Eagles/Cowboys delivers for NBC

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COWBOYS-EAGLES DELIVERS SECOND BEST SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL”OVERNIGHT RATING THIS YEAR

14.3 Rating Trails Only Giants-Cowboys, Which Was Best Overnight For Primetime NFL Game in 11 Years

SNF Powers NBC to Sunday Night Win and is Top Rated Program of the Night Again

NEW YORK - Nov. 9, 2009 - Last night's Cowboys-Eagles game on NBC Sports had the second best overnight rating for a "Sunday Night Football" game this season. The Cowboys 20-16 victory earned a 14.3 overnight rating and 23 share to power NBC to a Sunday Night victory as SNF again was the top rated program of Sunday night as it has been for seven of eight Sundays.

SECOND BEST SNF OVERNIGHT RATING THIS YEAR: Last night's game (8:30-11:45 p.m. ET) was the second highest overnight rating of the season for "Sunday Night Football" trailing only the Week 2 Giants 33-31 victory over the Cowboys in the much-hyped debut of the new Cowboys stadium. That game drew an overnight rating of a 16.5/27 and had the highest overnight rating for an NFL primetime regular-season game in 11 years.

The 14.3/23 overnight rating is up 20 percent over the Week 9 game last season (Patriots-Colts, 11.9/18) and up 24 percent over the Week 9 game in 2007 which also featured the Cowboys at the Eagles (11.5/18).

DOMINATED PRIMETIME: "Sunday Night Football" is No. 1 program of the night in the metered markets (excludes overruns of NFL day games) on a night that included ABC's Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters, CBS's 60 Minutes and Amazing Race and Fox's Cleveland Show and Family Guy.

· Head-to-head from 9-10 p.m., the Cowboys-Eagles game out-rated Desperate Housewives in the metered markets by a margin of 80% (14.8 vs. 8.2 in that hour). "Sunday Night Football" has out-rated Desperate Housewives each week that the two have gone head-to-head this season.

· NBC is No. 1 for the night in metered-market households, with the network's highest Sunday average (11.2/18) since the September 20 Giants-Cowboys game.

TOP 10 "SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL" OVERNIGHT RATING/SHARE EVER:
1. 9/20/09, Giants-Cowboys, 16.5/27 (Dallas Cowboys stadium debut)
2. 11/25/07, Eagles-Patriots, 15.6/24
3. 12/14/08, Giants-Cowboys, 15.4/24
4. 11/5/06, Colts-Patriots, 15.1/22
5. 9/10/06, Colts-Giants, 14.7/23 ("Manning Bowl")
6. 9/21/08, Cowboys-Packers, 14.4/22
7. 11/8/09, Cowboys-Eagles, 14.3/23 (Last Night's Game)
T8. 9/9/07, Giants-Cowboys, 13.6/22
T8. 11/12/06, Bears-Giants, 13.6/20
10. 11/16/08, Cowboys-Redskins, 13.5/20

TOP 10 METERED MARKETS FOR GIANTS-COWBOYS:
1. Dallas, 37.1/56
2. Philadelphia, 30.9/45
3. San Antonio, 29.8/41
4. Austin, 23.3/37
5. Albuquerque, 22.9/32
6. Las Vegas, 21.8/31
7. Richmond, 19.5/30
8. New Orleans, 19.3/27
9. Washington D.C., 17.6/29
10. San Diego, 17.5/27

**Viewership numbers will be available when national ratings are released
tomorrow**