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PRIMETIME FOOTBALL RETURNS TO CBS FOR THIRD YEAR OF THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL
2016 Thursday Night Football Schedule on CBS and NFL Network Features Four Division Rivalries; Kicks Off with New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills on September 15 Thursday Night Football Will Once Again Help Launch CBS’s 2016 Fall Primetime Schedule For the third consecutive year CBS Sports and NFL Network will broadcast a compelling slate of Thursday Night Football games. The 2016 Thursday Night Football schedule features five regular-season games on CBS and NFL Network, kicking off with the New York Jets vs. Buffalo Bills on September 15 (8:25 PM, ET). With the five early-season games...
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CBS SPORTS KICKS OFF 2016 NFL SEASON WITH MOST GAMES OF ANY NETWORK
CBS SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTED BY TWO NFL BROADCAST PACKAGES WITH NFL ON CBS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL The CBS Television Network continues to be the leading NFL broadcast network as it kicks off its 2016 NFL season broadcasting the most games of any network with THE NFL ON CBS Sunday afternoon and Thursday Night Football packages. THE NFL ON CBS schedule features some of the most marquee games in the 4:25 PM national window, the highest-rated NFL television window, including Cincinnati-Dallas (10/9), New England-Pittsburgh (10/23), Indianapolis-Green Bay (11/6) ...
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CBS SPORTS’ COVERAGE OF SUPER BOWL 50 IS MOST-WATCHED PROGRAM IN TELEVISION HISTORY AS 167.0 MILLION VIEWERS WATCH ALL OR PART OF GAME
The CBS Television Network’s coverage of SUPER BOWL 50 featuring the DENVER BRONCOS’ 24-10 win over the CAROLINA PANTHERS on Sunday, Feb 7 (6:39-10:22 PM, ET) was watched in all-or-part* by a record 167.0 million (Persons 2+) viewers, making it the most-watched single broadcast in television history on an all-or-part basis according to Nielsen’s Fast Total Audience Estimates. The previous high was CBS’s coverage of Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 (164.1 million; Baltimore Ravens-San Francisco 49ers). The 167.0 million viewers is a television-only number and does not include online ...
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AVERAGE OF 111.9 MILLION VIEWERS WATCH CBS’S COVERAGE OF SUPER BOWL 50
Game Peaks at 115.5 Million Viewers Between 8:30-9:00 PM, ET CBS Sports’ Streaming Coverage of Super Bowl 50 Sets Online Viewership Record The CBS Television Network’s coverage of SUPER BOWL 50 featuring the DENVER BRONCOS’ 24-10 win over the CAROLINA PANTHERS on Sunday, Feb 7 (6:39-10:22 PM, ET) was watched by an estimated average of 111.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen (Live + Same Day) Fast National ratings,making it the third-most-watched program in television history. Last night’s Super Bowl peaked with an average of 115.5 million viewers from 8:30-9:00 PM, ET. Streaming c...
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CBS’s COVERAGE OF SUPER BOWL 50 SCORES SECOND-HIGHEST OVERNIGHT RATING IN HISTORY
Denver’s Win Over Carolina Earns Overnight Rating/Share of 49.0/73 in Metered Markets CBS Sports’ coverage of SUPER BOWL 50 featuring the DENVER BRONCOS’ 24-10 win over the CAROLINA PANTHERS on Sunday, Feb. 7 (6:45-10:15 PM, ET), earned an average overnight household rating/share of 49.0/73, the second-highest-rated Super Bowl in the metered markets in history (as far back as records go - 1976). The SUPER BOWL 50 household rating/share peaked at 51.0/73 from 10:00-10:15 PM, ET. Following is a breakdown of the ratings by half-hours. (All times ET) 6:45-7:00 ...
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“THE SUPER BOWL TODAY” LOOKS FORWARD TO HISTORIC SUPER BOWL 50 MATCH-UP AND LOOKS BACK AT PAST 49 YEARS OF SUPER BOWLS ON NETWORK’S FOUR-HOUR PREGAME SHOW
Throughout the day on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 7, CBS’s Super Bowl 50 pregame show, THE SUPER BOWL TODAY (2:00-6:00 PM, ET), celebrates the Super Bowl by integrating into its coverage historical footage, great moments, videos, player vignettes and reflections highlighting the history of the Super Bowl since CBS first broadcast it in 1967. THE SUPER BOWL TODAY, with lead host James Brown along with analysts Boomer Esiason, Bill Cowher, Tony Gonzalez and Bart Scott, as well as hosts Ian Eagle and Greg Gumbel, contributing analysts Brandon Marshall, Trent Green and Amy Trask, NFL ...
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NFL EXPANDS “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”
CBS RETAINS RIGHTS; WILL BROADCAST FIVE “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” GAMES NBC ADDED AS “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” PARTNER; WILL BROADCAST FIVE GAMES NFL NETWORK TO EXCLUSIVLY TELEVISE EIGHT REGULAR SEASON GAMES; WILL SIMULCAST ENTIRE “THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL” SCHEDULE NEW YORK, N.Y. – Feb. 1, 2016 –The National Football League will expand THURSDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL in 2016 and 2017, continuing its partnership with CBS while also adding NBC as a partner, it was announced today by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corp., and Steve Burke, CEO, NBC Universal....
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PATRIOTS-BRONCOS IS SECOND MOST-WATCHED AFC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME IN 39 YEARS WITH 53.3 MILLION VIEWERS
CBS Sports’ New England-Denver Game Delivers Highest-Rated AFC Championship Game in 30 Years with 29.3/51 CBS Sports’ Streaming Coverage of the AFC Championship Game also Set Viewership Records with Triple-Digit Growth CBS Sports’ coverage of the New England-Denver game on Sunday, Jan. 24 (3:06-6:40 PM, ET) is the second most-watched AFC Championship game on any network in 39 years with 53.3 million viewers (Persons 2+), behind only the New York Jets-Pittsburgh AFC Championship game on January 23, 2011 (54.9 million, late window (6:42-9:54; CBS). New England-Denver also is the most watched...
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“THE NFL ON CBS” NEW ENGLAND-DENVER GAME IS HIGHEST-RATED AFC CHAMPIONSHIP IN 29 YEARS
Patriots-Broncos is Highest-Rated Television Program Since Last Year’s Super Bowl XLIX CBS Sports’ coverage of the New England-Denver 2016 AFC Championship on Sunday, Jan. 24 (3:00-6:45 PM, ET) dominated the day, earning an average overnight household rating/share of 31.8/53, making it the highest rated AFC Championship in 29 years (1/11/87; 31.9 HH rating; Denver-Cleveland-OT; NBC). The 31.8/53 is also the highest early-window game rating for both the AFC or NFC Championship since 1987. Yesterday’s AFC Championship on CBS topped the NFC Championship by +19% (26.8/40; Arizona-Carolina)....