{"id":57877,"date":"2025-08-04T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57877\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T14:47:09","slug":"6-9-million-watched-chargers-lions-hall-of-fame-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/57877\/","title":{"rendered":"6.9 million watched Chargers-Lions Hall of Fame game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Football is back. And while the numbers are yet to hit regular-season form, a large throng tuned in for a glorified scrimmage involving second- and third-stringers.<\/p>\n<p>Via Austin Karp of Sports Business Daily, the Chargers-Lions Hall of Fame game on NBC <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/08\/04\/chargers-lions-is-best-hof-game-since-2021\/?publicationSource=newsletters&amp;issue=68909496c2aa6f8b8611d941&amp;utm_source=sbj&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=edition_morningbuzz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">generated 6.9 million viewers<\/a> on average for the broadcast. It\u2019s the biggest audience for the Hall of Fame game since the 2021 matchup between the Steelers and Cowboys, which averaged 7.31 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Bears-Texans on ABC averaged 4.93 million.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number, 691,000 watched on Peacock and NBC Digital. It\u2019s the biggest NBC preseason streaming audience ever.<\/p>\n<p>Several more preseason games will be nationally televised over the next three weeks. In four weeks and three days, the season gets started with Cowboys-Eagles in Philadelphia. On NBC and Peacock.<\/p>\n<p>The number will be much higher than 6.9 million for that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Football is back. And while the numbers are yet to hit regular-season form, a large throng tuned in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-57877","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\/57877","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=57877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}