TV ratings for sports other than hockey

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

In a contrast to the NHL this has to be the best matchup for the ratings for the NBA since Celtics Warriors back in 22

 

[Brodie]

That's a great rating and it feels like the excitement over the Knicks is really ratcheting up too so I'd expect the rest of the series to do crazy numbers

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

NBA Finals hits second-straight high, most-watched through Game 2 since 2018

The Knicks and Spurs are delivering the largest NBA Finals audiences since the days when LeBron James faced Stephen Curry.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Friday’s Knicks-Spurs NBA Finals Game 2 averaged 16.43 million viewers on ABC, marking the largest audience for a Game 2 in the NBA Finals since the last of the four-straight Cavaliers-Warriors series in 2018 (18.75M). Viewership comfortably surpassed the previous high — 13.96 million for Warriors-Raptors in 2019 — by 18%. Entering Game 6 of last year’s Finals, 34-straight NBA Finals games had failed to hit the 14 million mark. Now, three-straight have averaged more than 16 million. The Game 1 audience dipped 3% from Wednesday’s Game 1, in keeping with the decades-long trend for games on Friday nights. Of the 33 total Friday Finals games dating back to 1992, only seven have posted an increase over the prior contest. While there has been some thought that Friday — and Saturday — nights might be less of a ratings drag in the era of out-of-home viewing, that has not consistently shown to be the case. Locally, Game 1 averaged a 25.8 rating in San Antonio, down from the team’s previous Finals opener in 2014 against the Heat (32.7). New York turned in a 14.7, the market’s highest yet for a Knicks game on ABC, with the caveat that non-Knicks games have drawn bigger numbers — including Cavaliers-Warriors Game 7 in 2016 (20.3).

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[Reaser]

For Canada NBA Finals (and CFL) #'s:

"How are viewers in English Canada responding so far to the NBA finals? Game 1 on Wednesday, June 3 between the New York Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs drew an overnight, estimated 405,000 viewers on TSN. Game 2 two nights later dribbled down to 304,000 on Sportsnet. Hey, what do you want, it’s on one network one night, another the next.

More viewers in Canada right now are watching the CFL than the NBA finals. An overnight, estimated 467,000 caught the Friday June 5 game between Winnipeg and Calgary on TSN. The next day on Saturday the 6th, Edmonton and Ottawa battled before 376,000 home viewers on TSN."

Hab fans take a hike as Stanley Cup finals tank in Canada – brioux.tv

brioux.tv

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Brodie]

I told folks in the NHL thread that the Knicks being in it would be crazy and was told it wouldn't happen...

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Most watched non clinching game since 1998

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[Brodie]

Really going to be fascinating to see where the USA-Paraguay game ends up. I am going to go ahead and guess the English broadcast alone topped 15 million

 

[Reaser]

OOH did some heavy lifting.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Huge

 

[Brodie]

If the US makes the QF, it's going to do NFL playoff numbers

 

[Kshahdoo]

I mean TV viewership wise.



Pure speculation, but what will TV raitings be, if USMNT makes the final, I wonder.

 

[Jets4Life]

If the US makes the QF, it's going to do NFL playoff numbers

No it will not

 

[Reaser]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Adam Silver won't sleep for a week thinking about a 30M game 6 and a 35M game 7 ha

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[Brodie]

Pretty good but I would still want to see Spanish numbers. I've been very lazily only watching games on Peacock, which are all the Telemundo broadcasts and anecdotally I know several other people who are doing the same, enough to make me think that you have to have both numbers to accurately gauge even the entire English audience