THE NFL ON CBS's broadcast of the AFC Wild Card game featuring the Baltimore Ravens defeating the New England Patriots on Sunday, Jan. 1 (1:00-4:15 PM, ET) scored an average overnight household rating/share of 19.4/38, up +14% from an overnight rating/share of 17.0/35 for last year's AFC Wild Card game on CBS between Baltimore and Miami (1:00-4:00 PM, ET).

The Baltimore-New England game rating/share peaked with a 22.6/42 (3:30-4:00 PM, ET). 

The game is CBS's highest-rated AFC Wild Card game in the metered markets since 2006 when Pittsburgh at Cincinnati earned a rating/share of 19.9/34 (4:30-7:45 PM, ET)).

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