POSTED: Monday December 14th 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" AGAIN TOPS ALL SUNDAY NIGHT PROGRAMMING

Eagles Win Over Giants is Fourth Highest Rated SNF Game This Season

  Tops Oprah Winfrey Special on ABC by 67%




       NEW YORK – Dec. 14, 2009 – Last night’s “NBC Sunday Night
Football” game was the No. 1 broadcast on Sunday night for the 12th
time in 13 weeks with the Philadelphia Eagles 45-38 victory over the
New York Giants in a crucial NFC East game.  “SNF” was again the No. 1
show of the night in the metered markets (excludes overruns of NFL day
games) on a night that faced original programming including ABC’s Oprah
Winfrey Christmas special, CBS’s 60 Minutes and Fox’s The Simpsons,
Cleveland Show and Family Guy.  Head-to-head from 10-11 p.m., “Sunday
Night Football” out-rated ‘Christmas at the White House: An Oprah
Primetime Special’ on ABC by 67 percent.



FOURTH HIGHEST OVERNIGHT OF THE SEASON: “Sunday Night Football”
registered a 13.8 overnight rating and a 22 share (from 8:30-11:45 p.m.
ET), fourth highest of the season.  That rating is up 48 percent from
last year’s Week 14 game (Redskins-Ravens, 9.3/14).



The rating peaked during the second quarter (9:30-10 p.m. ET) at a
14.3/22 when the Eagles took a 30-17 lead.  Below are the half-hour
ratings (Times ET):

TIME            RATING/SHARE

8:30-9,         12.7/20

9-9:30,         13.9/21

9:30-10,        14.3/22

10-10:30,       13.4/21

10:30-11,       13.9/22

11-11:30,       14.2/24

11:30-11:45,    14.1/26



TOP 5 SNF GAMES THIS SEASON (based on overnight ratings):

1. Week 2, Giants-Cowboys, 16.5/27

2. Week 10, Patriots-Colts, 15.1/24

3. Week 9, Cowboys-Eagles, 14.3/23

T4. Week 14, Eagles-Giants, 13.8/22

T4. Thursday NFL Opener, Titans-Steelers, 13.8/23

6. Week 13, Vikings-Cardinals, 13.7/20



TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR SNF WEEK 13:

1. Philadelphia, 33.4/46

2. Norfolk, 19.8/29

3. New Orleans, 19.7/27

4. Las Vegas, 18.9/28

5. Richmond, 18.1/26

6. New York, 17.5/27

7. Washington D.C., 17.1/28

8. Nashville, 17.0/25

9. San Diego, 16.5/27

10. Baltimore, 16.4/25



**Viewership numbers will be available when national ratings are released tomorrow.**




       Members of the media can get more information about NBC
Universal and its programming on the NBC Universal Media Village Web
site at www.nbcumv.com.

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