New York Jets at Detroit Lions

Name: New York Jets at Detroit Lions
Creator: RatingsReference
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2018-09-10 · NFL · ESPN

10,300,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-09-12

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Earlier in the night, Jets-Lions had a 6.2 and 10.3 million — down 9% in both measures from last year (Saints-Vikings: 6.8, 11.4M) and down 19% and 20% respectively from 2016 (Pittsburgh-Washington: 7.7, 13.0M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

10,300,000

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

On the record

NetworksESPN

AwayNew York Jets

HomeDetroit Lions

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

New Orleans Saints at Minnesota Vikings

2017-09-11 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

11,392,000

Los Angeles Chargers at Denver Broncos

2017-09-11 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

9,938,000

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

Cite this figure

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New York Jets at Detroit Lions (2018-09-10): 10,300,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-09-12, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/09/monday-night-football-ratings-week-one-espn/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nfl-jets-lions-2018-09-10, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950