NFL Ratings Slightly Up Through First 8 Weeks

Ryan Mayer
At the midway point of the NFL season, the league is continuing to experience a slight uptick in TV viewership compared to the 2017 season.
Week 7 was the first week this season that the majority of windows were down year-over-year, but the league bounced back once more with a solid Week 8. It started on Thursday night with a Dolphins-Texans matchup that scored a 7.5 rating, up seven percent from 2017. Then, during the weekend slate, CBS scored a big increase with its singleheader gam