NFL Week 5 ratings: CBS singleheader rises, Sunday Night Football drops week to week but stays even with last year, Fox posts a...
CBS is now off to its best NFL start since 2016.
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WWE Smackdown posts big numbers in highly-promoted Fox debut, almost doubles its viewership from its last USA show
Smackdown's Fox debut averaged 3.87 million viewers and a 1.4 in the adults 18-49 demographic.
Monday Night Football’s Bengals-Steelers game sees 21 percent viewership drop year-over-year, but rises slightly from Week 3
Shockingly, the winless Steelers and Bengals drew less viewers than last year's Chiefs-Broncos matchup.
NXT draws over 1.1 million viewers in USA Network debut
The move to USA seems to be working out for NXT so far, but we'll see if that continues after AEW Dynamite starts.
Miami-Florida drew some of ESPN’s best CFB ratings in years, which might lead to even more Week 0 emphasis
This marked the first recent Week 0 matchup between two Power Five teams, but the ratings success might mean it isn't the last one.
The NFL’s Pro Football Hall of Fame Game dropped 21 percent in viewership from 2018
The Broncos-Falcons Hall of Fame Game Thursday averaged 5.329 million viewers, down from last year's 6.679 million viewers for Bears-Ravens.
Once again, ESPN claims Michael Kay beat Mike Francesa by using numbers that ignore WFAN’s streaming
For the second straight quarter, ESPN PR sent out a release claiming Michael Kay "beat" Mike Francesa, citing numbers that include Kay's streaming feed and don't count Francesa's.
NASCAR ratings slowly rising after 2018’s low point
Attendance remains an issue as well, but there's still some positives to be found.
Combate Americas Friday on Univision averaged more viewers than UFC prelims on ESPN and Bellator event on Paramount Saturday
Combate Americas pulled in an impressive audience of 416,000 Friday.
Spanish-language USA-Spain broadcast on Telemundo and NBC averages 740,000, FS1 English broadcast averages 3.35 million (updated)
Spanish-language coverage of Monday's USA-Spain Women's World Cup match (on NBCSN, Telemundo, and NBC/Telemundo streaming platforms) averaged 740,000 viewers. On the English-language side, FS1 drew 3.15 million viewers and Fox's streaming coverage drew 204,000.
Fox ratings for Women’s World Cup group stage are up 6 percent nationally vs. 2015, up 13 percent in metered market average
The Women's World Cup has been a ratings success so far for Fox.
Fox’s first day prime time U.S. Open coverage posts best broadcast network viewership since 2002, but there are caveats to that
Fox's prime time U.S. Open coverage (7:30-10:30 p.m. Eastern) Thursday drew an average of 3.465 million viewers across Fox and FS1.
NBA Finals Game 2 overnight ratings down from last year, but it’s not all bad news
The overnights are down 20 percent compared to last year’s Finals.
Warriors-Blazers drew viewers despite sweep: fourth-highest CF average ever for ESPN, up from 2017 WCF
The Western Conference Finals didn't look great from a market standpoint, but wound up being a ratings win for ESPN even with only four games.
The first IndyCar race on NBC’s broadcast network was the most-watched IndyCar Grand Prix in five years
The IndyCar Grand Prix Saturday drew 1.07 million viewers on average for NBC, a 37 percent jump over last year's race on ABC.
