Ratings Reference

Pittsburgh Steelers at Detroit Lions

Nielsen average audience: 28,550,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2025-12-21 Sunday
Networks
CBS
28,550,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2025-12-24

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast / split window (“mostly”) · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
28,550,000
Sunday's NFL national window (mostly Steelers-Lions) averaged a 13.0 rating and 28.55 million viewers Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season comparable

9,600,000
2024-12-22 · CBS · NFL Sunday Ticket · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
+197.4% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on CBS, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.