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.
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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.
With low U.S. market sizes and no LeBron, the NBA conference final matchups look pretty grim for TNT and ESPN
Last year's Golden State-Houston and Boston-Cleveland matchups paid big dividends for ESPN and TNT, but this year's Milwaukee-Toronto and Golden State-Portland matchups look weaker for U.S. TV.
First-night NFL draft coverage on ABC/ESPN/NFLN averages 11.1 million viewers, down 2 percent from 2018’s total
ESPN won the night, but ABC picked up more viewers than Fox did last year.
What sporting events does the massive Game of Thrones audience actually compare to?
While the Game of Thrones premiere didn't pass big NFL games or many Winter Olympics nights, it did come awfully close to MLB and NBA final-game ratings in 2018, and beat the Kentucky Derby, the Masters and more.
Michael Kay closes the ratings gap on Mike Francesa further, but ESPN PR’s “beats” claim is flat-out wrong
ESPN PR put out a release that Michael Kay's show "beats" Mike Francesa's. But that's only if you count ESPN's streaming and discount WFAN's.
Formula 1 ratings are on the upswing for ESPN
With the constant worrying over the long decline of NASCAR ratings on American television over the last several...
