NBC Sports' SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL features a key NFC West matchup this week, when QB Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks (4-4) host QB Carson Palmer and the first-place Arizona Cardinals (6-2) at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Wash., tonight, Nov. 15, at 8:30 p.m. ET on NBC. Coverage begins with FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA - the most-watched weekly studio show in sports - at 7 p.m. ET.
Both the Seahawks and Cardinals enter the game coming off a bye week preceded by two consecutive victories. Palmer leads the NFC with 20 touchdowns, the most ever by a Cardinals player through the first eight games of a season, while Wilson has bested the Cardinals in four of their last five matchups. With Arizona leading the division by two games over both St. Louis and Seattle, the Seahawks, who have won the NFC West and advanced to the
SUPER BOWL the past two seasons, will be looking to close that gap.
Calling Cardinals-Seahawks are seven-time Emmy Award-winner Al Michaels (play-by-play), in his record 30th season as
THE VOICE of the NFL's premier primetime package; 16-time Emmy Award-winner Cris Collinsworth, who has won the Emmy for Outstanding Event Analyst in each of his six seasons in the
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL booth; and two-time Emmy Award-winning sideline reporter Michele Tafoya.
NBC's coverage of
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL is led by Emmy Award-winning producer Fred Gaudelli and Emmy Award-winning director Drew Esocoff.
Football Night in America, the most-watched studio show in sports, is hosted by 26-time Emmy Award-winner Bob Costas, who will report from CenturyLink Field. Costas will be joined on site by Collinsworth, Tafoya, and two-time
SUPER BOWL winner Hines Ward.
Dan Patrick co-hosts Football Night from
NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn., joined by Super Bowl-winning head coach Tony Dungy, two-time
SUPER BOWL winner Rodney Harrison, Mike Florio of
PRO FOOTBALL TALK on
NBCSN and NBCSports.com, and NFL Insider Peter King. Carolyn Manno will report from MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N. J., on the Patriots-Giants game.
DEMO DOMINANCE - NBC'S
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL #1 AMONG ADULTS 18-49 WITH 28% ADVANTAGE OVER PRIMETIME'S #2 SHOW
After nine weeks featuring tension-filled close games (including two overtimes), a historic battle of unbeatens (6-0 Green Bay vs. 6-0 Denver), and player milestones (Drew Brees' 400th career touchdown pass on the quickest regular-season overtime TD in NFL history; Peyton Manning's record-tying 186th QB win), NBC's
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL has extended its primetime dominance in the Adult 18-49 demographic.
Through the opening nine weeks of the NFL season (10 telecasts), NBC's
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL is averaging a primetime-best 8.6 rating in the coveted Adult 18-49 demographic, marking a 28% advantage over primetime's #2 show (6.7 for The Walking Dead), based on official live + same day national data released by The Nielsen Company. Last season at this point, SNF (8.0 rating) had a 4% advantage over the second-ranked show in the demo (7.7 for The Walking Dead).
SNF's 8.6 rating in A18-49 is the second-best rating in the demo through Week 9 in the 10-season history of
SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on
NBC (only a fraction behind an 8.7 in 2011), and up 8% from this point last season (8.0).
Football Night in America (7:30-8:15 p.m. ET), the most-watched weekly studio show in sports, is averaging 9.7 million viewers - the best start in the show's 10-season history and up 23% from last year at this point (7.9 million). In addition, the 8-8:30 p.m. ET portion of
FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA (including pre-kick coverage), is averaging 14.0 million viewers, and a 5.0 rating among Adults 18-49, which would rank No. 5 among regularly-scheduled primetime shows in the demographic.
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