ESPN’s MNF Attracted More than 14.5M Viewers

ESPN’s Monday Night Football featuring Los Angeles Chargers at New York Jets (November 6, 8:15 p.m. ET) delivered a MNF’s Week 9 multi-year viewership high, while driving nearly a 40% audience increase year-over-year.

The Chargers-Jets audience of 14,532,000 viewers (ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes, NFL+) is up 38% year-over-year (Ravens-Saints) and MNF’s highest Week 9 game since 2019. Monday Night Football with Peyton and Eli (ESPN2) delivered an audience of 1,028,000 viewers, the alternate telecasts 24th consecutive episode with more than a one million viewers.

Across all of television, Monday Night Football was the most-watched telecast of the night overall and across all key demos.

Monday Night Football Up 14% Year-Over-Year

Season-to-date, Monday Night Football is averaging 15.4 million, up 14% inclusive of all linear games (11 games vs. 10 games), despite the Week 3 presentation of two games vs. last season’s singular game in the same week. Excluding this year’s Week 3, Monday Night Football would be up 21% year-over-year, averaging 16.3 million viewers.

In Week 3 this season, Monday Night Football had two games, with staggered kick off times on ABC and ESPN (7:15 p.m. and 8:15 p.m.). In 2022 Week 3, Monday Night Football had Cowboys-Giants on ABC and ESPN. In both seasons’ Week 2, Monday Night Football had two games with staggered start times.