{"id":151957,"date":"2025-09-18T04:52:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151957\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:52:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:52:06","slug":"monday-night-doubleheader-averages-13-5-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/151957\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night doubleheader averages 13.5 million viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night\u2019s non-overlapping doubleheader delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the Buccaneers-Texans and Chargers-Raiders games <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/17\/bucs-texans-delivers-best-week-2-mnf-game-since-2008\/?publicationSource=newsletters&amp;issue=68cadb7ac2aa6f2f826d1ba1&amp;utm_source=sbj&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter_unpacks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">averaged 13.5 million viewers<\/a>. That\u2019s the best overall performance of a Monday night doubleheader, regardless of format, since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The early game from Houston, which was televised by ESPN and ABC, averaged 17.4 million. It\u2019s the highest number for a Week 2 Monday night game since 2008 (Eagles-Cowboys).<\/p>\n<p>The late game, shown only on ESPN, averaged 9.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>Week 4 ends with a simultaneous doubleheader, with Jets-Dolphins kicking off at 7:15 p.m. ET, and Bengals-Broncos starting one hour later. Another overlapping doubleheader happens two weeks later, with Bills-Falcons and Bears-Commanders.<\/p>\n<p>Week 7 ends with another 7:00 p.m. ET\/10:00 p.m. ET true doubleheader; the Buccaneers and Lions play in the early window and Texans-Seahawks follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday night\u2019s non-overlapping doubleheader delivered. Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal, the Buccaneers-Texans and Chargers-Raiders games averaged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":["post-151957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}