Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions

Name: Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions
Creator: RatingsReference
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2025-01-05 · NFL · NBC · Peacock

25,770,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2025-01-07

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

The Vikings-Lions NFL regular season finale averaged a 12.6 rating and 25.77 million viewers on NBC's Sunday Night Football — up 11% in ratings and 22% in viewership from Bills-Dolphins last year (11.3, 21.18M) and the league's most-watched standalone season finale since Eagles-Cowboys in December 2013 (27.40M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

25,770,000

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

On the record

NetworksNBC · Peacock

AwayLions

HomeVikings

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings

2023-12-31 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

18,280,000

Los Angeles Rams at Detroit Lions

2024-01-14 · NBC · Nielsen, final · Wikipedia

36,000,000

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

Cite this figure

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Minnesota Vikings at Detroit Lions (2025-01-05): 25,770,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2025-01-07, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/01/nfl-week-18-ratings-lions-vikings-nbc-viewership-cbs-fox-doubleheader/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nfl-lions-vikings-2025-01-05, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020