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NFL wild-card games deliver big weekend numbers

The Columbian
Published: January 5, 2014, 4:00pm

NEW YORK (AP) — The New Orleans Saints’ 26-24 win against the Philadelphia Eagles was the most-watched Saturday wild-card game on NBC with 34.4 million viewers. The Indianapolis Colts’ 45-44 win over the Kansas City Chiefs had 27.6 million viewers.

NBC said Monday the average of 30.8 million viewers for the two games was an increase of 14 percent from last year’s weekend.

On CBS, the San Diego-Cincinnati game was seen by 30.9 million, the highest viewership in 19 years for an early AFC wild-card game.

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