TV ratings for sports other than hockey

[Kirk Van Houten]

it isn't a bad matchup at all, best player in the league going for franchise's first ever title vs the ultimate underdog Cinderella

Way too many people crying since it's not Lakers v Celtics.

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[S E P H]

So the NBA ratings are down? I think the should be because you got two “meh” teams concerning the “media hype factor” that are playing pretty boring style of the sport. I do think Jokic is keeping them afloat since he is one of those players that “should be” known as the best player in the league.

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Nuggets-Heat hits series-low in Game 4

NBA Finals viewership is losing steam, with Friday's Game 4 the least-watched of the series -- and the first to decline double-digits.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Denver’s comfortable win was the first game of the Finals to trail the equivalent game of Bucks-Suns in 2021, which aired out-of-season in the month of July. Game 4 of that series averaged 10.46 million the night after the MLB All-Star Game. Outside of the COVID-affected series, it tops only Spurs-Cavaliers in ’07 and Spurs-Nets in 2003 (9.66M) as the least-watched Game 4 on record.

As I said before the NBA will miss Curry a lot since well LeBron is retiring before him.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

2.2M for the UCL final
3.5 for the Belmont Stakes

 

[DaBadGuy7]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Fifth lowest NBA finals in at least 30 years to put in context with the SCF as well.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

1

MLB WEEKDAY L: NY YANKEES/NY METS

ESPN

7:42 PM

205

0.42

1,903

6

MLB WEEKDAY L: CHICAGO WHITE SOX/LA DODGERS

ESPN

11:07 PM

139

0.21

780

Really good for midweek MLB

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Biggest match for USMNT and it's not on a big stage for years

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Ratings: U.S. Open, MLB, NASCAR and more

Back on the West Coast, and in primetime, golf's US Open got off to a stronger start than a year ago on NBC.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Primetime U.S. Open coverage averaged a 1.3 rating and 2.26 million viewers on NBC Thursday night (2.4 million including Peacock), up a tick in ratings and 23% in viewership from an afternoon window last year (1.2, 1.84M). This year’s touranment is taking place on the West Coast, allowing for primetime coverage. Viewership was on par with the comparable primetime window two years ago, the previous West Coast edition.

USA Network’s seven hours of coverage averaged 1.18 million (+42%) and Peacock’s exclusive morning window chipped in 214,000 — making it NBC’s most-streamed golf telecast.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

U.S. Open is most-watched in four years

Another West Coast US Open scored an increase in viewership as Wyndham Clark's win at LA Country Club was the most-watched in four years.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

The full, four-day U.S. Open from Los Angeles Country Club averaged 3.4 million viewers across NBC’s TV and digital platforms, up 27% from last year at The Country Club in Boston (2.7M), up 9% from the previous West Coast edition at Torrey Pines two years ago (3.2M) and the largest audience for the tournament since 2019 at Pebble Beach — when coverage on FOX and FS1 averaged 3.7 million. Figures are based on Nielsen fast-nationals. Outside of 2019, it was the most-watched U.S. Open since 2015 at Chambers Bay (3.5M). Wyndham Clark’s win, which averaged 8.8 million viewers in primetime and peaked at 10.2 million from 9:30-9:45 PM ET, delivered the largest golf audience outside of the Masters since Phil Mickelson’s win at the PGA Championship two years ago.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[LadyStanley]

2023 NBA Draft sets record as most watched ever

French star Victor Wembanyama kicked off the NBA Draft on Thursday night in New York.

sports.yahoo.com

NBA draft sets record. 4.928m

 

[LadyStanley]

College World Series sets record CWS viewership

Game 3 of the finals was the most-watched men's College World Series game for ESPN platforms.

theathletic.com

CWS final ad 2.86m viewers

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

A pretty much empty weekend does wonders for NASCAR

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Weekly sports ratings: NASCAR tops charts

NASCAR's inaugural street race from Chicago topped the weekly sports ratings charts for the week of June 26-July 1.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Starting this week, Sports Media Watch will (at least for now) present the weekly sports ratings in a similar format to that of the “Skedball” posts that were a staple of the Mitch Metcalf and Mitch Salem website ShowBuzz Daily. (The format is slightly different, as the events are broken down by day rather than sport, but that is subject to change.)

A good update on the ratings going foward for now

 

[MMC]

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Ratings: USFL, F1, Gold Cup and more

The USFL Championship Game was no match for last year -- or for its XFL counterpart. Plus: more sports ratings news.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Weekly sports ratings: Gold Cup, NASCAR, top charts

A pair of Concacaf Gold Cup matches involving the USMNT and Mexico topped the weekly sports ratings charts for the week of July 3-9.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Home Run Derby audience not bad despite five-year low

Despite a double-digit decline, Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby again asserted itself as one of the top sporting events of the summer.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Monday’s MLB Home Run Derby averaged a combined 3.1 rating and 6.11 million viewers across ESPN (2.7, 5.52M) and ESPN2 (0.34, 596K), down 14% in ratings and 11% in viewership from last year (3.6, 6.88M) and the smallest audience for the event since 2018 (5.90M). Despite the decline, the Derby delivered television’s largest primetime audience — on any network — in nearly a month, since Game 5 of the NBA Finals on ABC in June (13.1M). As goes without saying, it was the top program of the night and swept the key young adult demographics. (The night’s top show on broadcast television, “The Price is Right at Night” on CBS, averaged 3.67 million.)

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

MLB All-Star Game hits another new low

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game hit yet another record-low in the ratings, but remains the most-watched All-Star event in sports.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

Tuesday’s MLB All-Star Game averaged a record-low 3.9 rating and 7.01 million viewers on FOX, down 7% from the previous marks set last year (4.2, 7.51M). All-Star Game viewership has now hit a low in five of the past seven years the game has been played (2016, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023). Less than a decade ago in 2014, the game averaged a 7.0 and 11.34 million. Notably, both the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby averaged more viewers than any of last year’s MLB Postseason games outside of the World Series. The most-watched of those was Yankees-Astros Game 2 in the ALCS, which averaged 5.89 million on TBS.

 

[Brodie]

I honestly wonder how much of the MLB decline is just a canary in the coal mine for what we are going to start seeing in every sport in coming years tbh

 

[jkrdevil]

I honestly wonder how much of the MLB decline is just a canary in the coal mine for what we are going to start seeing in every sport in coming years tbh

Maybe a little bit, but MLB basically has a different business model than all the other sports. MLB is basically a bulk seller with a 162 game season, which limits the appeal of individual games and events. Teams play every day all at pretty much the same times, which localizes the sport greatly. And with so many games you don’t have standout regular season matchups and games to drive a wider national audience. But MLB makes up for it because no one sells as much content as they can.

NBA/NHL are kind of middle of the row (but still more on the bill side) with an 82 game season. NFL and College are at the other end of the spectrum where every game is a big event.

And then you have the tour sports like golf and auto racing which brings all the competitors into a single event every week.