PATS-COLTS GET HIGHEST REG. SEASON RATING SINCE ‘86: SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY reports that “CBS earned a 22.5/39 overnight Nielsen rating for Patriots-Colts yesterday afternoon, marking the highest overnight for a regular-season Sunday afternoon NFL game since ‘86.”
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The broadcast will likely turn out to be “the highest-rated program on television since the Academy Awards on ABC in February, which earned a 26.4/42 overnight.”
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We expect both of those records to go down tonight, with the WWE set to broadcast a poignant retrospective of the life and times of the late, great Fabulous Moolah on Monday Night Raw.







