18.8 million watched Cowboys-Eagles Monday night game
Monday night's NFL game between Cowboys and Eagles drew 18.8 million viewers.
The Brief
- ESPN reported 18.8 million viewers for the Week 7 Monday night game.
- Over a million watched alternate casts on ESPN2 and NFL Network.
- World Series Game 3 on Fox had not yet released viewership numbers.
The NFL's Week 7 Monday night game between the Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles attracted 18.8 million viewers, according to ESPN.
ESPN also noted that more than one million viewers tuned in to alternate casts on ESPN2 and NFL Network, though specific numbers for the ManningCast and Next Gen Stats were not provided.
The Cowboys-Eagles matchup faced competition from Game 3 of the World Series, which aired on Fox. Fox has not yet released viewership figures for that game.
Typically, the absence of a network's viewership announcement suggests the numbers were not particularly high.
In previous years, the NFL and World Series avoided direct competition by moving Monday night games to Thursday nights in the late 1970s and avoiding the first Sunday night of the World Series through 2009.
In 2010, the NFL took control of scheduling, shifting the World Series to Friday and Saturday for Games 1 and 2. Experts suggest baseball would benefit from avoiding Sunday, Monday, and Thursday for World Series games.
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