Seattle topped the local market NFL franchise ratings for the week of December 21-27, 2015 with a 44.8/73 household rating/share for the Rams-Seahawks week 16 contest.
44.8% of the Seatle-Tacoma market is around 791,000 homes (by contrast 17.2% of the NYC market is around 1.3 million homes). Here’s a list ranking the number of homes in each Nielsen market.
via the NFL (note the table only lists NFL markets where an NFL game was the #1 telecast for the week, if your local team played a game that week and isn’t in the list it means that locally something else out-rated the game):
|
Week of 12/21-12/27 |
|
|
HH |
HH |
RTG |
|
Market |
Game |
Date |
RTG |
SHR |
Rank |
|
Seattle |
St. Louis at Seattle |
12/27/15 |
44.8 |
73 |
1 |
|
Minneapolis |
New York Giants at Minnesota |
12/27/15 |
41.4 |
64 |
1 |
|
Milwaukee |
Green Bay at Arizona |
12/27/15 |
40.5 |
65 |
1 |
|
Boston |
New England at New York Jets |
12/27/15 |
38.5 |
71 |
1 |
|
Buffalo |
Dallas at Buffalo |
12/27/15 |
37.7 |
61 |
1 |
|
New Orleans |
Detroit at New Orleans* |
12/21/15 |
36.2 |
53 |
1 |
|
Kansas City |
Cleveland at Kansas City |
12/27/15 |
36.1 |
67 |
1 |
|
Pittsburgh |
Pittsburgh at Baltimore |
12/27/15 |
35.9 |
65 |
1 |
|
Charlotte |
Carolina at Atlanta |
12/27/15 |
33.4 |
62 |
1 |
|
Indianapolis |
Indianapolis at Miami |
12/27/15 |
32.4 |
56 |
1 |
|
Phoenix |
Green Bay at Arizona |
12/27/15 |
32.0 |
60 |
1 |
|
Philadelphia |
Washington at Philadelphia |
12/26/15 |
30.0 |
49 |
1 |
|
Cleveland |
Cleveland at Kansas City |
12/27/15 |
27.6 |
47 |
1 |
|
Baltimore |
Pittsburgh at Baltimore |
12/27/15 |
27.4 |
57 |
1 |
|
Detroit |
San Francisco at Detroit |
12/27/15 |
25.0 |
47 |
1 |
|
Dallas |
Dallas at Buffalo |
12/27/15 |
24.8 |
46 |
1 |
|
Washington D.C. |
Washington at Philadelphia |
12/26/15 |
24.5 |
48 |
1 |
|
Houston |
Houston at Tennessee |
12/27/15 |
22.9 |
45 |
1 |
|
St. Louis |
St. Louis at Seattle |
12/27/15 |
22.5 |
39 |
1 |
|
Chicago |
Chicago at Tampa Bay |
12/27/15 |
22.4 |
49 |
1 |
|
Atlanta |
Carolina at Atlanta |
12/27/15 |
21.6 |
44 |
1 |
|
Cincinnati |
Pittsburgh at Baltimore |
12/27/15 |
18.0 |
34 |
1 |
|
San Diego |
San Diego at Oakland |
12/24/15 |
17.9 |
45 |
1 |
|
Jacksonville |
Jacksonville at New Orleans |
12/27/15 |
17.9 |
29 |
1 |
|
Tampa Bay |
Chicago at Tampa Bay |
12/27/15 |
17.7 |
39 |
1 |
|
Denver |
Green Bay at Arizona |
12/27/15 |
17.7 |
36 |
1 |
|
New York |
New England at New York Jets |
12/27/15 |
17.2 |
36 |
1 |
|
Nashville |
Houston at Tennessee |
12/27/15 |
16.3 |
31 |
1 |
|
Miami |
Indianapolis at Miami |
12/27/15 |
12.7 |
31 |
1 |
* Local affiliate & ESPN combined
Source: NFL & The Nielsen Company