Last weekend's four NFL divisional round playoff games averaged 40 million viewers on television and digital platforms, the highest on record dating to 1988.
The viewer average is a 7% increase over last year and a 5% jump from two years ago. Sunday night's game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills on CBS averaged a divisional round record 50.39 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
The previous mark was 48.52 million for the Jan. 15, 2017, game between the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers on Fox. Chiefs-Bills was the most-watched program on any network since last year's Super Bowl.
At one point during the fourth quarter, the game was averaging 56.25 million. The Houston Texans-Baltimore Ravens game, which kicked off the weekend Saturday afternoon, drew 31.77 million on ESPN, ABC, ESPN+, making it the most-watched ESPN game since it started doing games in 1987.