{"id":137127,"date":"2018-01-23T15:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T21:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137127"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:51:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:51:43","slug":"nfl-championships-viewership-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=137127","title":{"rendered":"NFL Championships viewership down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-93707\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CBSeye-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CBSeye-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CBSeye-259x175.jpg 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/CBSeye.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is still television&#8217;s biggest star during football season.<\/p>\n<p>The Nielsen company said that more than 40 million people on Sunday watched the NFL&#8217;s two preliminaries for the Super Bowl. Viewership was down 8 percent from the conference championship games a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Night games are generally watched more than afternoon games, but not this year. Brady&#8217;s team played in the afternoon, and New England&#8217;s battle with Jacksonville went down to the wire. <strong>New England&#8217;s win was seen by 44.1 million, compared to the audience of 42.3 million who saw Philadelphia blow out Minnesota in the second game.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In two weeks the NFL finds out if its audience erosion translates to television&#8217;s marquee event, the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is still television&#8217;s biggest star during football season. The Nielsen company said that more than 40 million people on Sunday watched the NFL&#8217;s two preliminaries for the Super Bowl. Viewership was down 8 percent from the conference championship games a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137149,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137127\/revisions\/137149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}