NEW YORK (AP) -A record 19.3 million viewers for a Thursday night opener tuned in to watch the Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Miami Dolphins 28-17 in the fourth year since the NFL switched its schedule to begin Thursday nights. NBC's first regular-season broadcast in eight years had a 12.6 household rating and a 21 share, Nielsen Media Research said Friday. It was the highest rating since the first NFL Thursday night kickoff on network television in 2003 had a 12.9 rating. Each ratings point represents 1,102,000 households, or 1 percent of the nation's estimated 110.2 million TV homes. The share is the percentage of in-use televisions tuned to a given show.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. |
