NHL/hockey TV ratings 2024-25

[S E P H]

Report: More people are watching the WNBA than the NHL​

MSN

"Yeesh… losing viewers to playoff baseball is one thing, but losing viewers to the WNBA is a new one for the NHL."

NHL just had a successful season with crazy good SCF ratings. This is overblown, baseball gets horrible ratings as its season starts when the NHL playoffs are in full swing.

Additionally, the WNBA and NHL have different clientele fanbases. There's a good chance most of the WNBA fans will not watch the NHL at all.

 

[ORRFForever]

NHL just had a successful season with crazy good SCF ratings. This is overblown, baseball gets horrible ratings as its season starts when the NHL playoffs are in full swing.

Additionally, the WNBA and NHL have different clientele fanbases. There's a good chance most of the WNBA fans will not watch the NHL at all.

Talk to the author.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I believe it is only in Canada.

The ratings still count, it’s not a US ratings thread, also in the states ESPN+ got the feed according to posters in prime thread.

I’m curious how they did, as picture was 4K quality.

nhl opening gets beat out by the nhl.

damn that must be hard

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

NHL just had a successful season with crazy good SCF ratings. This is overblown, baseball gets horrible ratings as its season starts when the NHL playoffs are in full swing.

Additionally, the WNBA and NHL have different clientele fanbases. There's a good chance most of the WNBA fans will not watch the NHL at all.

Yeah the WNBA ratings are different than other leagues ratings

 

[gattaca]

Thirsty Bettman showed up in Toronto for the Amazon Prime announcement and yesterday in Montreal for the first Amazon Prime broadcasted game.

https://x.com/i/web/status/1845966985797960089

 

[Reaser]

The ratings still count, it’s not a US ratings thread, also in the states ESPN+ got the feed according to posters in prime thread.

Yes, in the U.S. the Prime feed is available on ESPN+ and also on Center Ice.

 

[Anisimovs AK]

When the Canadian GP set the record as the most-viewed F1 race in Canada in June it had an average audience of 1.4 million across all networks and language broadcasts. Or put another way, the same AMA as the NHL Skills Competition had on SN last season in Canada ...

Majority of the 2024 NBA Finals games had an average minute audience of 300k or less in Canada. You'll find numerous regional NHL broadcasts that easily beat that number every season.

Like the 2 Montreal games listed earlier

 

[awfulwaffle]

NHL just had a successful season with crazy good SCF ratings. This is overblown, baseball gets horrible ratings as its season starts when the NHL playoffs are in full swing.

Additionally, the WNBA and NHL have different clientele fanbases. There's a good chance most of the WNBA fans will not watch the NHL at all.

Does it really matter? It's simply numbers. Opening night this year was lower than last year, fact. WNBA got more viewers than NHL, fact. You can try to spin it however you want, that's just the facts.

 

[Chileiceman]

A regular season NHL game getting beat by a winner take-all WNBA playoff game isn't news. It speaks to the WNBA's surge (good for them) more than anything to do with the NHL IMO.

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on ESPN avg viewership last night-

Wild-Blues: 417k

Waiting on Flyers-Oilers

 

[joelef]

A regular season NHL game getting beat by a winner take-all WNBA playoff game isn't news. It speaks to the WNBA's surge (good for them) more than anything to do with the NHL IMO.

Except it wouldn’t have been beaten out by any other “ major” sport league

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on ESPN avg viewership last night-

Wild-Blues: 417k

Waiting on Flyers-Oilers

Flyers-Oilers: 333k

 

[Reaser]

-CANADA-

-HNIC Saturday-

7pmET window: 1.884M
10pmET window: 1.094M

-Prime Monday Night Hockey-
Penguins-Canadiens
Combined: 872k
-Prime: 220k
--RDS: 652k

 

[varsaku]

-CANADA-

-HNIC Saturday-

7pmET window: 1.884M
10pmET window: 1.094M

-Prime Monday Night Hockey-
Penguins-Canadiens
Combined: 872k
-Prime: 220k
--RDS: 652k

I am surprised Prime is that low considering how most people have Prime at this point. Having Thursday Night Football on Prime in the US has been amazing and so easy to tune into.

 

[Reaser]

I am surprised Prime is that low considering how most people have Prime at this point. Having Thursday Night Football on Prime in the US has been amazing and so easy to tune into.

TNF on Prime was down from TNF on broadcast, too.

So not really surprising, especially when factoring in it was a Habs game so the English-language (in this case Prime) broadcast would be down, anyway.

Hopefully I get the # for the next Prime MNH because it'll be a better data point to go off of.

The Pens-Habs game was on a holiday, with other NHL games on during the day & night, and was the Habs English-lang stream -- so it was the secondary viewing option for a lot of would-be viewers as obviously they had the option to watch on RDS. Which they did with a pretty strong French-lang #.

Those factors don't apply this upcoming Monday where Bolts-Leafs is the only game of the night with Prime being the primary viewing option for the first time.

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on TNT avg viewership last night-

Sabres-Penguins: 512k
-TNT: 422k
--truTV: 90k

Waiting on Bruins-Avalanche..

 

[Reaser]

-NHL on TNT avg viewership last night-

Sabres-Penguins: 512k
-TNT: 422k
--truTV: 90k

Waiting on Bruins-Avalanche..

Bruins-Avalanche: 340k on TNT/truTV combined (don't have the breakdown for each.)

 

[Green Blank Stare]

The season is starting too early and it will somehow last longer than the NBA.

I'm more casual than most on this site but I try to catch most Canucks games at least but I've barely watched since the MLB playoffs are in full swing.

 

[Jets4Life]

And...Mets, Yankees, maybe Dodgers, Detroit or Cleveland, traditional and appealing markets, in the baseball league championships won't help upcoming October NHL ratings, unlike the NBA which always starts later in the baseball playoffs and avoids that tv competition.

No matter what market does well, baseball will continue to decline. It's been that way for the past 40 years. Any good ratings that the MLB gets, is usually temporary.

 

[joelef]

No matter what market does well, baseball will continue to decline. It's been that way for the past 40 years. Any good ratings that the MLB gets, is usually temporary.

Baseball ratings are still higher then the nhl

 

[Anisimovs AK]

I am surprised Prime is that low considering how most people have Prime at this point. Having Thursday Night Football on Prime in the US has been amazing and so easy to tune into.

Most people have prime but most prime users do not use it to stream video. Most of those 150 million users use it for shopping. Also, TNF on Prime, while still getting good ratings for streaming only, viewership is still less than it was when it was on CBS/Fox (I remember they had a few years of NFL Network/OTA simulcast)



220k in a country of 38 million people for one hockey game is pretty strong, Id say

 

[Anisimovs AK]

No matter what market does well, baseball will continue to decline. It's been that way for the past 40 years. Any good ratings that the MLB gets, is usually temporary.

After slow start opposite MNF, ALCS rebounds in Game 2

After a slow start for the opener opposite Monday Night Football, ratings for the Yankees-Guardians ALCS rebounded in Game 2.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

How about we use verifiable facts instead of feelings. The whole "baseball is dying" thing was moreso about how it used to be just as if not more popular than football, but is now a solid 3rd behind the NFL and NBA. There is still a massive gap from the MLB to anything else though

 

[Chileiceman]

Rogers' treatment of their Monday night national window is a microcosm of how this NHL right deal has gone for them. They initially create Hometown Hockey airing on Sundays on OTA City TV with all kinds of hoopla with Ron McLean travelling to a different site every week with concerts, big outdoor crowds etc. Then it got taken off City TV and put on Sportsnet. Then it got moved to Mondays, lasted for a year, got cancelled and replaced with just a plain jane Monday Night national game, which lasted for two seasons and then Rogers was just like screw it and sold that National window away to Amazon.

 

[Anisimovs AK]

A regular season NHL game getting beat by a winner take-all WNBA playoff game isn't news. It speaks to the WNBA's surge (good for them) more than anything to do with the NHL IMO.

Sure. The massive drop off from the NHL opening night games from last year is the concern though, especially if our stance is that WNBA fans are a much different demographic then NHL fans.

If there isnt that much crossover, then where did the fans go?

 

[LadyStanley]

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