NEW YORK, N.Y. - The New York Giants' victory over the Dallas Cowboys earned the highest overnight rating in the six-year history of Sunday night football on NBC.
According to data released Monday by The Nielsen Company, the Giants' 31-14 win to take the NFC East got a 17.1 overnight rating and a 27 share, 36 per cent higher than last year's Week 17 game between the St. Louis Rams and Seattle Seahawks to decide the NFC West.
The previous high Sunday night overnight high was for the Dallas Cowboys-New York Jets game in Week 1, 16.9/27.
Overnight ratings measure the 55 largest TV markets, covering nearly 70 per cent of the U.S. Each overnight rating point represents about 735,000 TV homes.
The rating is the percentage of all homes with TVs, whether or not they are in use. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.
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