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Before joining our Access Vikings team, Dan Wiederer covered Atlantic Coast Conference basketball for the Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer and was named North Carolina's top sports columnist in 2010. His previous reporting experience includes covering the Chicago Bears. Follow him on Twitter @StribDW.
Mark Craig has covered football and the NFL the past 20 years, including the Browns from 1991-95 and the Vikings and the NFL since 2003. Since 2008, Craig has served as one of the 44 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors. He can be followed on Twitter at @markcraignfl.
Favre vs. Packers draws big ratings
Posted by: under Vikings, Football on TV, Packers, Brett Favre Updated: November 2, 2009 - 3:33 PM
Brett Favre not only continues to deliver victories to the Vikings, he also continues to help the NFL produce some impressive ratings.
The latest example came Sunday as Favre's return to Lambeau Field to play the Green Bay Packers fired a 47.0 rating and 76 share in the Twin Cities on Fox affiliate KMSP (Ch. 9). That makes it the highest-rated regular-season game on Fox in this market since the network began airing the NFL in 1994.
Milwaukee, which is the home market for the Packers when it comes to television, had the second-highest rating in the country with a 45.7 and 70 share. But that didn't even crack the top five for Fox's NFL telecasts in that city.
The Vikings-Packers game was the anchor game of Fox's NFL doubleheader -- the Carolina-Arizona went to 6 percent of the country and the Vikings-Packers went to 91 percent -- and had an 18.3 rating and 34 share. That's Fox's best national game rating since Week 13 of the 2006 season and also the best overnight rating for a regular-season game since the New England-Indianapolis matchup in 2007.
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