Ratings Reference

Detroit Lions at New Orleans Saints

Nielsen average audience: 12,200,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2016-12-04 Sunday
Networks
FOX
12,200,000
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 (“(37%)”) · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
12,200,000
12.2M Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season windows

2015-12-06 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
28,600,000
2015-12-06 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
15,400,000
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.