NFL Ratings: Wilcard Weekend (January 6 - 7, 2018)

The First weekend of the NFL Playoffs featured the WildCard round, with all four broadcast partners airing one game each. On Saturday, ESPN/ABC kicked things off with the lowest rated game of the weekend. NBC's primetime game, only managed to top ESPN by a few hundred thousand viewers, but rose the demo by over 10%.

On Sunday, CBS had the regular 1PM kickoff time and generated 25.3 million viewers and a 7.1 demo. FOX had the late game, starting at 4:40 PM, and posted the weekend's top numbers and beat last year's game in the same time slot.

Net	Game	P2*	A18-49
FOX	Sun 4:40 pm: CAR v NO	31,115	9.2
CBS	Sun 1:10 PM: BUF v JAX	25,295	7.1
NBC	Sat 8:15 PM: ATL v LAR	22,815	7.0
ABC/ESPN	Sat 4:20 PM: TEN v KC	22,112	6.2

* Viewership (,000)