UPDATED with adjustments: Fox’s primetime broadcast Sunday of the NFL’s NFC Championship Game between the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers took a tackle for loss in the ratings…
between the San Francisco 49ers and Green Bay Packers took a tackle for loss in the ratings compared with a year ago, but the game still dominated the competition and gave way to a solid bow for the premiere of the network’sThe game, in which the 49ers beat the Packers 37-20 to secure their spot in the Super Bowl against Kansas City on February 2, scored a 10.0 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic and drew 34.13 million total viewers.
That’s a big hit from last year’s primetime title game, the New England Patriots’ overtime victory over the Chiefs in the AFC finale on CBS, which drew a 27.2 rating in the early numbers and finaled at 53.9 million viewers. That had been a 27% spike from 2018 and the most-watched conference title game in a half-decade.Expect the 49ers-Packers numbers to rise some in Nielsen’s final numbers with gains among West Coast viewers.The game was followed by the series premiere of at 10 PM.
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