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Friday’s Fever-Sparks WNBA regular season game averaged a 0.46 rating and 724,000 viewers on ION, marking easily the largest WNBA audience on the Scripps-owned “netlet,” which began carrying games last season. By comparison, neither of ION’s two previous games this season hit the 300,000 mark. Mystics-Sun drew 290,000 and Storm-Lynx 266,000 the prior week. As for ION’s other sports property, the NWSL, the most-watched match so far this season delivered 219,000 on May 4 (North Carolina-NJ/NY).

The following night, Fever-Aces averaged a 0.16 and 333,000 on NBA TV — the most-watched WNBA game ever on the network, which has been Nielsen rated since 2010. While Clark’s impact on the ratings remains outsized, the WNBA scored another viewership high last weekend without her in the lineup. Sunday’s Liberty-Lynx game on CBS averaged a 0.43 and 704,000 — surpassing Mercury-Liberty last season (694K) as the most-watched WNBA game ever on the network.


The first three games of the Mavericks-Timberwolves NBA Western Conference Finals averaged a 3.4 rating and 6.85 million viewers on TNT and truTV, down 16% in ratings and 12% in viewership from the first three Lakers-Nuggets games on ESPN and ABC last year (4.1, 7.79M) and down 7% and 1% respectively from Mavericks-Warriors in 2022 (3.7, 6.91M). All three series were 3-0 after three games. Compared to last year’s TNT conference final — Heat-Celtics in the East, also a 3-0 margin — ratings are up a tick (from 3.3) and viewership 11% (from 6.19M).

The first three games of Celtics-Pacers averaged a 3.3 and 6.20 million, virtually even with last year’s Heat-Celtics matchup (3.3, 6.19M). Compared to last year’s Lakers-Nuggets series on ESPN/ABC, ratings and viewership declined 20% from a 4.1 and 7.79 million. Figures for Monday’s series-clinching Game 4 will be added when available.

Through Sunday, NBA playoff games were averaging a 2.2 rating and 4.00 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, TNT/truTV and NBA TV — down 10% and 11% respectively from last year (2.4, 4.47M), but flat and up 1% respectively from 2022 (2.2, 3.95M).
 
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Last NBA Playoffs update before the Finals: https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2024/06/mavs-wolves-wcf-ratings-down-nba-tnt-viewership/

Thursday’s Mavericks-Timberwolves NBA Western Conference Finals Game 5 averaged a combined 3.2 rating and 6.26 million viewers across TNT (6.15M) and truTV (114K), down 11% in ratings and 8% in viewership from the clinching Mavericks-Warriors in 2022, the most recent WCF Game 5 (3.7, 6.79M). Compared to last year’s lone conference final Game 5, Heat-Celtics in the East, ratings fell a tick (from 3.3) viewership inched up from 6.24 million.
The full five-game Mavericks-Timberwolves series averaged a 3.4 and 6.74 million viewers across TNT and truTV, down 18% in ratings and 15% from last year’s four-game Lakers-Nuggets series (4.2, 7.90M). Compared to Warriors-Mavericks two years ago, ratings dipped 5% and viewership was flat compared to a 3.6 and 6.74 million.

Compared to last year’s TNT conference final, the seven-game Heat-Celtics series, ratings and viewership fell 9% from a 3.8 and 7.42 million. Entering the NBA Finals, NBA playoff games are averaging a 2.2 and 4.10 million across ABC, ESPN, TNT/truTV and NBA TV — down 11% in ratings and 13% in viewership from last year (2.5, 4.71M) and down a tick and 2% respectively from 2022 (2.3, 4.19M).

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Boston common: ECF decent enough for ESPN/ABC

Considering the circumstances, ratings for the Celtics-Pacers NBA Eastern Conference Finals were not too bad.
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Monday’s Celtics-Pacers NBA Eastern Conference Final Game 4 averaged a 3.5 rating and series-high 6.63 million viewers across ESPN (6.43M) and ESPN2 (194K) — 6.67 million including ESPN Deportes (41K) — down a tick in ratings but up 1% in viewership from Celtics-Heat on TNT last year (3.6, 6.56M) and the most-watched ECF Game 4 since Celtics-Cavaliers in 2018 (7.94M). Compared to last year’s Nuggets-Lakers West Finals Game 4 on ESPN, which was also a series-clincher, viewership fell 19% from 8.21 million.

The full four-game Celtics-Pacers series averaged a 3.4 rating and 6.31 million viewers, down 11% in ratings and 15% in viewership from last year’s seven-game Heat-Celtics ECF on TNT (7.42M). Compared to the first four games of last year’s series, viewership increased a fraction of a percent from 6.28 million. Compared to last year’s four-game Nuggets-Lakers WCF on ESPN/ABC, viewership fell 20% from 7.90 million.

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Over 1.5 million for first matchup of Clark, Reese

The first professional matchup of Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese delivered another seven-figure audience, if not a record.
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Saturday’s Sky-Fever WNBA regular season game averaged a 0.9 rating and 1.53 million viewers on ESPN, marking the fourth-largest WNBA audience in the past 22 years. The top four have each involved Clark and the Fever, with her May 14 debut on ESPN2 placing first (Fever-Sun: 2.12M), May 18 against the Liberty on ABC second (1.71M) and May 20 against Connecticut on ESPN third (1.56M). After the WNBA went nearly sixteen years without a single seven-figure audience, five games this season have crossed that threshold. (A Sparks-Aces game that followed Fever-Liberty on May 18 averaged 1.34 million.) The following day, Clark played in yet another game that set a network record as Fever-Liberty averaged a 0.23 and 430,000 on NBA TV — the most-watched WNBA game ever on the network. NBA TV has set three WNBA viewership records this season, all for games involving Clark.
 
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Rough very rough for the NBA since it can easily be the new normal without Curry or LeBron in the Finals
 
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Friday’s Fever-Mystics WNBA regular season game, a matchup of teams that entered a combined 3-20, averaged a 0.6 rating and 1.02 million viewers on ION — the most-watched WNBA game on the Scripps-owned “netlet” that began carrying games last season. The previous high was 724,000 for another Clark game, a late night matchup with the Sparks. Regional action followed with a 0.35 and 528,000, the largest WNBA audience on ION that did not involve Clark.

Sunday’s Liberty-Sun game averaged a 0.6 rating and 962,000 viewers on ABC, marking the largest audience in 16 years for any WNBA game that did not either involve Clark’s Fever or follow one of their games. In other weekend action, NBA TV averaged a 0.12 and 175,000 for Dream-Sky.

Across all networks — ABC, CBS, ESPN, ESPN2, ION and NBA TV — WNBA games are averaging a 0.4 rating and 673,000 viewers this season. Those figures rise to a 0.6 and 927,000 with NBA TV excluded. WNBA games on Amazon Prime are not Nielsen rated. Clark’s games (nine total) are averaging a 0.6 and 1.09 million, with that rising to a 0.9 and 1.43 million with NBA TV excluded. Non-Clark games are averaging a 0.3 and 422,000, with that figure rising to a 0.4 and 591,000 with NBA TV excluded.

Clark’s Indiana Fever have set viewership records on ION, NBA TV and each of the primary ESPN networks — ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC — this season.
 
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I think it is a combination of them leaving their golden age, their major three-star players being Euros, and them being so political the last five years.


Being in the North American time zone probably helps a lot here.
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...Canada has always been in the North American time zone so not sure what you meant by that


Its the highest rated Canadian Grand Prix ever, not highest rated F1 race in general
 

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Here's some non-NHL Canadian numbers that were in my inbox from the past two weeks:

It always seems like people think of sports viewership the same in Canada as the U.S. with big #'s for multiple sports. Where if a regular season NHL game gets 2.0M in Canada that must mean other sports get over a million and it's just not like that, at all. Plus all the "basketball is passing hockey in popularity in Canada" posts on this site that don't make any sense, etc..

-CANADA avg viewership-

NBA Finals
Game 1: 300k
Game 2: 276k

F1 Canadian GP: 632k

CFL Week 1
MTL-WPG: 691k
HAM-CGY: 496k
SSK-EDM: 453k
BCL-TOR: 438k

WNBA
May 28 Caitlin Clark v. LA: "under 40k" was the note for it.

Blue Jays (this past Thurs-Sun)
THU: 347k
FRI: 542k
SAT: 551k
SUN: 604k
 
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Reaser said:
Here's some non-NHL Canadian numbers that were in my inbox from the past two weeks:

It always seems like people think of sports viewership the same in Canada as the U.S. with big #'s for multiple sports. Where if a regular season NHL game gets 2.0M in Canada that must mean other sports get over a million and it's just not like that, at all. Plus all the "basketball is passing hockey in popularity in Canada" posts on this site that don't make any sense, etc..

-CANADA avg viewership-

NBA Finals
Game 1: 300k
Game 2: 276k

F1 Canadian GP: 632k

CFL Week 1
MTL-WPG: 691k
HAM-CGY: 496k
SSK-EDM: 453k
BCL-TOR: 438k

WNBA
May 28 Caitlin Clark v. LA: "under 40k" was the note for it.

Blue Jays (this past Thurs-Sun)
THU: 347k
FRI: 542k
SAT: 551k
SUN: 604k
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Source? “In my inbox” is not a source.
 

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NextBigThing said:
Source? “In my inbox” is not a source.
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I thought @Bear of Bad News told you a year ago that you couldn't ask anyone else for a source because of the time you were caught lying, again, and the best excuse that you could come up with was that you were "hungover."

Or like a month ago when you implied @Fenway doesn't have any sources and that a majority of his claims are quote, "blatant lies" and that you could provide a list that proves it. Which, to no ones surprise, you didn't provide anything.

Regardless, a quick search provides an article from today, that has not all but a majority of the numbers I posted -enough to verify accuracy of what was "in my inbox"- and shocker, they're either the exact same I listed or they're similar -- article has more complete numbers down to the hundred and there's one with a 5k difference due to difference of overnights and the many days later final numbers.

 
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Reaser said:
Here's some non-NHL Canadian numbers that were in my inbox from the past two weeks:

It always seems like people think of sports viewership the same in Canada as the U.S. with big #'s for multiple sports. Where if a regular season NHL game gets 2.0M in Canada that must mean other sports get over a million and it's just not like that, at all. Plus all the "basketball is passing hockey in popularity in Canada" posts on this site that don't make any sense, etc..

-CANADA avg viewership-

NBA Finals
Game 1: 300k
Game 2: 276k

F1 Canadian GP: 632k

CFL Week 1
MTL-WPG: 691k
HAM-CGY: 496k
SSK-EDM: 453k
BCL-TOR: 438k

WNBA
May 28 Caitlin Clark v. LA: "under 40k" was the note for it.

Blue Jays (this past Thurs-Sun)
THU: 347k
FRI: 542k
SAT: 551k
SUN: 604k
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Wow, NBA and WNBA does really bad in Canada.
 
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