NFL TV viewing keeps rising. The NFC Championship game this past weekend on Fox featuring the San Francisco 49ers and the Detroit Lions was up 20% compared to last year’s NFL game — to 56.7 million Nielsen-measured viewers. Viewing was also 7% higher vs. the AFC Championship a year ago, which ran in the same late-afternoon Sunday time period (with 53.1 million viewers) a year ago. Fox says this is the best NFC Championship game result in 12 years — and the fourth most-watched non-Super Bowl telecast event.
