TV ratings for sports other than hockey
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Ratings: NBA, NHL, racing, El Clasico
NBA viewership continues to trend behind last season; the NHL had another, albeit slight, drop on Tuesday; plus racing and soccer.
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The first Real Madrid-Barcelona matchup of the La Liga season scored 709,000 viewers on ESPN Deportes, the most watched La Liga match on an ESPN platform and up 77% from last year. The 18-49 demo was up 131%. No raw numbers were disclosed, but ESPN reports engagement on ESPN+ was up 24% over last year.
In other soccer news, the US Women’s National Team friendly against Argentina averaged 228,000 viewers on TNT on Wednesday, 287,000 against Iceland on Sunday, and 331,000 against Iceland last Thursday.
To be fair, those are two of the top 3 MLB franchises in the entire league. I think the only other club that could've gotten better ratings were Cubs vs Dodgers/Yankees depending on the conferences. NHL would have massive ratings if the finals were ever Blackhawks vs Rangers.
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Yup sadly the great SportsTVRatings guy on Twitter retired so it's a bit harder to get some sports ratings but CFB is easy to find at least the big games. Will update when more numbers pop up.
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How does SportsTVRatings guy even have access to the ratings? Aren't these fairly confidential info unless the companies decide to release them for PR purposes.
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He usually said per sources but the day he just closed the account he said there's was a mistake about some numbers so source issues and then he wouldn't be doing the ratings anymore can't put the tweet since well he closed the account.
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Curry's national TV season debut gives slumping NBA a boost
One of the simplest cures for the NBA's early season ratings slump may be just having Stephen Curry in the lineup.
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We talked a lot about the NHL declines to start the season well...
Wednesday’s Warriors-Celtics NBA regular season game averaged a 1.2 rating and 2.14 million viewers on ESPN, marking the most-watched NBA game in the two weeks since Opening Night and an increase of 30% from Spurs-Knicks in the same window last year (1.65M). It is no secret that the NBA is off to a slow start this season. The ESPN average of 1.21 million in the first two weeks marked a 34% decline from the comparable point last year (1.84M). TNT games are down a narrower 14% over the first two weeks (from 2.1 to 1.8 million), but that is with a smaller sample size of six games — of which Opening Night, which posted a modest increase over last year, constitutes a third.
Not counting NBA TV, Warriors-Celtics marked Curry’s first nationally televised game of the season, as he missed Golden State’s matchup with New Orleans on TNT the prior week. The Warriors, who missed the playoffs last season, were left off of the NBA’s opening week schedule. Wednesday’s Sixers-Clippers nightcap, pitting possibly the two teams most associated with “load management,” averaged 1.19 million viewers, down 36% from last year’s comparable Warriors-Nuggets game (1.85M). That dragged the overall average for Wednesday’s doubleheader to 1.66 million, down 5% from 1.75 million on the same night last year.
No we’re near as bad as nhl declines. The nhl I don’t think has even gotten 1.0 ratingCurry's national TV season debut gives slumping NBA a boost
One of the simplest cures for the NBA's early season ratings slump may be just having Stephen Curry in the lineup.
We talked a lot about the NHL declines to start the season well...
Wednesday’s Warriors-Celtics NBA regular season game averaged a 1.2 rating and 2.14 million viewers on ESPN, marking the most-watched NBA game in the two weeks since Opening Night and an increase of 30% from Spurs-Knicks in the same window last year (1.65M). It is no secret that the NBA is off to a slow start this season. The ESPN average of 1.21 million in the first two weeks marked a 34% decline from the comparable point last year (1.84M). TNT games are down a narrower 14% over the first two weeks (from 2.1 to 1.8 million), but that is with a smaller sample size of six games — of which Opening Night, which posted a modest increase over last year, constitutes a third.
Not counting NBA TV, Warriors-Celtics marked Curry’s first nationally televised game of the season, as he missed Golden State’s matchup with New Orleans on TNT the prior week. The Warriors, who missed the playoffs last season, were left off of the NBA’s opening week schedule. Wednesday’s Sixers-Clippers nightcap, pitting possibly the two teams most associated with “load management,” averaged 1.19 million viewers, down 36% from last year’s comparable Warriors-Nuggets game (1.85M). That dragged the overall average for Wednesday’s doubleheader to 1.66 million, down 5% from 1.75 million on the same night last year.
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2024 Division Finals TV ratings:
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Toronto at Montreal — TSN and CTV 1,274,900 and RDS 439,100 (1,714,000 total)
Saskatchewan at Winnipeg — TSN 1,114,900
Average: 1,194,900 (French included: 1,414,450)
2023:
Montreal at Toronto — TSN 899,400 and RDS 448,900 (1,348,300 total)
B.C. at Winnipeg — TSN 1,046,000
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Regular season games rarely do, besides the Winter Classic and Stadium Series games.
Also, the 34 percent decline in NBA ratings is, in fact, larger than the NHL's declines.
This information is readily available
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SEC-fueled ABC winning primetime, 3:30, and even (big) Noon
The "SEC on ABC" has been the ratings story of the college football season, sweeping all three of the main telecast windows this past weekend. Alabama-LSU
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Alabama-LSU averaged 7.90 million viewers on the latest edition of ABC’s Saturday Night Football, marking the top college football audience of the weekend. Viewership actually declined from last year’s matchup of the rivals on CBS, which drew 8.8 million on a Nielsen-only basis, and was not much higher than the 2022 meeting — which drew a Nielsen-only audience of 7.6 million despite airing on cable (ESPN). Earlier in the day, ABC drew 7.07 million for Mississippi’s upset of Georgia (7.4 million including Adobe Analytics), cruising past Miami-Florida State in the same window last year (4.1M on a Nielsen-only basis). As with the primetime window, the “SEC on ABC” has won the 3:30 PM ET slot in nine of 11 weeks this season, the exceptions being Northern Illinois’ upset of Notre Dame on NBC in week two and USC-Michigan on CBS in week four. Rounding out the early game slate, Texas’ rout of Florida drew 3.7 million (3.9M including Adobe), marking the largest Noon ET audience of the weekend. ABC has now won the Noon ET window — which in recent years has been identified with the FOX “Big Noon Saturday” window — in five of the past seven weeks. ABC also owns six of the ten largest Noon ET audiences this season.
ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” — which is now an “SEC on ABC” window every week — has won its primetime window in nine of 11 weeks this season, the exceptions being Colorado-Nebraska on NBC in week two and Ohio State-Oregon on NBC two weeks ago.
ESPN also drew 2.07 million for the BYU-Utah rivalry game, trailing only Colorado’s games against Kansas State and Cincinnati as the most-watched late night game all season. In other action, ESPN drew 1.60 million for Mississippi State-Tennessee and 1.44 million for Clemson-Virginia Tech.
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Cowboys still drawing eyeballs as season runs aground
Sunday’s NFL national window on CBS (mostly Eagles-Cowboys) averaged an 11.9 rating and 24.61 million viewers, up from the same window in Week 10 last year, which aired on FOX and featured the Cowboys against the Giants (11.0, 21.73M). Viewership also increased over coverage on FOX the prior week that featured Lions-Packers in most markets (24.2M). As usual, the national window dominated the rest of the weekend in NFL viewing. In other action, Lions-Texans averaged a 9.1 and 17.40 million on NBC’s Sunday Night Football (19.3 million including Adobe Analytics) — up from Jets-Raiders last year (8.5, 15.64M) and the most-watched Week 10 edition of SNF since Vikings-Cowboys in 2019 (22.99M). In other primetime action, Dolphins-Rams averaged a 6.3 and 12.12 million in a rare ESPN-exclusive edition of Monday Night Football — marking an unsurprising plunge from Broncos-Bills on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 last year (9.7, 17.68M). It was the first single-network edition of MNF since 2022, as the two previous cable-exclusives this season — in Week 2 and Week 5 — had a corresponding “Manningcast” on ESPN2.
Sunday’s NFL national window on CBS (mostly Eagles-Cowboys) averaged an 11.9 rating and 24.61 million viewers, up from the same window in Week 10 last year, which aired on FOX and featured the Cowboys against the Giants (11.0, 21.73M). Viewership also increased over coverage on FOX the prior week that featured Lions-Packers in most markets (24.2M). As usual, the national window dominated the rest of the weekend in NFL viewing. In other action, Lions-Texans averaged a 9.1 and 17.40 million on NBC’s Sunday Night Football (19.3 million including Adobe Analytics) — up from Jets-Raiders last year (8.5, 15.64M) and the most-watched Week 10 edition of SNF since Vikings-Cowboys in 2019 (22.99M). In other primetime action, Dolphins-Rams averaged a 6.3 and 12.12 million in a rare ESPN-exclusive edition of Monday Night Football — marking an unsurprising plunge from Broncos-Bills on ABC, ESPN and ESPN2 last year (9.7, 17.68M). It was the first single-network edition of MNF since 2022, as the two previous cable-exclusives this season — in Week 2 and Week 5 — had a corresponding “Manningcast” on ESPN2.
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NWSL taking a different approach than MLS in gaining an audience
While the MLS plays many of its games on subscription television, the NWSL is putting its playoffs on good, old-fashioned network TV.
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NWSL approach to getting eyes
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For the first time, streamed NFL game out did a linear tv game in the same week.
Amazon Prime’s TNF beat out ESPN’s MNF with 13.63 million viewers for the Bengals-Ravens vs 12.2 million viewers for the Dolphins and the Rams.
Amazon Prime’s TNF beat out ESPN’s MNF with 13.63 million viewers for the Bengals-Ravens vs 12.2 million viewers for the Dolphins and the Rams.
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Unlikely it happens this week again since it's the Cowboys but TNF did a very good number again:
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The latest edition of NFL Thursday Night Football — a matchup of 7-2 teams between the Commanders and Eagles — averaged 14.42 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, trailing only Cowboys-Giants in Week 4 (16.22M) and Bills-Dolphins in Week 2 (14.96M) as the most-watched TNF game of the season. In the three years that Amazon has carried Thursday night games, it ranks fifth in viewership behind the two aforementioned games and a pair from last season, Seahawks-Cowboys in Week 13 (15.26M) and Vikings-Eagles in Week 2 (15.05M). Only one other streaming-exclusive NFL game has averaged a larger Nielsen-measured audience, the Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card playoff game on Peacock in January.
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Commanders-Eagles among top five NFL games on Amazon
The Commanders' resurgence this season gave Thursday Night Football an unusually potent matchup on the field, and in the ratings.
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The latest edition of NFL Thursday Night Football — a matchup of 7-2 teams between the Commanders and Eagles — averaged 14.42 million viewers on Amazon Prime Video, trailing only Cowboys-Giants in Week 4 (16.22M) and Bills-Dolphins in Week 2 (14.96M) as the most-watched TNF game of the season. In the three years that Amazon has carried Thursday night games, it ranks fifth in viewership behind the two aforementioned games and a pair from last season, Seahawks-Cowboys in Week 13 (15.26M) and Vikings-Eagles in Week 2 (15.05M). Only one other streaming-exclusive NFL game has averaged a larger Nielsen-measured audience, the Dolphins-Chiefs Wild Card playoff game on Peacock in January.
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