TV ratings for sports other than hockey

[Reaser]

For those that track MLS numbers:

Sunday Atlanta-Chicago game did 64k on FS1

 

[LadyStanley]

Kings-Warriors Game 4: Largest first-round audience since '02

The Game 4 broadcast averaged 7.5 million viewers and peaked with 10.4 million viewers during the 6 p.m. ET quarter-hour.

theathletic.com

• The broadcast averaged 7.5 million viewers and peaked with 10.4 million viewers during the 6 p.m. ET quarter-hour, according to Nielsen.
• It was the most-watched first-round game since April 28, 2002, when the Los Angeles Lakers and stars Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal faced the Portland Trail Blazers. The 2002 game recorded 8.5 million viewers.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Adam Silver prays every day for Steph Curry health

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

NFL Draft viewership rebounds from last year

NFL Draft viewership bounced back from last year, led by a double-digit jump for the primary ESPN broadcast.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[No Fun Shogun]

NFL is king. Any other sport wouod kill to have that kind of draw for a game seven championship between two mega markets, much less a draft show(s).

 

[LadyStanley]

And more than 300k fans in attendance

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Warriors-Kings finale nears 10 million, top first round game since '99

For the third time in seven highly-viewed games, Warriors-Kings delivered an NBA viewership milestone on ABC.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Sunday’s Warriors-Kings first round NBA playoff Game 7 averaged 9.84 million viewers on ABC, marking the largest first round playoff audience since Kings-Jazz Game 5 on NBC in 1999, and the largest first or second round audience since Raptors-Sixers Game 7 in 2001.

 

[LadyStanley]

Super Bowl LVII now most-watched in history after updated Nielsen numbers

The Chiefs' win over the Eagles jumped from No. 3 to No. 1 in viewership.

sports.yahoo.com

Updated SuperBowl #s.... 115.1 million

 

[Reaser]

For those that track MLS numbers:

Sunday Atlanta-Chicago game did 64k on FS1

Sunday Minnesota-Dallas did 87k on FS1

Improvement.

 

[OG6ix]

Sunday Minnesota-Dallas did 87k on FS1

Improvement.

That's horrible. How are they doing on Apple+ now?

 

[Reaser]

That's horrible. How are they doing on Apple+ now?

The general rule with streaming is, if they release/leak/PR numbers then it's good, good enough or they're lying. If we don't see anything, underwhelming at best to disaster at worst. Since we haven't seen anything, I take it as somewhere between disaster-to-underwhelming.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Lakers-Warriors Game 1 best early round game on cable since 2012

The first playoff series in four years to pit LeBron James against Stephen Curry delivered as expected in Game 1.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Tuesday’s Lakers-Warriors second round NBA playoff Game 1 averaged 7.36 million viewers on TNT, the largest first or second round audience on cable in 11 years — since Lakers-Thunder Game 5 on TNT in 2012 (8.15M). Viewership jumped 38% from Warriors-Grizzlies Game 2 in the same window last year (5.32M). Ratings were not immediately available. Lakers-Warriors marks the first playoff meeting between James and Curry since they met in four-straight NBA Finals while James was a member of the Cavaliers. James’ Lakers did play Curry’s Warriors in a 2021 Play-in Tournament game that averaged in the neighborhood of 5.6 million viewers on ESPN.

 

[OG6ix]

The general rule with streaming is, if they release/leak/PR numbers then it's good, good enough or they're lying. If we don't see anything, underwhelming at best to disaster at worst. Since we haven't seen anything, I take it as somewhere between disaster-to-underwhelming.

There were reports that apple could opt-out of MLS if they don't get the volumn of subs - any truth to that?

 

[Reaser]

There were reports that apple could opt-out of MLS if they don't get the volumn of subs - any truth to that?

You saw the same thing I did. Seems standard to have opt-out clauses but also seems unrealistic to be used immediately or during/after the first season. Think that's a discussion to be had a couple years into the deal.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Despite blowouts, NBA continues ratings roll

A pair of midweek blowouts did little to slow the NBA Playoffs' ratings surge, as Game 2 of Lakers-Warriors and Sixers-Celtics held up well.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[stealth1]

Lakers-Warriors Game 1 best early round game on cable since 2012

The first playoff series in four years to pit LeBron James against Stephen Curry delivered as expected in Game 1.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Tuesday’s Lakers-Warriors second round NBA playoff Game 1 averaged 7.36 million viewers on TNT, the largest first or second round audience on cable in 11 years — since Lakers-Thunder Game 5 on TNT in 2012 (8.15M). Viewership jumped 38% from Warriors-Grizzlies Game 2 in the same window last year (5.32M). Ratings were not immediately available. Lakers-Warriors marks the first playoff meeting between James and Curry since they met in four-straight NBA Finals while James was a member of the Cavaliers. James’ Lakers did play Curry’s Warriors in a 2021 Play-in Tournament game that averaged in the neighborhood of 5.6 million viewers on ESPN.

I know NBA is popular but the ratings show that Stars matter more then the market.

 

[joelef]

I know NBA is popular but the ratings show that Stars matter more then the market.

Tooo bad the nhl dosent recognize that

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Seems like soccer in general is not benefited from the ooh bump every sport is getting these days

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[LadyStanley]

Kentucky Derby, F1 Miami Grand Prix ratings slide; USFL gets boost: Sports on TV

The Kentucky Derby and F1's Miami Grand Prix both saw viewership declines this weekend. Plus, notes on the USFL, XFL and NBA playoffs.

theathletic.com

Kentucky Derby >> King Charles III coronation

The thoroughbred outpaced the monarch in the sport of kings, at least on any single network: An average of 14.8 million people watched the horse race, with viewership peaking at 16.6 million for the actual two minutes of track time during the 7 to 7:15 p.m. Nielsen measurement window.

NBC’s coverage of the coronation, starting at 6 a.m., averaged 1.72 million viewers while CBS averaged 1.58 million and Fox averaged 1.6 million at the same time. CNN’s average peaked at 1.15 million at 11 a.m. ABC wasn’t immediately available. BBC America averaged 261,000 (it was 14 million-plus on the BBC in Britain out of 67 million UK residents, per Variety, and another 8.4 million on Sky News).

Plus #s for USFL, XFL, etc.

 

[Anisimovs AK]

For those that track MLS numbers:

Sunday Atlanta-Chicago game did 64k on FS1

Whats most interesting to me is the complete and utter lack of MLS talk in this thread, especially considering how much we had to deal with in the NHL ratings thread.

Make it make sense

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Numbers are not that easy to find from the MLS expect the one game on FOX/FS1

 

[Anisimovs AK]

Numbers are not that easy to find from the MLS expect the one game on FOX/FS1

We all know the real reason for this. But yes, Im sure a small reason is due to the MLS lacking games on linear tv.

Could also be that with numbers below 100k it would be impossible to shine a turd that big, who knows

 

[Reaser]

The massively hyped NFL Schedule release shows did:

178k on espn2 (0.06 in the demo)
177k on NFL Network (0.05)

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Feels so dumb to make shows about it I could get just having a day for social media content to be a big factor