Game 6 of Stanley Cup Final brings in series-high viewership numbers
4.2 million viewers tuned into the Game 6 matchup on Friday night.
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UFL executives inspired by positive viewership numbers
"The UFL at this point is a part of the Fox portfolio, and it’s going to grow."
Game 4 of Stanley Cup Final continues viewership boom from 2023 for ESPN
All four games of the 2024 Stanley Cup on ESPN have surpassed prior year viewership numbers.
NBC’s broadcast of Indianapolis 500 viewership up 8% from 2023
The race was also the most-streamed INDYCAR race of all time.
Iowa-UConn Final Four game averages 14.2 million viewers, ESPN’s biggest basketball audience ever
Friday's Iowa-UConn Final Four matchup reached incredible new heights for women's college basketball.
CBS records most-watched telecast in history with Super Bowl LVIII broadcast
Peacock’s first exclusive NFL broadcast lags behind traditional NBC broadcast in viewership
9.9 million total viewers tuned into the first-ever exclusive NFL broadcast on Peacock Saturday.
CBS broadcast of Cowboys-Commanders on Thanksgiving Day becomes third-most watched regular season game ever
The Cowboys are America's team whether you love them, or you love to hate them...
Nielsen blasts Video Advertising Bureau around Thursday Night Football measurement controversy
"We believe that our principled, transparent and open approach to integrating first-party data requires all publishers to play by the same rules and will accelerate the industry’s move toward a streaming-first world."
Super Bowl viewership up six percent in Canada, TSN and RDS set streaming record
Bell Media's CTV/TSN/RDS broadcasts of Super Bowl LVII averaged 8.6 million viewers.
Not surprisingly, the NFL Draft and The Last Dance dominate sports viewing without live events
Repeats of past events aren't among the most-viewed sports telecasts.
ESPN averaged 6.3 million viewers for The Last Dance’s first episode, 6.1 million viewers across episodes 1 and 2
The audience for The Last Dance's first two episodes ranks as the most-watched telecast among adults 18-34 and 18-49 since sports halted across broadcast and cable networks.
LSU-Clemson CFP title game up one percent from last year’s title game, but fourth-lowest title game over the past decade
ESPN's initial MegaCast audience this year was 25,588,000 viewers, 308,000 ahead of last year's.
Some Ohio State fans claimed ESPN wanted Clemson, which drew 40 percent fewer viewers on average, over their school
Ohio State averaged 5.43 million viewers per game this year (for games where we have viewership data), while Clemson averaged 3.25 million. So the idea of an ESPN conspiracy to favor Clemson over Ohio State feels particularly stupid.
What could an eight-team college football playoff add in rights fees and viewers?
Adding four quarterfinal games annually might be very lucrative indeed for college football.
What would the College Football Playoff look like if it went by teams’ 2019 viewership?
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
Rafael Nadal says viewership should be the determining factor for men’s and women’s tennis prizes
Viewership for the men’s tour outdraws the women by a wide margin
2018 PyeongChang Games are the least-watched Olympics ever
PyeongChang averaged a 17% drop in ratings compared to Sochi in 2014
NFL Commish Goodell not worried about ratings downturn
Goodell looked at the positive rather than focus on falling viewership in 2017
Live events propel ESPN to 7% primetime viewership, 1% total day viewership increase in 2017
After a one-year aberration, ESPN was back on top of the cable primetime ratings in the last quarter of 2017.
NASCAR viewership in 2017 drops 10%, but ad revenue increases
Races on Fox and NBC averaged 4.07 million viewers down from last year.
Thanks to MLB LCS, FS1 and TBS finish 1-2 in primetime cable ratings
LCS games were ranked as seven of the top ten most-watched programs on cable last week.
NFL Preseason sees uptick in viewership from last year, but off from 2015
Still, networks saw two of the lowest-rated preseason games dating back to 2004
ABC joins Nielsen’s out-of-home viewing measurement service
ABC joins ESPN, Turner and Fox Sports in getting out-of-home viewership measured
After decent debut, Big3 basketball viewership on FS1 down, but still better than last year
Viewership dropped to 129,000 in Week 3, but may be on the way back up