Orleans' schedule. The Saints were already in a rebuilding mode under new coach Kellen Moore and join Cleveland and Tennessee as the only teams not slated to make a prime time appearance. Pittsburgh is already a national brand, so the waiting game on if Aaron Rodgers suits up in black and yellow or who will be Mike Tomlin's quarterback also didn't have much of a factor. The Steelers — along with AFC North rivals Baltimore and Cincinnati — have four prime time games. However, in case Rodgers decides to sign with Pittsburgh, his Week 1 opponent will be at the New York Jets and former Steelers quarterback Justin Fields. ___ AP NFL:
San Francisco Chronicle
15-05-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
NFL continues to navigate scheduling puzzle with every game up for bid and more broadcast windows
NBC Sports President Rick Cordella put it best when summarizing what the NFL's scheduling department goes through each year. 'I have five kids at home and you never satisfy them all. Just try and do your best, so I think it's a little bit of that,' Cordella said Wednesday afternoon after he had a chance to look at the 'Sunday Night Football' slate for the upcoming season. 'They have really, really hard jobs. I have no doubt. We're all campaigning. We're all leveraging. We all pay a lot of money for these rights and we all want the same thing.' One would think the job has gotten somewhat easier the past couple years as the league has come up with more broadcast windows, including making Christmas Day a permanent fixture. The trade off though is that this is the third year under the league's broadcast deals that all of the games are up for bid for every network. CBS remains the primary home of the AFC, with the NFC on Fox, but if there is a great NFC matchup during a week when CBS has the doubleheader, that game will end up on CBS. That is the case in Week 1 with Minnesota visiting Green Bay in the 4:25 p.m. EDT spot. Hans Schroeder, the NFL's executive vice president of media distribution, said this year's rotation of the NFC North facing the AFC North and NFC East created a lot of favorable matchups to divide among all the network's broadcast partners. 'We love every schedule in May. Hopefully we love it in December too,' said Schroeder, who is in his second year leading the league's scheduling team. 'We have a lot of great matchups, and the flexibility of those new TV deals that every game could go into any widow, I think that's the key and to marry that with a team that is relentless in their effort, I think led to a fun and really great schedule.' Down to the wire again Even though the league announced the release date during the first round of the NFL Draft on April 24, the schedule wasn't totally finalized until Tuesday. Because some of the games started to be announced on Monday during network upfront presentations to advertisers, those matchups were locked in on Sunday night. The biggest final-minute decision with the early announced games came with the Fox Week 16 Saturday doubleheader on Dec. 20. The league knew it wanted Packers vs. Bears and Eagles vs. Commanders, but didn't finalize the home teams until Sunday night. Bills vs. Chiefs remains on CBS If ever there was a year where the league could opt to move the Buffalo-Kansas City game from CBS to prime time, this was the one. However, the Week 9 matchup will again be on CBS and is the only 4:25 p.m. game on Nov. 2. Going into this season, Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen have faced each other nine times, including the playoffs. The first matchup in 2020 was on Fox with the rest being on CBS. 'To be documenting the story of these franchises and star quarterbacks, we're thrilled to keep telling it,' CBS Sports president and CEO David Berson said. CBS also got what could be the most-watched game during the regular season with Kansas City visiting Dallas on Thanksgiving Day. The most-watched Thanksgiving game was in 2022 when the New York Giants win over Dallas averaged 42.06 million on Fox. The Chiefs and Bills are both slated to have nine games on CBS. Hello again It is rare that a Super Bowl rematch airs on the network that carried the game, but Fox gets Kansas City visiting Philadelphia on Week 2 in the 4:25 p.m. EDT window. Getting the rematch satisfied a couple of requests that Fox made to the league. The network wants more variety in its late afternoon window, and is also getting more quality matchups when the top AFC teams play on their network. 'We didn't want to be so reliant on the Dallas Cowboys. I think we hear complaints sometimes that fans feel like it gets a little bit monotonous that our 4:25 window is dominated by one team,' said Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports president, insight and analytics. 'We're certainly still going to have our share of Dallas games, but we're going to have some Philly in there too. We're also going to have Buffalo, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Detroit, Washington. I think it is pretty different than what you're used to seeing on Fox, and I think it's actually going to be a little bit better.' Under the lights NBC not only has the Kickoff game between Dallas and Philadelphia on Sept. 4, it has the matchup between the last two NFL MVPs when Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens visit Allen and Buffalo on Sept. 7 on 'Sunday Night Football'. ABC will have 13 'Monday Night Football' games — 11 simulcasts with ESPN and two exclusive games. There will also be two MNF doubleheaders on Sept. 15 and Oct. 20. The Week 7 doubleheader will have the late game between Houston and Seattle streamed on ESPN+. 'Thursday Night Football on Prime Video' features all 14 playoff teams from last year as well as 10 divisional matchups. Prime Video concludes its regular-season slate with Denver at Kansas City on Christmas night. No late surprises Derek Carr's retirement did not have any impact on New Orleans' schedule. The Saints were already in a rebuilding mode under new coach Kellen Moore and join Cleveland and Tennessee as the only teams not slated to make a prime time appearance. Pittsburgh is already a national brand, so the waiting game on if Aaron Rodgers suits up in black and yellow or who will be Mike Tomlin's quarterback also didn't have much of a factor. The Steelers — along with AFC North rivals Baltimore and Cincinnati — have four prime time games. However, in case Rodgers decides to sign with Pittsburgh, his Week 1 opponent will be at the New York Jets and former Steelers quarterback Justin Fields.
