NFL Pre-Season Gets Kick With Vick

  • August 23, 2009
Although he didn't play, the return of Michael Vick to the NFL ranks helped Fox score its best results for a pre-season game in two years last Thursday night.

Fox earned a Nielsen 2.4 rating/8 share among 18-49 viewers for the Philadelphia Eagles-Indianapolis Colts game, easily beating all other networks for the night. It was Fox's highest-rated NFL pre-season game since Aug. 9, 2007. CBS was second with a 1.8/6, followed by NBC at a 1.1/4, ABC with a 0.9/3, CW at 0.7/2, and MyNetwork TV with a 0.2/1. --Wayne Friedman

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