Thanksgiving is time for family to gather around the table and enjoy a meal together, but there’s also an endless amount of television to watch.
Between the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the National Dog Show and multiple football games, there’s reason to have the TV on all day.
For some families, having a TV thanksgiving is tradition, but for others it’s considered the height of rudeness.
The National Football League commissioned a custom survey from Nielsen, a leading media measurement and analytics company.
According to the custom study, the average audience across all three Thanksgiving Day games was 45.4 million – a 33% increase from the 34.1 million viewers reported to have watched the games, the largest Thanksgiving Day average audience on record. Additionally, the Green Bay Packers versus Detroit Lions and Washington Commanders versus Dallas Cowboys games each averaged approximately 50 million viewers.