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Telecasts · NFL

NFL Chargers–Chiefs

Nielsen average audience: 18,500,000 viewers (revised), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2025-09-05 Friday
Networks
YouTube
Teams
Chargers · Chiefs
18,500,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 3 sources · revised
figures last changed 2025-09-12

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast · revised
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
18,500,000
Source quote not verbatim-confirmed against a fetched copy
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · superseded
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
16,200,000
Source quote not verbatim-confirmed against a fetched copy
blend1 figure
via pressaverage audience
combined / full telecast · final
press-attributed · Awful Announcing
17,300,000
The Chiefs-Chargers game drew 17.3 million viewers Awful Announcing, verbatim
3 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
combined counts all networks and streams · press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Revision ledger

Nielsen full telecast average audience · newest first
2025-09-12
+2,300,000 vs initial figure

YouTube said the initial 16.2 million figure was undercounted due to an internal technical issue and revised the US average to 18.5 million.

paraphrased from Sports Media Watch's statement
Sports Media Watch
2025-09-08
16,200,000
initial figure · superseded
Sports Media Watch

Self-report (not a peer currency)

average audience
full telecast / global · revised · Sports Media Watch
19,200,000

NFL 2025 season

Week 1 of 18 · 43rd of 82 published NFL figures in the 2025 season
Site-computed over the season's chart-eligible Nielsen average figures · computed 2026-10-15 23:55 UTC
NFL 2025 season ledger

Prior-season comparable

25,900,000
Green Bay Packers at Philadelphia Eagles
2024-09-06 · Peacock · Nielsen, revised · Sports Media Watch
−28.6% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, the only such window within a week of 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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