The NFL continues to pay dividends for FOX Sports. The company is announcing that, with the conclusion of the 2015 NFL regular season, it scored an average 12.0/25 household rating/share for the lineup of games, with 20.7 million viewers. That marks the most-watched season for the company since the division began broadcasting NFL games in 1994, according to Nielsen. America’s Game of the Week ended its run with a 15.4/29, with 26.8 million viewers. Meanwhile, pregame staple FOX NFL Sunday once again took the top spot among NFL pregame shows, reeling in a 3.5/9 rating (besting arch-rival The NFL Today by 40%), and snagging its highest average season rating since 2004 with an average audience of 5.3 million viewers. Meanwhile, the network debut of FOX NFL Kickoff saw a boost of 127% over its slot n FS1, averaging 1.183 million viewers on the broadcast network.
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