{"id":876169,"date":"2026-10-09T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:02:13","slug":"lions-panthers-slips-under-20-million-viewers-on-sunday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876169\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions-Panthers slips under 20 million viewers on Sunday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lions don\u2019t seem to be the draw they\u2019ve become in recent years. And the Panthers are still struggling to find national footing.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night\u2019s game between Detroit and Carolina averaged 19.5 million viewers for NBC, per Nielsen.<\/p>\n<p>The first four NBC games of the 2026 season had exceeded 20 million viewers, with the Week 3 Rams-Broncos game attracting 20.8 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night\u2019s game was up against an MLB playoff game between the Atlanta Braves and L.A. Dodgers. The baseball game siphoned 3.33 million viewers away from football.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, the number for Lions-Panthers suggests that the bloom is off the rose as to the resurgence of Detroit, which became much more of a national attraction in 2023. But Detroit has slipped back toward a middle-of-the-pack team in 2026, and the lack of an intense following seems to reflect that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lions don\u2019t seem to be the draw they\u2019ve become in recent years. And the Panthers are still&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-876169","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\/876169","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=876169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}