In Sunday’s NFL Wild Card action, FOX Sports saw its carriage of the Packers/Redskins post a 21.8/37 in Nielsen household numbers, reeling in 38.8 million viewers to become the highest-rated and most-watched telecast of any kind since Super Bowl XLIX, according to the company. Still, with the Packers pulling away at the end, numbers finished off pace from 2014, which saw a Cowboys win average a 23.6/40, with 42.3 million viewers.
Around the dial, NBC’s coverage of the Seahawks nail-biting win averaged 35.3 million viewers for the network to rank as the most-watched early Sunday Wild Card on record, per Fast Nationals, and was up 25% over last year’s early Sunday Wild Card game. The matchup drew a 21.0 rating/42 share.