ESPN's 2016 MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL regular season finale - a Dallas Cowboys 42-21 victory over the Detroit Lions - delivered a total live audience (TV + Streaming) of 18,964,000 average viewers and a 10.1 US household rating. This is ESPN's highest-rated and most-viewed MNF telecast since the Washington Redskins-Dallas Cowboys MNF game on October 27, 2014, which delivered a total live audience of 19,083,000 average viewers and an 11.4 US household rating.
The total live audience for Lions-Cowboys is an 18 percent gain from last year's MNF regular season finale (Cincinnati Bengals vs. Denver Broncos), which delivered a total live audience of 16,011,000 average viewers and a 9.4 US household rating. Lions-Cowboys also surpassed the former 2016 season high - the week 4 New York Giants-Minnesota
VIKINGS game on October 3 (13,494,000 average viewers, 8.0 US household rating).
Lions-Cowboys ranks as the highest-rated and most-viewed sporting telecast on cable since the
COLLEGE FOOTBALL Playoff National Championship sustaining telecast on
ESPN in January (13.8 rating, 23,650,000 viewers).
This marks the sixth time in ESPN's 11 seasons of televising MNF that a Cowboys game is ESPN's highest-rated and most-viewed MNF game of the season.
Image courtesy of ESPN press
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