NFL ON CBS Scores Highest-Rated Regular-Season Game Since 2011

CBS Sports' coverage of THE NFL ON CBS on Sunday, Dec. 16, highlighted by the Pittsburgh-Dallas overtime thriller (and Kansas City-Oakland), earned the weekend's highest overnight household rating/share of any network in the metered markets with a 17.2/30, compared to last year's 19.5/36 (New England-Denver), which was the second-highest rated regular-season game since the Network re-acquired the NFL in 1998.

The game rating peaked at 20.8/38 from 7:30-8:00 PM, ET.

CBS's early regional coverage (Denver-Baltimore; Indianapolis-Houston; Jacksonville-Miami) scored a 10.8/22, up 50% from last year's 7.2/15 (Cincinnati-St. Louis; Miami-Buffalo; Tennessee-Indianapolis).

Games for the rest of 2012 include:

WEEK 16 - SUNDAY, DEC. 23

Tennessee @ Green Bay 1:00

Oakland @ Carolina 1:00

Buffalo @ Miami 1:00

Cincinnati @ Pittsburgh 1:00

New England @ Jacksonville 1:00

Indianapolis @ Kansas City 1:00

Cleveland @ Denver 4:05

WEEK 17 - SUNDAY, DEC. 30 - CBS DBHDR

N.Y. Jets @ Buffalo 1:00

Miami @ New England 1:00

Baltimore @ Cincinnati 1:00

Cleveland @ Pittsburgh 1:00

Houston @ Indianapolis 1:00

Jacksonville @ Tennessee 1:00

Kansas City @ Denver 4:25

Oakland @ San Diego 4:25

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