While some American households protested NFL games and many more cut the chord last season, “Sunday Night Football” rating stayed strong.
NBC's prime-time broadcasts of “Sunday Night Football” during the 2017 season led the season’s season's television ratings for the seventh year in a row, according to a report Wednesday by the Associated Press.
Each “Sunday Night Football” broadcast in 2017 averaged 18.2 million TV viewers, according to Nielsen. As a whole, the “Sunday Night Football” broadcasts earned a 29 percent margin over its CBS competitor “Thursday Night Football.”
"One of the things that has allowed 'Sunday Night Football' to achieve this record is that when the NFL decided to take its marquee prime-time game off Monday and put it on Sunday, they would do all in their power to make sure Sunday nights would become successful," SNF producer Fred Gaudelli said, according to the Associated Press. "The flex schedule, the marquee matchups, week in and week out. This is now the 13th season for 'Sunday Night Football,' and the NFL has maintained that commitment, and that is a major reason why people are not tired of tuning into the prime-time game after a full day of football on Sunday.”
