News: Cowboys Help Propel Record Ratings: Sunday Night Football Ties American Idol for Most Consecutive Se

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Cowboys Help Propel Record Ratings: Sunday Night Football Ties American Idol for Most Consecutive Seasons as TV’s #1 Prime Time Show
by Kristi Scales

http://www.5pointsblue.com/cowboys-...ol-consecutive-seasons-tvs-1-prime-time-show/


The NFL continued its dominance in television ratings last season. NBC’s Sunday Night Football was the most-watched programming in American television for the sixth straight year, tying American Idol for the most consecutive years atop the charts (since 1950).

Sunday Night Football’s streak began in the 2011-12 television season. American Idol accomplished the feat from 2005-06 through 2010-2011. The ratings, compiled by The Nielsen Company, are based on ‘live-plus-same day data’.

Sunday Night Football was previously tied for second place at 5 consecutive seasons with The Cosby Show (1985-86 through 1989-90) and All in the Family (1971-72 through 1975-1976).

The Cowboys played four times last season on Sunday night, including back-to-back weeks in December when the Bucs-Cowboys game was flexed to prime time in favor of the originally scheduled Bengals/Steelers matchup in Week 15. Four appearances on NBC’s SNF is the maximum allowed per team in the regular season...

 

[Teague31]

#America's Team

 

[Proximo]

I swear they would've put us on prime time every week once Dak/Zeke really took off.

And I HATE prime time. Give us the 1pm ET slot every week and I'm good to go.

 

[EST_1986]

I swear they would've put us on prime time every week once Dak/Zeke really took off.

And I HATE prime time. Give us the 1pm ET slot every week and I'm good to go.

I like the 3:25 slot so I can watch the other games on redzone

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

I swear they would've put us on prime time every week once Dak/Zeke really took off.

And I HATE prime time. Give us the 1pm ET slot every week and I'm good to go.

I like they day games vs the night games since I liven in the Eastern time zone.

However last year was nice.

I think I only had to watch 2-3 game tops on the internet and the rest of them were on regular TV for me aka no NFL Ticket.

Of course it helped that we played the AFC North which we get all of the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincy games around this area.

 

[Proximo]

I like they day games vs the night games since I liven in the Eastern time zone.

However last year was nice.

I think I only had to watch 2-3 game tops on the internet and the rest of them were on regular TV for me aka no NFL Ticket.

Of course it helped that we played the AFC North which we get all of the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincy games around this area.

Ahhh yes. I am in Pennsylvania and pony up for the Sunday Ticket via Directv each year. Last year was by far the least I used it for actual Cowboys games. Between the geography of our opponents and all of the national/prime time games we were very easy to find on tv.

 

[lqmac1]

I swear they would've put us on prime time every week once Dak/Zeke really took off.

And I HATE prime time. Give us the 1pm ET slot every week and I'm good to go.

No! I'm still too hungover at that point

 

[dogunwo]

I like they day games vs the night games since I liven in the Eastern time zone.

However last year was nice.

I think I only had to watch 2-3 game tops on the internet and the rest of them were on regular TV for me aka no NFL Ticket.

Of course it helped that we played the AFC North which we get all of the Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincy games around this area.

It probably helps somewhat living in AFC area too, so there isn't much conflict with Fox games.