NEW YORK (AP) -Twenty percent was the number NFL commissioner Roger Goodell threw around last summer.
That was the worst-case scenario projection for the number of games blacked out in local markets this season because tickets didn’t sell out. It wound up at less than 9 percent – higher than the last few years, but still better than any season before 2005.
Instead, the league got an average of 16.6 million viewers for regular-season games, up 14 percent from last year, and the highest total since 1990. The difference between the average audience for NFL games and the average of 8.1 million viewers for all the prime-time programming on the Big Four networks during the current TV season (not including NBC’s “Sunday Night Football”) was 105 percent.
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