Editing NFL on CBS (section)

==Nielsen ratings==
The Sunday afternoon, October 14, 2007, game between the [[2007 New England Patriots season|New England Patriots]] and [[2007 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]] on CBS, was viewed by 29.1 million people,<ref>{{cite web|title=CBS' Pats/Cowboys Matchup Reaches 29.1 Mil|url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003659427|publisher=Mediaweek.com|date=October 15, 2007|access-date=April 18, 2012}}</ref> making it the most-watched NFL Sunday game since the [[1996 Dallas Cowboys season|Dallas Cowboys]]–[[1996 San Francisco 49ers season|San Francisco 49ers]] game on November 10, [[1996 NFL season|1996]] on [[Fox NFL|Fox]] (29.7 million viewers), according to [[Nielsen Media Research]] data. The game was also the most-watched television program for the week of October 8–14, drawing nine million viewers more than the CBS crime drama ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'' (19.8 million viewers), and was the most-watched program of the season.

The November 4, 2007, broadcast of a game between the [[2007 New England Patriots season|New England Patriots]] and [[2007 Indianapolis Colts season|Indianapolis Colts]] drew a 20.1 rating<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Patriots-Colts, CBS|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/12/17/media.awards/2.html|magazine=Sports Illustrated|quote=It was dubbed Super Bowl 41½ and it attracted an audience worthy of, well, American Idol. CBS drew a 20.1 rating and 33.8 million viewers for the Patriots-Colts game on November 4, the highest-rated regular-season Sunday-afternoon NFL telecast on any network since Fox drew a 22.2 for a Cowboys-49ers game in '96. The game was the highest-rated program since the Academy Awards. If only those viewers would tune into Katie Couric}}</ref> and 33.8 million viewers for CBS.

During the 17-week [[2008 NFL season|2008 season]] (September 4 – December 28, 2008), CBS' regular-season game telecasts were watched by an estimated cumulative audience of 150.9 million viewers, 14% higher than [[NBC Sunday Night Football|NBC]]'s 132.4 million viewers, 3% higher than Fox's 146.9 million viewers, and 52% higher than [[Monday Night Football|ESPN]]'s 99.4 million. The cumulative audience is based on the total number of viewers (persons 2+) who watched at least six minutes of NFL game coverage since the start of the 2008 regular season.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}}

For the 2009 season, the network's regular-season telecasts averaged 19.509 million viewers (counting only seven airings during the season by Nielsen).<ref>{{cite news|title=Final 2009-10 Broadcast Primetime Show Average Viewership|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/06/16/final-2009-10-broadcast-primetime-show-average-viewership/54336|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121165731/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2010/06/16/final-2009-10-broadcast-primetime-show-average-viewership/54336|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 21, 2010|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|publisher=[[Zap2It]]/[[Tribune Media]]|date=June 16, 2010}}</ref> For the first thirteen weeks of the 2013 season, the CBS game telecasts averaged 26.5 million viewers.<ref>{{cite news|title=The NFL on CBS Denver-Kansas City Rematch Ties as Highest NFL Rating of Season on Any Network|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/12/04/the-nfl-on-cbs-denver-kansas-city-rematch-ties-as-highest-nfl-rating-of-season-on-any-network/220221|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214014033/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/12/04/the-nfl-on-cbs-denver-kansas-city-rematch-ties-as-highest-nfl-rating-of-season-on-any-network/220221/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 14, 2015|work=TV by the Numbers|publisher=Zap2It/Tribune Media|date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>

The February 11, 2024 broadcast of [[Super Bowl LVIII]] on CBS and [[NFL on Nickelodeon|Nickelodeon]] became the [[List of most-watched television broadcasts#United States|most watched telecast in U.S. television history]], averaging a combined 123.7 million viewers. The record was since shattered by next year's [[Super Bowl LIX]] televised on [[NFL on Fox|Fox]] and streamed on [[Tubi]], averaging an approximate 127.7 million viewers.