Monday's, ESPN’s Monday Night Football game – the Tennessee Titans’ 20-17 victory over the Houston Texans – earned an 8.9 rating, representing an average of 8,791,000 households (12,100,000 viewers – P2+). As it has each week this season, MNF led all the night’s programs (broadcast or cable) in all key male demos and people 18-34.

For 2009, MNF telecasts represent cable’s 11 most-viewed telecasts in terms of both household impressions and total viewers year to date. Through 11 weeks (12 games) of the NFL season, ESPN’s MNF is averaging a 10.2 rating and 10,097,000 households (14,018,000 P2+), up 12 percent, 14 percent and 14 percent, respectively, from last season.

ESPN.COM

ESPN.com had 74.1 million page views to NFL content accessed via computers and mobile devices for Monday thru Tuesday at noon -- up 24 percent from the comparable time period last year. Specifically, page views for the NFL section on computers and mobile were up 9 percent from last year. Additionally, ESPN.com streamed 1.5 million NFL related videos.

Source: ESPN

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