With 200 million fans tuning in during the 2012 season, the NFL enjoyed one of its most-watched seasons in history, highlighted by viewership records for the NFL Network as well as NFL Digital Properties.

According to The Nielsen Company, this past regular season was viewed in 80 percent of all television homes and by 69 percent of the nation’s potential viewers.

Among all fall programming, NFL games accounted for 31 of the 32 most-watched TV shows and for the first time, an NFL game marked the most-watched TV show of the week during each week of the season.

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.