NEW YORK (AP) — Besides consuming turkey and visiting with household, sports activities on tv occupied the time of many Americans over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Some marquee contests led to some TV milestones, together with the most-watched common season professional soccer sport ever and most-seen soccer sport on American tv, the Nielsen firm mentioned.

The Dallas Cowboys’ defeat of the New York Giants proven on Fox Thanksgiving Day was seen by an estimated 42 million folks, Nielsen mentioned. Two groups with nationwide followings, each having sturdy years, enjoying on a day the place there’s a captive viewers, led to the document. The earlier greatest was a December 1990 sport between the Giants and San Francisco.

Fox’s telecast of the World Cup match between the U.S. and England reached 15.38 million folks on Friday. That alone beat the earlier U.S. record-holder, the 1994 World Cup championship, and didn’t even rely the viewers on Telemundo, which lifted the whole U.S. viewers to just about 20 million.

The Michigan-Ohio State faculty soccer sport on Saturday — two conventional rivals each undefeated going into the matchup, enjoying a sport with large scoring performs — was seen by 17 million folks. That was the most important viewers for an everyday season faculty soccer sport since 2011, and the most important ever for Fox, Nielsen mentioned.

They might not have been record-setters, however CBS and NBC each had sturdy numbers for his or her Thanksgiving video games. The 31.6 million who watched Buffalo and Detroit was the most well-liked sport on CBS up to now this season, Nielsen mentioned.

Meanwhile, NBC’s protection of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was seen by 25.8 million folks, the most well-liked leisure program of the yr.

NBC was the week’s hottest community, averaging 8.2 million viewers in prime time. CBS had 4.1 million, Fox had 3.41 million, ABC had 3.35 million, Univision had 1.1 million, Ion had 870,000 and Telemundo had 820,000.

ESPN led the cable networks with a 2.99 million common in prime time. Hallmark had 1.71 million, Fox News Channel had 1.64 million, Paramount had 1.24 million and MSNBC had 772,000.

ABC’s “World News Tonight” gained the night information rankings race with a median of 8.9 million viewers. NBC’s “Nightly News” had 7.3 million and the “CBS Evening News” had 5.3 million.

For the week of Nov. 14-20, the 20 most-watched prime-time applications, their networks and viewerships:

1. NFL Football: New England at Minnesota, NBC, 24.78 million.

2. “NFL Postgame” (Thursday), Fox, 21.66 million.

3. NFL Football: Green Bay at Philadelphia, NBC, 19.57 million.

4. “NFL Pregame” (Thursday), NBC, 18.13 million.

5. “NFL Pregame” (Sunday), NBC, 14.85 million.

6. NFL Football: San Francisco at Arizona, ESPN, 11.17 million.

7. “Football Night in America, Part 3,” NBC, 10.77 million.

8. “The OT,” Fox, 9.11 million.

9. “60 Minutes,” CBS, 9.03 million.

10. “Yellowstone,” Paramount, 8.36 million.

11. “The Masked Singer,” Fox, 7.86 million.

12. “FBI,” CBS, 7.54 million.

13. “NCIS,” CBS, 6.85 million.

14. College Football: Florida at Florida St., ABC, 6.71 million.

15. College Football: Notre Dame at USC, ABC, 6.68 million.

16. “The Equalizer,” CBS, 6.56 million.

17. “The Voice” (Tuesday), NBC, 6.19 million.

18. “The Voice” (Monday), NBC, 5.98 million.

19. “Football Night in America, Part 2,” NBC, 5.97 million.

20. “NFL Pregame” (Monday), ESPN, 5.87 million.