Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Detroit Lions

Name: Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Detroit Lions
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2025-10-20 · NFL · ABC · ESPN

18,800,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2025-10-24

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

In the first half of this week's "Monday Night Football" doubleheader, Buccaneers-Lions averaged a combined 18.8 million viewers across ABC and ESPN — marking the largest Week 7 "MNF" audience since Jets-Patriots on ABC in 1998. Sports Media Watch, verbatim

18,800,000

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

On the record

NetworksABC · ESPN

AwayTampa Bay Buccaneers

HomeDetroit Lions

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Buffalo Bills at New York Jets

2024-10-14 · ESPN · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

17,300,000

New York Giants at Pittsburgh Steelers

2024-10-28 · ESPN · ABC · ESPN+ · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

13,340,000

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 ABC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Detroit Lions (2025-10-20): 18,800,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2025-10-24, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/10/mnf-week-7-high-doubleheader-nfl-ratings-recap/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nfl-buccaneers-lions-2025-10-20, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Big Data + Panel, since Sept 2025