Taylor Swift was back in the stands cheering on Travis Kelce — but she wasn’t alone this time!
12.09.2023 - 21:31 / deadline.com
The NFL regular season is finally back to breathe some life into linear television.
Audiences were raring to go for the Thursday night kickoff game, delivering a huge audience for NBC’s telecast of the Detroit Lions victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. The game averaged 27.5M viewers to rank as the largest NFL kickoff game audience since 2015, up 24% over last year.
The network followed it up with another strong audience for Sunday night’s matchup between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants. That Sunday Night Football broadcast drew 21.8M viewers, which is down a few million from last year’s audience of around 24M. Still, it was a successful opening weekend for NBC, which touted a 7% overall lift in viewership across its two-game kickoff weekend versus last year.
The winner of the week, however, appears to be CBS’ late Sunday afternoon Eagles vs. Patriots matchup, which was up 28% over the same window last season. The 21.4M viewers delivered the biggest Week 1 audience for the network since 2015.
ABC is also taking home a win for its Week 1 Monday Night Football audience. The Jets vs. Bills brought in 10M viewers, which is up significantly from the 8M who tuned in for the Week 1 MNF game last season — though that might also have something to do with Aaron Rodgers sustaining a season-ending injury within minutes of the first quarter.
That leaves three additional games — both of Fox’s Sunday matchups, as well as CBS’ early kickoff. All three drew much smaller audiences than Week 1 last year, though all were still above 10M.
Even with some deflated audiences, the networks are surely excited to have pro football back on their schedules. After a dry summer full of reruns, all the broadcasters are entering the
Taylor Swift was back in the stands cheering on Travis Kelce — but she wasn’t alone this time!
Travis Kelce was allegedly not happy after the Sunday Night Football NFL game last night.
Aaron Rodgers returned to MetLife Stadium following his injury on the field during the New York Jets season opener on Monday Night Football.
Taylor Swift made an appearance on Sunday Night Football to cheer on Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce in a game against the New York Jets.
Taylor Swift is expected to be in attendance at the Kansas City Chiefs Sunday night football game against the New York Jets.
They’re playing a football game tonight in East Rutherford, N.J. It will be nationally televised, sold-out, and features the defending NFL champion Kansas City Chiefs against the upstart New York Jets.
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. According to a rep for StubHub, since Taylor Swift made her notable appearance at the Chiefs game last weekend (amid circulating rumors of a budding romance with Travis Kelce), the Jets have sold more than double the tickets for this Sunday’s game against the Chiefs than any single day since the season started. If you can’t make the game in person (although tickets are still available on Stubhub), you can catch all the action — on the field and in the stands — from home.
Having conquered the music biz, about to conquer the movie biz and proving one of this era’s most powerful economic and cultural forces, Taylor Swift is lending some of her superstar power to the NFL and NBC.
As the rumoured romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce heats up, the NBC promotions team is going all-in for a new Swift-themed “Sunday Night Football” promo.
As the rumoured romance between Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce heats up, the NBC promotions team is going all-in for a new Swift-themed “Sunday Night Football” promo.
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Chris Stapleton and rap legend Snoop Dogg have teamed up to cover rock icon Phil Collins‘ ‘In The Air Tonight’ as the NFL’s new Monday Night Football theme song – listen to it below.Today (September 19), ESPN took to social media to share the new Monday Night Football anthem, which also features drummer Cindy Blackman Santana taking on the iconic drum fills of the original track.Watch the three artists breathe new life into ‘In The Air Tonight’ below.Can you feel it?
The power and popularity of Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight,” which first famously appeared on TV in Season 1 of Michael Mann’s Miami Vice, has outlasted 30 years of screen appearances in everything from Risky Business to a Cadbury chocolate bar ad to a fictional Mike Tyson’s affinity for the tune in the original Hangover. Now, it’s been reinvented as the theme song for one of TV’s most popular shows.
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ABC is loading up on a slew of extra NFL games in a bid to bolster its fall schedule.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor “Monday Night Football” was for many years a staple of ABC’s Monday-night line-up before it moved to ESPN in 2006. This fall, it will be so again. ABC will air ten more “MNF” games than previously expected this season, simulcasting then with Disney TV sibling ESPN in a move that will help the broadcast network as the industry grapples with ongoing strikes by WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
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After Amazon Prime Video spent the offseason doing what tech giants are wont to do — analyze and iterate — the company will kick off Thursday Night Football 2.0 tonight as the Minnesota Vikings visit the Philadelphia Eagles.