ESPN’s MLB Opening Day game averaged 4 million viewers, most-watched regular season game since 2011
The game's viewership peaked with 4,480,000 viewers at 8:30 p.m. ET.
Ratings News
After network complaints, Nielsen will stick to original out-of-home measurement plan this fall
Networks clearly weren't happy at the prospect of having to renegotiate ad sales for the fall amidst the current pandemic.
Nielsen delays out-of-home measurement changes, and networks aren’t happy about it
Networks sold ads factoring in the out-of-home boost, which was set to favor sports more than any other programming.
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.
WWE Raw set an all-time low in viewers Monday
The average of 1.68 million viewers for Monday's WWE Raw was the worst number the show had ever recorded.
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.
ESPN lost 62 percent of its year-over-year audience for the week ending April 12th
ESPN is one of the cable channels hardest-hit (in terms of viewership) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wrestling fans are checking out of WWE’s Raw & Smackdown closed-set broadcasts
Not the news you want to hear headed into WrestleMania...
CBS, Turner executives seem confident that an NCAA Tournament without fans won’t affect ratings
There's a compelling argument for that, although it's also exactly what they would say otherwise.
XFL viewership falls once again in Week 4
More less than ideal news for the XFL....
Combate Americas draws record 274,000 viewers in adults 18-49 demo for Garcia-Bandenay event, 511,000 viewers overall
Combate Americas' first fight of 2020 drew a record demo audience on Univision, and was also their second-most-watched event overall on that network.
XFL sees further double-digit drops in viewership in Week 3
The XFL's ratings have continued to drop significantly from week to week.
Week 2 XFL ratings dropped as expected, but still were decent: will they hold there?
The XFL ratings saw a significant drop in Week 2, but their ratings were still pretty good. Will they be able to hold on to this new level of ratings?
NBA ratings are down 13% locally, and the Warriors have taken a shocking 66% local hit
Local ratings for 27 of the NBA’s 30 teams (with the Utah Jazz, Memphis Grizzlies, and Toronto Raptors...
NBA viewership remains down compared to last year heading into All-Star Weekend
The news isn't all bad, though.
