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.
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The Last Dance kept most of its initial audience for episodes 3 and 4, averaging 5.9 million viewers across those episodes
Episode 3 (9-10 p.m. Eastern) averaged 6.1 million viewers in Nielsen live+same day ratings, while Episode 4 (10-11 p.m. Eastern) averaged 5.7 million viewers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NFL on CBS late window for Week 14 (largely featuring Chiefs-Patriots) draws their best rating in four years
This window was up 17 percent from last year's eighth doubleheader (Steelers-Saints on Dec. 23), and The NFL on CBS is up two percent on the year overall.
What would the College Football Playoff look like if it went by teams’ 2019 viewership?
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
Bills-Cowboys is most-watched CBS Thanksgiving Day game in 27 years, most-watched regular-season game on any network in three years
The average of 32.538 million viewers for Bills-Cowboys was the best regular-season rating on any network in three years and the most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on CBS in 27 years.
The final hour of Big Noon Kickoff got close to GameDay’s average audience last week, setting up an interesting battle this week
Big Noon Kickoff averaged 1,979,000 viewers for its 11 a.m ET-noon hour Saturday. College GameDay averaged 2,725,000 viewers for its final hour, but 2,125,000 across its three hours, so Fox's peak is at least getting close to ESPN's average. And few would have predicted that when Big Noon Kickoff launched.
Cowboys-Patriots tied for Fox’s best regular-season NFL broadcast since 1996, was highest-rated broadcast since February’s Oscars
Cowboys-Patriots aired nationally on Fox, with only limited competition in some markets from Jaguars-Titans on CBS. That, plus the strong ratings draws involved and the possible playoff implications, helped lead to a massive 19.5 metered market rating.
MLS Cup on ABC down almost 50 percent from 2018 on Fox and close to 2017 on ESPN, with earlier timing likely a...
The MLS Cup was previously held in December on Saturdays without much sports competition. But moving it up a month meant that it had to shift to Sunday to not conflict with ESPN college football coverage, and that saw it go head-to-head with the NFL.
Formula 1 will stay on ESPN and ABC through 2022, with ESPN citing audience increases both year-over-year and over NBC in 2017
As per ESPN, F1 audiences are up 19 percent year over year and 24 percent over the NBC average from 2017.
ESPN NY’s Michael Kay buries WFAN’s Mike Francesa in first month of autumn ratings, even with streaming counted for both
ESPN New York's The Michael Kay Show handily beat WFAN's Mike's On with Mike Francesa for the first month of the autumn ratings book, even with WFAN streaming counted.
