Warriors-Lakers draws largest non-Christmas NBA regular season audience in four years
The NBA did quite well on Sunday.
The NBA did quite well on Sunday.
XFL viewership slid, but Week 3 will be a key barometer for the league going forward.
Per Nielsen, LIV Golf's inaugural Saturday and Sunday broadcasts on The CW averaged 286,000 and 291,000 viewers respectively.
This survey suggests a gain from the previous Nielsen numbers on reach (from 182.6 million to 200 million viewers, a nine percent bump) and average minute audience (from 113.1 million to 136 million viewers, a 20 percent rise).
The XFL's first four games fell 54 to 65 percent from comparable 2020 XFL windows.
The game averaged 4.59 million viewers across TNT and TBS.
Bell Media's CTV/TSN/RDS broadcasts of Super Bowl LVII averaged 8.6 million viewers.
Fox didn't hit their desired record, but came close.
Our staff offer their viewership predictions for Monday's CFP National Championship Game - will the unexpected TCU/Georgia matchup be another win for ESPN or will the shine come off for Cinderella?
The NFL put up great Christmas Day numbers, and might expand their slate there further. The NBA's own numbers were decent, but they'll have to consider what future NFL Christmas Day expansion might mean.
Nielsen’s ratings measurement, however, does include local broadcast numbers in Kansas City and Los Angeles
The 10.5 million viewers here was a giant audience number for ABC.
The overall audience here was eighth out of nine nationally-aired preseason games last week, but it was younger than the preseason average.