TV Ratings Came In For The Conference Championship Games & They Were Huge

January 26, 2021, 12:42pm EST (Updated: December 23, 2022, 6:33pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

The National Football League got a huge boost in ratings this past weekend when the Conference Championship games kicked off.

After a year in which ratings trended mostly downward, the NFL as well as Fox got a huge boost in confidence when the numbers came in:

As Tom Brady and the @Buccaneers officially punched their ticket to a hometown Super Bowl, the #NFCChampionshipGame on FOX delivered record ratings. pic.twitter.com/6GKD6mZNy9
— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) January 25, 2021

The @NFLonFOX concludes its 2020-21 season coverage on top!

✔️ Best #NFCChampionship since 2017
✔️ Peak viewership of 53 million pic.twitter.com/Ycjs3aR2O1
— FOX Sports PR (@FOXSportsPR) January 26, 2021

The Bucs and Packers generated a rating of 26.5. Milwaukee households drew a 48.1 while Tampa Bay drew a 39.9, making it the most-watched telecast of any kind since the 49ers-Chiefs Super Bowl last season.

According to John Ourand of Sports Business Journal, the AFC Championship drew an 85 share in the Kansas City area:

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Kansas City's local TV rating for yesterday's Bills-Chiefs game was a 61.9. Its share was an 85 share. That means that 85% of all TVs in use with the KC DMA were tuned into the Chiefs game. An astounding number.
— John Ourand (@Ourand_SBJ) January 25, 2021

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Per @paulsen_smw: Bills-Chiefs AFC Championship Game averaged 41.85 million viewers on CBS, up 2% in viewership from Titans-Chiefs (41.1 million) in the early window last year. Down from late window (42.8 million for GB-SF).
— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) January 26, 2021

You can only imagine what the numbers will be when the Kansas City Chiefs take on the Tampa Bay Bucs on February 7th in Tampa.