Lions-Cowboys Leads NFL Week 6 On Fox As ‘Monday Night Football’ Gets Boost With ABC Simulcast

Fox led the pack in Week 6 of the NFL regular season with 24.1M viewers tuning in to watch the Detroit Lions defeat the Dallas Cowboys.

The audience was down about 8% from last year’s Eagles-Jets matchup, but it was way up over Week 5, when just 14M tuned in for a Sunday afternoon regional single header. The first half of Fox’s double header on Sunday drew about 12M viewers, down 13% from last year.

Speaking of single headers, CBS raked in 16.8M for its Sunday afternoon broadcast, which was up 26% year-over-year.

Monday Night Football got 17.3M tuning in across ABC and ESPN for the Buffalo Bills’ narrow win over the New York Jets, besting NBC’s Sunday Night Football for the first time this season.

Disney certainly benefits when ABC simulcasts the games with ESPN, which will happen five more times this season.

MNF was down year-over-year (from 19.64M for last year’s Cowboys-Chargers), but so was NBC’s SNF, which averaged 15.44M viewers for Bengals-Giants. That marks the least-watched SNF in four years.

Prime Video kicked off Week 6 with 12.3M viewers for its Thursday Night Football Falcons-Bucs showdown. It was the second consecutive week of annual growth for TNF, with Prime Video averaging 20% higher year-over-year through four games this season.