How did viewership compare to other major US sporting events? In 2024, NBA Finals viewership was only a fraction of thenumber of viewers of the Super Bowl in the U.S., with the latter exceeding 123 million that year. However, when compared with theaverage TV viewership of the World Series...
Friday’s Game 4 peaked with 15 million viewers and propelled ABC to win the night across all of television, including in every key demographic. The four most-watched programs of the month across all of television are each of the first four NBA Finals games. Through four games, viewership f...
Miami's victory to tie the Finals series 1-1 against Denver peaked with 15,256,000 viewers on Sunday. Official release June 6, 2023 5:43 PM ABC’s exclusive coverage of the 2023 NBA Finals Presented By YouTube TV continues to produce strong viewership. Sunday’s Game 2 between the Mia...
The Stanley Cup Finals is a championship series in the National Hockey League (NHL) that determines the Stanley Cup winner. In 2024, the average TV viewership was 4.2 million per game in the United States. The previous year, in 2023, average TV viewership in the U.S. amounted to 2.6 mil...
The highs since 2018 make sense across the board. Playoff viewership in 2020 was a disaster for both the NBA and NHL due to the pandemic-enforced rescheduling, and only somewhat better last year with late starts to the season forcing the playoffs to begin la...
The initial streaming viewership was strong and attracted a younger audience to games in the early part of the 2024-25 season. Viewership for the Monday Prime games in the 18-49 demographic are up more than 50% from prior years. Read More About: data viz MLSE NHL Ryan Smith Toronto Maple...
However, ESPN did claim that GameDay “achiev[ed] a 52% higher audience for its three hour show compared to the broadcast network’s two hour show.” Given that we know the total ESPN viewership of 2,125,000 and we know the Fox Hour 2 viewership of 1,979,000, algebra suggests Fox ...
During the 2023/24 season, an average of 1.56 million viewers tuned into each NBA regular season fixture across ABC, ESPN, and TNT. The decline in viewership of the NBA Finals, however, has been more dramatic, with the average audience in the United States nearly halving between 2015 and...
During the 2024 NBA Finals between the Dallas Mavericks and the Bostoin Celtics, the average TV viewership in the United States peaked during Game 2 at 12.31 million.
In 2024, NASCAR had an average television audience of around 3.85 million viewers. This represented an increase of nearly 35 percent on the previous year, which had an average audience of 2.86 million. Average viewership of NASCAR from 2015 to 2024(in million viewers) ...