![]() As Sports TV Ratings’ Robert Seidman noted earlier this week, those ratings are percentages, so a smaller percentage in a larger market means more viewers than a big percentage in a smaller market. In Pittsburgh, where the game was played, the matchup scored an 11.9 rating on ESPN and a 28.9 rating on WTAE-ABC for a melded 40.8 rating.Īs always, local ratings need to be taken with the context of how big the market is. Looking at the team’s own local TV markets, the game drew a 10.2 rating on ESPN and a 14.9 rating on WLWT-NBC in Cincinnati for a combined 25.1 rating. Here’s what Deadline’s Dominic Patten wrote about that (using overnight ratings numbers, not finals): ![]() It’s also interesting that this game drew a fair bit more interest in Pittsburgh than it did in Cincinnati. Thus, it’s not all that bad in terms of this year’s MNF ratings. (The Bengals remain winless after the loss.) And that was pretty close to (and even a slight rise over) the final 2+ viewership numbers of 10,327,000 for last week’s Bears-Redskins game. However, it’s notable that last year’s game was a close one featuring a Kansas City team that was still unbeaten at this point, and there was quite probably a fair bit less interest in the Steelers (one of the many teams hurt by quarterback injuries this year, they were starting backup Mason Rudolph) and the Bengals, who both were 0-3 entering this. So that’s a 21 percent year-over-year drop for MNF. ![]() As per Showbuzz Daily’s Mitch Metcalf, the game drew an average Nielsen 2+ viewership number of 10,467,000 by contrast, last year’s Week 4 MNF game (the Kansas City Chiefs’ 27-23 win over the Denver Broncos) pulled in 13,214,000 viewers by that metric. The final viewership ratings are in for ESPN’s Week 4 Monday Night Football broadcast (the Pittsburgh Steelers’ 27-3 home win over the Cincinnati Bengals), and they tell a different story depending on if you’re comparing year-over-year or comparing to last week.
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