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.
Ratings News
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.
New XFL posts solid early numbers, slightly up from AAF debut; how will it do over time?
XFL ratings so far look decent, but will the league be able to keep people tuning in?
Trail Blazers-Lakers averaged 4.41 million viewers Friday, ESPN’s second-largest NBA regular season audience ever
The only higher-viewed regular-season game ever on ESPN was Lakers-Rockets in 2003, the first game between Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming.
The early Conference Championship game ratings are a bit of a mixed bag
The AFC Championship, in particular, was a low point for the NFL's otherwise solid season in the ratings book.
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.
Divisional round games deliver strong totals for all three networks, especially in primetime
A few of the games weren't close, but the numbers were still solid.
Jeopardy!: The Greatest of All Time is pulling in ratings equal to or more than some big sporting events
15 million viewers through the first three nights is a very big deal for ABC.
