Fans are tuning into NFL games at a record pace through the midpoint of the 2011 season, with the average game telecast drawing 17.9 million viewers. Both primetime and daytime games have attracted increased viewership. FOX is on pace for its most-watched season ever, averaging 20 million viewers per week. CBS is averaging 17.1 million viewers per week, which would be the network’s second most-watched season since it began televising the AFC package in 1998.
Primetime telecasts on ESPN’s Monday Night Football and NBC’s Sunday Night Football are posting impressive numbers as well. Monday Night Football games rank as the eight most-watched shows on cable this fall, and Sunday Night Football is averaging a record 21.4 million viewers and ranks as the No. 1 show in primetime this television season in the adult 18-49 demographic.
NFL Network has seen a 21-percent increase in viewership for its primetime games and a 17-percent improvement for its Sunday programming. The Broncos will air on primetime on NFL Network on Thursday, Nov. 17 against the New York Jets.
13 of the 15 most-watched programs on television since the beginning of the NFL season are NFL games. Denver’s game at Green Bay, which was watched by 23 million viewers, comes in as the 13th most-watched program on television since the beginning of the season. That game received the 11th most viewers of any NFL game thus far in the 2011 season.
-Stuart Zaas
Tags: TV Ratings
LMAO @ the fiction piece, I never put a good fiction book down, haha.
I want to make the point again that the Broncos are going to sign a QB this year.
Orton and Quinn are not coming back so no matter what DEN does with Tebow they need a backup or another practice squad QB.
- Tebow is under contract and will be back or traded – trading will require two QB’s – and that still assumes Weber remains with the Broncos.
Elway and the scouts are just doing ‘due diligence’.
@ savinghyrule… no man you are not the only one that feels that way about mean old, and i mean OLD, bay! LOL But he has a good side too so most of us let him slide! LMAO mostly i just wanted to get a bit of a dig in there!
my prediction:
31-24 Denver
Unfortunately i dont have anything worth while to say.. works been keeping me busy enough that i havent really had a chance to keep up on the blogs! so let me just finish by saying…
GO BRONCOS!! GET SOME, GET SOME, UH UH UH!!
Well, read-option it is for Tebow at KC as stated by McCoy courtesy of Lindsay Jones:
The Broncos will continue to work on evolving the read-option offense that quarterback Tim Tebow and running back Willis McGahee ran so well last week against Oakland, offensive coordinator Mike McCoy said today.
“As long as it wins on Sundays, that’s key,” McCoy said following practice at Dove Valley.
McCoy said the option plays, which give Tebow the choice to hand off the ball to McGahee or keep it himself, have been in the Broncos’ playbook since late last season.
Tebow said Wednesday that the idea that he is susceptible to more hits in that style of offense isn’t true, stressing that the bigger hits have come from when he’s stayed in the pocket.
McCoy agreed — at least somewhat — today. Tebow was sacked only once against the Raiders, though he sustained a number of hard hits on either running plays or on passing plays after he had thrown the ball.
“When he’s in the open field, he has a good feel for where guys are coming from,” McCoy said. “But hey, when you play that style of football, you’re going to take some shots. It’s part of the game. He’s going to learn, and he’s learned already from last year, that there is going to be an opportune time for him to take a hit, and times for him to slide, get down or run out of bounds.”
Rule, take what TRB says to heart. The LOL thing helped me out as well, taught by none other than TRB himself. The reason for me, learning the computor and learning how to blog in fun and sometimes catching some flack from other Bronco fans. Hey, it goes with the territory. You can grow from it or shrink back. Your cool, some dudes on hear are obnoxious. Hang in there guy.
McCoy was definitely talking about that sandwich hit on the goal line last year, LOL.
As far as Tebow’s concerned, here’s my theory. The media in general does not have the ability to comprehend a person living a truly moral life outside the priesthood (which in suspect in it’s own right on occasion). Therefore, with the absence of bad things to report on such a popular sports figure, they must nitpick every aspect of his performance. Many players wouldn’t rank very high if nitpicked to the extent that Tebow is. I’m not saying that he’s great, just offering an explanation of why everyone cares. This much I believe. As for the theory part, I think that rather than ignore the moral enigma that is Tim Tebow, they would rather try to saturate his very existence with negativity and naysaying in an attempt to break him. Can you imagine the field day the media would have if Tim were to get a DUI or be accused of some other crime? Holy Cow, they’d go nuts. In all honesty, the existence of a high-profile, moral character threatens the very fabric of society, and must therefore be snuffed out by any means of slander necessary!
Bay,
I’m going strictly by the handbook(wish my memory was that good)and the listing of points on the board regardless of which QB actually started the game.DeBerg and Kubiak combined for the other 7 W’s.Again,Elway can be given some credit but nowhere near all the credit for achieving the playoffs in ’83.IMO.
new blog?
Nice one RabidOrange. right on.
Insert-Elway can be credited with the last two wins of the seaon-between game. and DeBerg.