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Over the past decade, average viewership of NFL games on broadcast television has increased 25% from 15.4 million in 2004 to 19.2 million in 2014. More 2014 NFL TV highlights: · NBC’s Sunday Night Football ranked as the most-watched primetime program for the fifth consecutive fall season averaging 21.3 million viewers. The Week 15 SNF game (Cowboys-Eagles) was the most-watched primetime game of the season with an average of 24.3 million viewers. In its first year simulcast on CBS and NFL Network, Thursday Night Football saw huge gains, with total viewership up 53% from last season and 69% since 2012. The NFL accounted for the top 20 and 45 of the 50 most-watched shows last fall, and it was the No. 1 show in all 17 weeks of the season. Regular-season games televised nationally averaged 17.6 million viewers, making it the second most-watched season ever after 2010 (17.9 million viewers on average). Thursday Night Football viewership up 49 percent. Thursday Night Football's 5.5 million viewer average tops all other sports' playoffs on cable. NFL Network wrapped up its fourth season of Thursday Night Football with a record 5.5 million cable viewers tuning in on average -- up 49 percent from last year (3.7 million viewers). Over 460 million total minutes of video were consumed during the 195 minute game, the partners said, which implies an average viewership per minute of 2.36 million. An NFL spokesman confirmed the figure. Afternoon and evening NFL games on TV average 10 to 20 million viewers per minute. A Sunday morning Jets-Dolphins match-up earlier in the season, televised by CBS, averaged 9.9 million viewers. Like the Bills-Jaguars game, it was played in London at 9:30 a.m. ET. Thursday Night Football is up 6 percent in viewership this year from the same date a year ago, averaging 17.6 million viewers, up from 16.7 million last year. Overall, CBS is averaging 18.5 million viewers for its NFL telecasts, which would be the highest for the AFC game package in 29 years. Average number of viewers of the Summer Olympics opening ceremony in the United States from 1988 to 2016 (in millions)Viewers of the Summer Olympics opening ceremony in the U.S. 1988-2016. Daily viewership of Rio 2016 Olympics in the United States from August 5 to 21, 2016Rio 2016: daily viewership figures. Last year, the NFL had its most successful season yet in terms of television viewership, drawing more than 202 million unique viewers over the course of the entire season. That number represents an astounding 80 percent of all television homes. Average viewership per minute was high by web live-streaming standards, but low by NFL TV standards. The partners said 15.2 million people were exposed to the stream, many of them through Yahoo's (, Tech30) popular home page, where the video played automatically. NFL Network's 5.5 million average viewers for Thursday Night Football in 2009 topped by 15 percent the 4.8 million average for the 2009 NBA playoffs on ESPN and TNT and by eight percent the 5.1 million average for the 2009 MLB playoffs on TBS. In 2009, NFL Network had four of its five most-watched games ever: Total viewers of Major League Soccer in the United States from 2013 to 2015 (in millions)Number of MLS TV viewers in the U.S 2013-2015. TV viewership of selected soccer games in the United States in the 2016 season (in million viewers)Average TV viewership in the U.S. of selected soccer games 2016.
19.2 million