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ESPN’s Monday Night Football Scores Highest Rating Since 2009 with Redskins-Cowboys
•Season-Best 11.4 Rating and 18.8 Million Viewers Helps ESPN Win the Night
•Seventh Most-Viewed Telecast in Cable History among Households, Ninth among Viewers
•Most-Watched MNF Game on ESPN Deportes in 2014
•Most-Watched MNF Game ever on WatchESPN
Last night’s Monday Night Football game – a Washington Redskins’ 20-17 upset victory over the Dallas Cowboys in overtime – delivered ESPN’s highest-rated and most-viewed MNF telecast since 2009. The game ranked as the top telecast of the night across cable and broadcast in viewers, households and all key male and adult demos, helping ESPN win the night among all networks in those same categories.
The game averaged a season-high 11.4 household US rating; 13,313,000 households; and 18,809,000 viewers (P2+), according to Nielsen. It peaked from 11:30-11:45 p.m. with a 13.6 rating and 22,485,000 viewers.
Redskins-Cowboys is the highest-rated MNF game since the New Orleans Saints-New England Patriots telecast on Nov. 30, 2009 (12.9 household rating) and the most-viewed game since the New Orleans-Atlanta Falcons game on Dec. 27, 2010 (19,137,000 viewers). Overall, the game is now the seventh most-viewed telecast in cable history among households and the ninth most-viewed among viewers (P2+), excluding breaking news. (Note: ESPN MNF and BCS Championship college football games occupy the entire top-10 in both categories. See below.)
In Washington, D.C., the game delivered a 17.8 rating on ESPN and a 12.6 on WDCA-IND, for a combined 30.4 rating in the market. In Dallas, the game delivered a 14.0 rating on ESPN and a 22.6 on WFAA-ABC, for a combined 36.6 rating in the market.
The top 10 metered markets (in addition to those of the competing teams) included:
Richmond (24.7), San Antonio (24.5), Norfolk (20.2), Austin (19.3), Las Vegas (18.9), New Orleans (18.0), Baltimore (16.9), San Diego (16.7), Albuquerque (16.1) and Houston (15.9).
Wow, Richmond highest watching outside of DC and Dallas...#buildthatstadiumhere
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