Steelers-saints Paris Game Draws 7.7 Million Viewers

WHO:

NBC Sports - The Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles were the teams in the Week 7 Monday-night game.

NBC Sports - ESPN reported the Cowboys-Eagles audience; the article also mentioned the ManningCast and a Next Gen Stats production.

NBC Sports - Fox broadcast Game 3 of the World Series.

NBC Sports - The Pittsburgh Steelers and New Orleans Saints played the Week 7 game discussed in the article.

NBC Sports - ESPN provided the audience figure cited by the article.

NBC Sports - The article says NFL Network carried the international games referenced.

steelers.com - The Steelers’ official team site provided viewing and listening information for a separate Steelers-Browns game.

Variety - CBS’s newsmagazine “60 Minutes” was the subject of the article.

WHAT:

NBC Sports - The Cowboys-Eagles game drew 18.8 million viewers, despite the teams entering with a combined 4-8 record.

NBC Sports - More than one million viewers watched alternative broadcasts on ESPN2 and NFL Network; ESPN did not specify the audiences for the ManningCast or Next Gen Stats production.

NBC Sports - World Series Game 1 drew 12.259 million viewers and Game 2 drew 10.854 million; Fox had not announced Game 3’s viewership.

NBC Sports - The NFL moved a Monday-night game that conflicted with the World Series to the prior Thursday night in the late 1970s and avoided the World Series’ first Sunday night through 2009.

NBC Sports - The NFL began scheduling against the World Series in 2010; the series now plays Games 1 and 2 on Friday and Saturday.

NBC Sports - The Steelers-Saints game averaged 7.7 million viewers, according to ESPN.

NBC Sports - The game was the fourth consecutive Sunday-morning game and drew the third-highest audience for any international game on NFL Network.

NBC Sports - Four European games played in October—three in London and one in France—averaged 7.1 million viewers on NFL Network.

NBC Sports - The article says Sunday-morning football draws fewer viewers than Sunday-afternoon, Sunday-evening, Monday-night, or Thursday football, but more than other television programming at that time.

NBC Sports - The article says an expansion to 16 international games per year could lead to more Sunday-morning games and smaller audiences for pregame shows airing from noon to 1:00 p.m. ET.

Variety - “60 Minutes” drew a notably low audience for its fifth episode of the season’s cycle after CBS aired no strong football lead-in; the excerpt gives no audience number.

steelers.com - The site describes Spanish-language broadcasts and notifications, an Ireland listening partnership with Off The Ball, and NFL Game Pass International access to live games, replays, condensed games, NFL RedZone, NFL Network, and NFL Films/Media content.

WHERE:

NBC Sports - The international games were played in London and France.

steelers.com - The Steelers-Browns game information refers to Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Irish fans could listen to the broadcast and watch with other fans at Kennedy’s Pub and Restaurant in Dublin.

WHEN:

NBC Sports - The Steelers-Saints game was identified as a Week 7 game and was played on Sunday morning.

steelers.com - Game Pass International was launched for the 2025 season; the Steelers-Browns kickoff for listeners in Ireland was listed as 6:00 p.m. local time.

HOW:

steelers.com - Game Pass International was launched by the NFL in partnership with DAZN for fans outside the United States, Canada, China, and specified sanctioned territories; content is available on major devices.

The Cowboys-Eagles Monday-night game drew 18.8 million viewers, despite the teams entering with a combined four wins and eight losses, while more than a million viewers watched alternative broadcasts. The Steelers-Saints Sunday-morning game averaged 7.7 million viewers, the third-highest audience for an NFL Network international game, and four October games in London and France averaged 7.1 million. “60 Minutes” drew a notably low audience after CBS aired without a strong football lead-in, while Fox had not announced viewership for World Series Game 3.