Oakland Raiders at Houston Texans

Name: Oakland Raiders at Houston Texans
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2019-10-27 · NFL · CBS

21,030,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2019-10-30

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Sunday's NFL national window (Browns-Patriots or Raiders-Texans) averaged a 12.0 rating and 21.03 million viewers on CBS, marking the lowest rated Week 8 national window since 2002 (mostly Broncos-Patriots: 11.9) and the least-watched since 2014 (mostly Colts-Steelers: 20.75M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

21,030,000

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

On the record

NetworksCBS

AwayOakland Raiders

HomeHouston Texans

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

Dallas Cowboys at Washington Redskins

2018-10-21 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

20,880,000

Tennessee Titans at Los Angeles Chargers

2018-10-21 · CBS · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

5,800,000

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

Cite this figure

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Oakland Raiders at Houston Texans (2019-10-27): 21,030,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2019-10-30, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/10/nfl-ratings-cbs-national-window-week-8-low/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nfl-raiders-texans-2019-10-27, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950