Green Bay Packers’ Wild Card Victory Pulls Huge Saturday Ratings for NBC

Green Bay Packers Wild Card NFL

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Sunday Night Football may be over, but NBC managed to notch one more pigskin ratings victory in the post-season.

The wild card game between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings concluded the network's NFL coverage last night, with fast national ratings giving the game a huge primetime draw of 26 million viewers.

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In the key demo of adults 18-49, preliminary returns give the game a 9.2 rating among adults 18-49.

All other post-season NFL games will air on Fox or CBS prior to the latter network's Feb. 3 broadcast of the Super Bowl.

Elsewhere on Saturday, Fox aired a new episode of Cops (0.8 adults rating) and continued its burn-off of The Mob Doctor, which pulled a 0.6 rating in the demo.

Michael O'Connell

Green Bay Packers’ Wild Card Victory Pulls Huge Saturday Ratings for NBC

Green Bay Packers Wild Card NFL

Jonathan Daniel/Getty

Sunday Night Football may be over, but NBC managed to notch one more pigskin ratings victory in the post-season.

The wild card game between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings concluded the network's NFL coverage last night, with fast national ratings giving the game a huge primetime draw of 26 million viewers.

PHOTOS: Touchdown! Hollywood's Best Football Movies

In the key demo of adults 18-49, preliminary returns give the game a 9.2 rating among adults 18-49.

All other post-season NFL games will air on Fox or CBS prior to the latter network's Feb. 3 broadcast of the Super Bowl.

Elsewhere on Saturday, Fox aired a new episode of Cops (0.8 adults rating) and continued its burn-off of The Mob Doctor, which pulled a 0.6 rating in the demo.

Michael O'Connell