So is Kornheiser officially gone from MNF yet? I noticed he stopped talking for about 3/4 of the broadcast after Jimmy Kimmel called him out and no one seemed to care.

I just hope they don't feel the need to replace him with Stink, Greenberg, Golic, or, even worse, Cowherd (I'll figure out how my channel block on my cable box works if that happens). The unofficial two-man booth seemed to work about as good as an ESPN-run broadcast was going to work.

NBC's broadcast was actually pretty good last year until they stopped using that Bud Light commercial set and it became "Keith Olbermann & 5 Other Guys Who Are Much Less Important Than Me" this year. I couldn't bear to watch it.

I think you miss the point on ESPN's comparison. Their Monday night broadcast doesn't compete with the other games on other networks. They are strictly competing for viewers against other cable channels. That's why the comparison to High School Musical is valid. Back when ABC was still doing MNF they began losing to WWF of all things. That's why they felt it was a better investment to move it to ESPN. One of the big 3 can't have any programming lose to a cable broadcast.

Of course, this statement doesn't take away the fact that they apparently lost 8.9% of viewership. That's scary for them, but still pretty much in line with the other networks.

You say CBS is up 8.6% but then you post +/- -8.6% which to me means down 8.6%
which is it?
your posting of the figures couldn't be any more confusing -- could it? geez!
a 2nd grader could make an easier to read way to post the numbers.

NBC numbers were down because they wound up with a lot of dog games, as well as falling victim to becoming NEBC (New England Broadcasting Company). But the bottom line with NFL ratings and numbers is this: for all the major nets, NFL football is a loss leader, allowing them to promote all of their other programming and setting higher ad rates in years where they have the Super Bowl.

Agreed that regardless of the numbers reported, the broadcasting of NFL games serves as a platform to promote their shows before as large an audience as any sport can generate. And also agreed any numbers coming out on MNF relates back to cable competition. Saying prayers Tony K is the one who gets whacked this year - perhaps just Tirico and Jaws a la Michaels and Madden?

what do expect from someone who counts band shots and love blogs about it

Was that English Anon 3:13? I'm confused. And yes CBS' numbers were a positive 8.6%....sorry about that.

Now onto to the constructive comments....Good point Anon 1:44. I think I might be the one comparing apples to oranges.

I'm surprised that the raitngs for Sunday night Football are down considering that they have flexable scheduling witch you would think they should give them better match ups and in turn beter raings, but I guess not.

Maybe the Sunday night and Monday night shows are just getting better? I know I watched Heroes more often than I did MNF.

Or maybe ESPN and NBC should consider having an announcing rotation, so we don't have to hear the same a-holes every time.

Plus, ESPN can't figure out what they're doing with PTI. Last year, they just do it with subs half of the NFL season because apparently the MNF game takes it out of Tony both Tuesday and Wednesday, and this year they lugged Wilbon around with him and spent the halftime show screaming over each other and the halftime shows, rather than just each other like they usually do. BAM!

I see espn is down, but they aren't down "10 million" from last year's average. I think it's around 1 million. You should check that. Think you added a zero by mistake.

its intesign to see tht FOX beat cbs in the riangs considering tht they had the pats and fox didnt have the cowobys tthat often becaue other networks like NFL net and ESPN taking some of their games away foem them but they still were able to beat CBS in the ratings.

Yep it's 1 million. Thanks and that's fixed. Anon, NFC still gets better ratings than the NFC for some reason. The Pats helped a lot but it wasn't quite enough to close the distance.

I think next year they might take them though.

People at fox were complaing that the Cowboys were going to be on the network fewer tiems than useal and because of that their rairngs were going to be lower than before, but that didn't happned by looking at the final ratings this season.

Also, there are unconfirmed reports that part of the lower rating for the Football Night in America is a protest against Olbermann's ultraliberal political views, as seen on Countdown on MSNBC.