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Buffalo Bills at Los Angeles Rams

Nielsen average audience: 19,940,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2022-09-08 Thursday
Networks
NBC
Away
Buffalo Bills
Home
Los Angeles Rams
19,940,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2022-09-12

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / TV only · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
19,940,000
Thursday's Bills-Rams NFL Kickoff Game averaged 19.94 million viewers on NBC, marking the smallest linear TV audience for the NFL season opener in four years (2018: Falcons-Eagles: 18.98M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

NFL 2022 season

Week 1 of 18 · 16th of 64 published NFL figures in the 2022 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-30 23:07 UTC
NFL 2022 season ledger

Prior-season comparable

24,810,000
Dallas Cowboys at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
2021-09-09 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
−19.6% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on NBC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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