NFL Local Market Ratings Rankings, Week 1
Buffalo edges out Kansas City for the household ratings win (though a higher percentage of households using TV were on the game in KC).
Buffalo lost the game, but still won the local market TV ratings for the first week of NFL action.
The rating (RTG) below is the household rating. Read as “during the game, on average, 46.2% of the TV households in Buffalo had the game on.”
The share (SH) below is the % of households in the market who were watching TV at the time. Read as “on average, 78% of the households with a TV on at the time were watching the game.”
Note the “000s” below is the number of households and is not the number of viewers.
Yes, 5.4% of the Los Angeles market is more households than 46.2% of Buffalo, but this ranking is sorted by household rating. Sorry, Rams fans!
Nielsen local market data sorted by household rating: