TV Ratings: ‘Sunday Night Football’ Down Again On Day Of Player Protests. On a day full of criticism from Donald Trump, political protests, linked arms, players taking a knee or not coming on the field at all during the national anthem, and renewed pleas for unity from the league, NBC and the NFL took a ratings hit on. Sunday Night Football.

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In metered market numbers, the primetime matchup that saw the Washington Redskins beat the Oakland Raiders 2. SNF has performed this season so far. It’s an 8% dip from the early numbers of last week’s game, Atlanta’s 3. Green Bay. Amid cheers and boos from fans at Fed. Ex Field in Maryland last night, the third week of the SNF  season declined 1. September 2. 5, 2.

Sunday’s SNF peaked with a 1. PM ET. Still, NFL ratings are down double- digits this season so far after taking a similar tackle- for- loss last year. Add to that, Sunday’s game was the worst a Week 3 SNF has done in 1.

These SNF numbers come on top of a tense Sunday that saw games across the nation under a new spotlight: how would teams respond to Trump’s blasts of Friday at a speech in Alabama and on social media. Started by currently unemployed quarterback and then San Francisco 4. Colin Kaepernick more than a year ago, several NFL players have been publicly protesting police brutality and racial injustice by not standing for the national anthem. It was a move the ex- Celebrity Apprentice host and football fan Trump decried, though the ever- ratings conscious POTUS later said in a tweet Sunday that linking arms was OK. Related. Donald Trump Did Not Watch Football Today…Except For When He Did.

Linking arms is what the D. C team did last night, while nearly every single Raiders player stayed on the bench during the national anthem before the game on the Comcast- owned net. The September 1. 7 SNF game between the Falcons and Packers — originally reporting from 5. Hurricane Irma in Florida, and up against the Emmy Awards —  went on to snag 2. That final NBC viewership number was down 1. SNF kickoff September 1. Of course, while undoubtedly dominant, SNF wasn’t the only action Sunday on the small screen.

Pushed back nearly 2. NFL overruns, CBS had the Oprah Winfrey- debuting and 5. Minutes and the one and only broadcast of the new Star Trek Discovery, which will call CBS All Access home. Related‘Star Trek Discovery’ Fuels Record Sign- Ups For CBS All Access. We’ll update with more SNF results and the Star Trek Discovery, Steve Harvey’s Funderdome numbers as we get them.

In the meantime, here are the top markets for last night’s SNF: D. C. — 2. 3. 3/4. 0Richmond — 2. Norfolk — 1. 9. 8/3.

Sacramento — 1. 7. S. F./Oakland — 1. New Orleans — 1. 7. Denver — 1. 6. 2/2. Buffalo — 1. 5. 4/2. Kansas City — 1. 4. Las Vegas — 1. 4.

UPDATE, 9: 1. 7 AM: The results of next week will likely give us a better perspective if it was the widespread political protests by NFL players or a lopsided win by the Washington Redskins over the Oakland Raiders that brought Sunday Night Football’s ratings down last night. Regardless, with metered market numbers displaying an 8% dip, the fast affiliate results for last night aren’t providing a Hail Mary for NBC or the ratings- challenged league. In non- adjusted numbers, last night’s SNF delivered a 5. In the 8: 3. 0- 1. PM slot, that puts the Washington- Oakland game on the East Coast down 1. Week 2 matchup between the Atlanta Falcons and Green Bay Packers. Viewershipwise, last night’s game is currently taking a 2.

September 1. 7 game, which was down 1. Season opener of September 1. None of which will induce an end zone dance for the net or the league in a season already seeing double- digit declines from the 2. Last week’s Emmy Awards- facing SNF game ended up with a total audience of 2. Unlikely to change in the final numbers is NBC’s double win for the night, currently at 4.

With NFL overrun (5. Minutes (2. 5/9) and a special preview broadcast of Star Trek Discovery (1. CBS is in second with a 2. Pushed back to a 7: 4. PM ET start by the Kansas City Chiefs’ 2. L. A. Chargers, the now Oprah- featuring CBS newsmag was the night’s highest- rated non- sports show. Following that, the Sonequa Martin- Green- led Discovery had a pretty good debut in the first new Star Trek on the small screen in nearly 2.

Discovery was up 1. February 1. 9 premiering spinoff The Good Fight, the first new series to call CBS All Access home, among 1. Watch Commando Online Mic. Expect, as with SNF, final adjusted numbers for 6. Minutes and Discovery later today. While the Chiefs- Chargers game was down 1% from the comparable late afternoon matchup last year, the House of Moonves did score yesterday’s highest- rated MM NFL game, with Kansas City’s victory bringing in a 1.

Otherwise, the season finale of Steve Harvey’s Funderdome (0. ABC was up 3. 3% in the key demo over its last original. Celebrity Family Feud (1. The $1. 00,0. 00 Pyramid (0.

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