Saints-Chiefs draws 15.9 million for non-ABC Monday night game | NBC Sports
On a Monday night that didn’t include an ABC simulcast, a so-so game between the Saints and Chiefs drew an audience of 15.9 million for the ESPN/ESPN2 simulcast. That’s an impressive number for ESPN/ESPN2 only.
Of that number, 1.4 million watched the ManningCast. That’s 8.8 percent of the total audience.
That’s a good sign for the alternate broadcast, which had numbers so low in Week 1 (872,000) that the ESPN/ABC press release didn’t even mention them.
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The Chiefs played their first full game without Rashee Rice, and somehow, their offense didn’t miss a beat.