Gang-Tackling TV’s Ratings Roster

Be it on broadcast or cable, football is the only game in town

Television is a football-delivery mechanism that occasionally transmits the odd episode of NCIS, so it should come as no surprise that National Football League and college games accounted for the biggest ratings of 2011.

According to Nielsen, NFL programming served up nine of the year’s top 10 largest audiences, while the BCS National Championship Game and Monday Night Football dominated on cable.

With an average draw of 111 million total viewers, Fox’s Feb. 6 coverage of Super Bowl XLV became the single most-watched broadcast of all time.

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