Monday Night Football's ratings up for Detroit Lions' win vs. New York Giants

Kevin Spain | USA TODAY

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ESPN's Monday Night Football broadcast of the Detroit Lions' 24-10 win over the New York Giants was the top-rated show Monday, and beat the numbers for the same week's broadcast from last year.

The game had a total live audience of 12,741,000 average viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes. Total live audience is live TV and streaming.

The game averaged a 7.4 rating and 12,287,000 viewers, beating last year's Week 2 game between the Philadelphia Eagles vs. the Chicago Bears. The most viewers of the night came between 9:15-9:30 p.m. when it got 14,465,000 viewers for an 8.6 rating.

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Detroit's audience was the biggest of the two cities, getting a combined 28.7 rating on ESPN and the local ABC station. In New York, it got a 14.8 ESPN/ABC combo rating.

Outside of Detroit and New York, the top markets were: New Orleans (13.8), Norfolk (12.9), Philadelphia (12.5), Richmond-Petersburg (12.1), Washington, DC (11.0), Buffalo (10.7), Atlanta (10.4), Las Vegas (10.3), Baltimore (10.2) and Denver (10.1).

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