Amazon Prime’s first exclusive Thursday Night Football broadcast draws massive rating
Nielsen’s ratings measurement, however, does include local broadcast numbers in Kansas City and Los Angeles
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Notre Dame-Ohio State was the seventh-most-watched regular-season CFB game in the last five years
The 10.5 million viewers here was a giant audience number for ABC.
Amazon’s audience for preseason game was significantly younger than NFL preseason average
The overall audience here was eighth out of nine nationally-aired preseason games last week, but it was younger than the preseason average.
UEFA announces projected live global viewership of 365 million for Women’s Euro 2022, more than double the 2017 tournament
UEFA estimates that 365 million people watched some part of the UEFA Women's Euro Championship 2022 live, a massive increase over the 178 million they estimated in 2017.
Kansas-North Carolina was most-watched NCAA Tournament men’s basketball championship game ever on cable
The average of 18.1 million viewers here was the third-highest ever for any NCAA men's basketball broadcast on cable.
North Carolina’s Final Four win over Duke was most-watched men’s semifinal since 2017
The 16.3 million average audience for UNC-Duke by fast nationals and streaming metrics is expected to go up even further once out-of-home viewing is factored into the final TV numbers.
Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg was most-watched IndyCar opener in 11 years, up 53 percent from last year’s opener
This was the most-watched IndyCar opener since the 2011 St. Petersburg race.
CBS says Raiders-Cowboys Thanksgiving game averaged 38.5 million viewers, highest NFL regular-season audience since 1990
The Cowboys have been involved in several high ratings points this year, but this one really stands out.
NHL on ESPN opening night was the most-watched season-opening doubleheader on record
Both of ESPN's first-night matchups performed well.
The NCAA Tournament’s “First Four” games set a viewership record, helped by two games airing on TBS rather than truTV
Michigan State-UCLA (which averaged 3.15 million viewers) and Drake-Wichita State (which averaged 2 million viewers) both aired on TBS rather than truTV, which was part of the First Four setting an overall viewership record.
ABC’s three CFB windows all recorded season-high viewership Saturday, with Ohio State-Penn State their best game so far
ABC's three games Saturday averaged 4,940,000 viewers, their best tripleheader performance since Week 9 in 2019.
Univision/TUDN Spanish-language UEFA Champions League Final coverage averaged 2.05 million viewers, the best U.S. numbers since 2015
Spanish-language coverage of the UEFA Champions League Final Sunday averaged 2.05 million viewers on Univision and TUDN, a 41 percent jump over their coverage last year.
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.
