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 |
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| 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