Sep
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Ray Rice Mess Doesn't Deter Viewers From 'Thursday Night Football' on CBS
Posted in: UncategorizedIt looks like the Ray Rice mess didn’t hurt the ratings for CBS’s debut of “Thursday Night Football.”
The debut broadcast of the franchise on CBS and NFL Network averaged 20.8 million viewers, CBS said Friday afternoon. As expected, that trounced the audience that NFL Network was able to pull in alone a year earlier, when the equivalent game averaged 11 million viewers.
The 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. hours on CBS averaged 19.4 million viewers, according to the network, more than triple the average on CBS on the equivalent Thursday in 2013. Programming a year earlier was admittedly mixed, however: a rerun of “The Big Bang Theory,” a preview of CBS’s upcoming new fall shows, “Big Brother” and a rerun of “Elementary.”
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