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Telecasts · NFL

Detroit Lions at Dallas Cowboys

Nielsen average audience: 18,010,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2018-09-30 Sunday
Networks
FOX
Away
Cowboys
Home
Lions
18,010,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-27

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / split window (“(33%)”) · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
18,010,000
18.01M Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season windows

Los Angeles Rams at Dallas Cowboys
2017-10-01 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
20,056,000
New Orleans Saints at Miami Dolphins
2017-10-01 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
6,403,000
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 FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

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