AFC, NFC Championship Games Continue NFL's TV Ratings Boon

by Milton Kent

Filed under: Sports Business and Media

For over a year, dating back to the BCS title game last January, television-audience levels for football games have spiraled upward -- and Sunday's NFL conference championship games continued the trend.

FOX reported that preliminary national ratings for the Green Bay-Chicago game were the highest ever for an NFC championship game airing in the early broadcast window, and the highest for an NFC title game that ended in regulation in 15 years.

Cut through all the qualifiers and you're left with this: The game was seen by nearly 52 million viewers and posted a 28.1 rating and 50 share of the national audience, a seven-percent rise in ratings, and 11-percent increase in audience from the AFC championship game between Indianapolis and the New York Jets.that aired at the same time last year

 

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Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/24/afc-nfc-championship-games-continue-nfls-tv-ratings-boon/

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