Telecasts · NFL
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears
22,100,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
final · figures last changed 2025-09-11
Published figures
JSON ↓Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / TV only · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
In the season debut of "Monday Night Football," Vikings-Bears averaged 22.1 million across ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 — trailing only Bills-Jets in 2023 (22.6M, panel only) as the most-watched Week 1 edition of "MNF" since ESPN began airing the series.Sports Media Watch, verbatim
22,100,000
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
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