Viewership numbers for Rogers-owned Sportsnet, which shows the NFL Thursday night games, are not included in the set Postmedia received. Late Sunday afternoons in further perspectiveLast weekend’s Sunday late-afternoon NFL game, Dallas-Pittsburgh on CTV, outdrew even the CFL Eastern semifinal game — 981,000 to 903,000. Previously this season, Sunday NFL games regularly thumped late-season Sunday CFL games according to weekly Numeris numbers posted at Yahoo! Election blames for sinking NFL ratings in U.S. NFL TV ratings south of the border have plummeted this year. Monday Night Football hasn’t been the NFL ratings darling in the U.S. since Sunday Night Football was added in 2006.

Source: National Post November 18, 2016 21:22 UTC