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Chargers' win a jolt for NBC Sports


January 04, 2009 The network said Sunday that Saturday's San Diego Chargers-Indianapolis Colts wild-card playoff game, which the Chargers won in overtime, earned the best primetime ratings for a wild-card game to date and the best primetime Saturday ratings for a wild-card game since 1999. The Chargers-Colts game averaged an 18.3 overnight household rating/30 share from 8:15-11:45 p.m. EST on Saturday, Nielsen said Sunday, forging a ratings tie with a January 2003 Atlanta Falcons-Green Bay Packers wild-card game. On New Year's Day, NBC's "NHL Winter Classic," an outdoor game at Chicago's Wrigley Field, was up in the ratings from last year.

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