Ratings Reference
Telecasts · NFL

NFL Chargers–Chiefs

2025-09-05 · NFL · YouTube
18,500,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
revised · figures last changed 2025-09-12

Published figures

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Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast · revised
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
YouTube announced Friday that the initial viewership figure reported for last week’s Chargers-Chiefs NFL International Series game from Brazil — 16.2 million viewers in the United States — was undercounted due to an internal technical issue and the game actually averaged a U.S. audience of 18.5 million. Sports Media Watch, verbatim
18,500,000
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · superseded
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
Friday’s Chiefs-Chargers NFL International Series game from Brazil averaged a Nielsen-measured audience of 16.2 million viewers on YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing company said Monday . Sports Media Watch, verbatim
16,200,000
blend1 figure
via pressaverage audience
combined / full telecast · final
press-attributed · Awful Announcing
The Chiefs-Chargers game drew 17.3 million viewers Awful Announcing, verbatim
17,300,000
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initial figure · superseded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