Ok OK Enough about the Pats,lets talk television.
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Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Pats/Ravens most watched cable program ever.
It has been a week of stunning cable successes for the National Football League.
Days after the Green Bay Packers/Dallas Cowboys game drew a 14.6 cable rating on the NFL Network, the second-highest rated coverage area rating in cable history, ESPN
drew the largest cable audience ever for the New England Patriots' near defeat at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens.
17.5 million viewers tuned in to
Monday Night Football, the most ever for a television program on cable. The 17.5 million is slightly higher than the previous record of 17.2 million viewers, held by
High School Musical 2 last August. During the fifteen minute period from 11:30 PM ET to 11:45, the game drew an astonishing 23 million viewers, and nearly a third of all televisions in use at the time were tuned into the game. ESPN won the night overall among broadcast and cable networks, only the third time the network has done so.
MNF accounts for two of the top three most watched programs in cable history; last year, a Cowboys/Giants
Monday Night Football game set a then-record, with 16 million viewers.
To put the 17.5 million viewers in perspective, only one game of the 2007 World Series on FOX drew more viewers, and no NBA Finals game in the past two years has drawn more viewers.
The game drew a 13.0 coverage area rating. The reason the 13.0 for Patriots/Ravens is lower than the 14.6 for Packers/Cowboys, even though Pats/Ravens had more viewers, is because ESPN is in far more households than the NFL Network. Coverage area ratings measure the amount of people watching out of the amount of people with the access to the cable channel.