The NFL continues to rack up live audience numbers like nothing else can.<\/p>\n
Sunday night\u2019s Week 1 game between the Ravens and the Bills averaged 24.7 million viewers, on average. It was the biggest Sunday night opener since Bucs-Cowboys in 2022, which averaged 25.0 million.<\/p>\n
Of the amount, 3.0 million watched the game on Peacock. That makes it the most streamed regular-season Sunday night game to date.<\/p>\n
The two Week 1 games broadcast by NBC (Cowboy-Eagles, Ravens-Bills) averaged 26.5 million viewers, the highest number for the Thursday-Sunday combo since 2015 (Steelers-Patriots, Cowboys-Giants).<\/p>\n
This weekend, J.J. McCarthy makes his home debut for the Vikings, against the Falcons. Coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. ET with Football Night in America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL continues to rack up live audience numbers like nothing else can. Sunday night\u2019s Week 1 game…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-148241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}