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Fox’s Sunday National NFL game wins going away, and football (college & Pro) take 16 of the top 20. Fewer people watched the US Open Mens Final on Sunday than the Monday 10pm WWE RAW telecast. Tiger’s 63 to win the BMW championship didn’t even make the top 20.
Interesting Naming Alert: Many of the pre and post NFL game shows in the list are shorter segments ranging generally from 9-30 minutes. Fox has taken a different tack this year with the 4pm EDT games that never seem to end by 7pm. Fox is now calling this runover “The OT”. While I believe once this game is actually over that on-air the rest of the segment is called the Fox NFL Postgame show, the postgame show seems to be included in the results for The OT which was a 37 minute segment this week.
Full Top 20 Sports Shows:
| RANK | PROGRAMS | NET | Persons Live+SD (million) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fox NFL Sunday - National | FOX | 22.1 |
| 2 | NBC Sunday Night Football | NBC | 18.2 |
| 3 | NBC NFL Thursday Night Special | NBC | 17.8 |
| 4 | CBS NFL Single | CBS | 15.2 |
| 5 | NBC NFL Thursday Pre-Kicks | NBC | 13.6 |
| 6 | Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick | NBC | 12.4 |
| 7 | The OT | FOX | 10.3 |
| 8 | FOX NFL Sunday -Regional | FOX | 10.1 |
| 9 | NBC NFL Sunday Post | NBC | 9.4 |
| 10 | Football Night in America | NBC | 9.2 |
| 11 | NFL Opening Kick-Off Show | NBC | 8.8 |
| 12 | NBC NFL Thursday Post | NBC | 8.7 |
| 13 | Chevy Rock n Roll 400 | ABC | 6.8 |
| 14 | College Football (Florida State/Clemson) | ESPN | 6.7 |
| 15 | ABC College Football Game-Late | ABC | 6.3 |
| 16 | Football Night in America Part 2 | NBC | 5.7 |
| 17 | WWE RAW | USA | 5.6 |
| 18 | US Open Tennis | CBS | 5.4 |
| 19 | CBS NFL Today | CBS | 5.3 |
| 20 | WWE RAW | USA | 5 |
