New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills

Name: New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills
Creator: RatingsReference
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2023-01-08 · NFL · CBS

22,730,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2023-01-10

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast / split window (“featuring Patriots-Bills”) · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

CBS averaged an 11.8 rating and 22.73 million viewers for the first half of its Week 18 NFL doubleheader (featuring Patriots-Bills), up 29% in ratings and 35% in viewership from last year (mostly Steelers-Ravens: 9.1, 16.86M) and the most-watched game of Week 18. Sports Media Watch, verbatim

22,730,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksCBS

AwayBills

HomePatriots

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens

2022-01-09 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

16,860,000

Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers

2022-01-09 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

14,170,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on CBS, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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New England Patriots at Buffalo Bills (2023-01-08): 22,730,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2023-01-10, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/01/nfl-week-18-ratings-bills-return-field-tops-viewership/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nfl-bills-patriots-2023-01-08, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020