NHL/hockey TV ratings 2024-25

[Kirk Van Houten]

1.6M Most-viewed NHL game of the season in the U.S.

Great news

 

[DaBadGuy7]

You'd think this would be a discussion point with their whole 4 Nations experiment of lengthening TV timeouts (Commercial breaks) but shortening intermissions.

More likely to hold an audience over a longer commercial than over a 16 minute intermission.

I'd love to see this chart for the championship game.

@Fenway posted a thread on the main board on how even back in the 1950s TV execs didn’t like hockey as a TV sport because of the two intermissions. He even posted research that two intermissions cuts down the viewing audience more than halftime in football and basketball. I do think in the next 15-20 years if they can perfect synthetic ice on NHL arenas that going to 3 periods to 2 halves or 4 quarters will be a thing. But in the meantime longer breaks and shorter intermission may hold audiences in the short term.

 

[Golden_Jet]

@Fenway posted a thread on the main board on how even back in the 1950s TV execs didn’t like hockey as a TV sport because of the two intermissions. He even posted research that two intermissions cuts down the viewing audience more than halftime in football and basketball. I do think in the next 15-20 years if they can perfect synthetic ice on NHL arenas that going to 3 periods to 2 halves or 4 quarters will be a thing. But in the meantime longer breaks and shorter intermission may hold audiences in the short term.

Shortening intermissions is a bad idea, they lengthened them in the past, because there was still wet ice to start the periods.

 

[Anisimovs AK]

-NHL on ABC avg viewership Saturday-

Bruins-Penguins: 1.1M

Up 30 percent vs last year.


NHL on ABC is up 22 percent vs last year

NHL Stadium Series delivers top non-Four Nations audience of season

Despite airing on ESPN instead of ABC, the NHL Stadium Series delivered the top audience of the season outside of the Four Nations Face-Off.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Shortening intermissions is a bad idea, they lengthened them in the past, because there was still wet ice to start the periods.

It's not a bad idea if you cut out some of the bullshit before the actual resurfacing.

Only about half of the intermission is resurfacing. The other half is random "Games" used as a mask for a sponsorship plug.

 

[GKJ]

Great numbers for the stadium series considering it was a full nhl schedule and one of the teams was the Blue Jackets.

 

[Reaser]

1.6M Most-viewed NHL game of the season in the U.S.

1.594M for the full #