Not surprisingly, the NFL Draft and The Last Dance dominate sports viewing without live events
Repeats of past events aren't among the most-viewed sports telecasts.
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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.
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.
Some Ohio State fans claimed ESPN wanted Clemson, which drew 40 percent fewer viewers on average, over their school
Ohio State averaged 5.43 million viewers per game this year (for games where we have viewership data), while Clemson averaged 3.25 million. So the idea of an ESPN conspiracy to favor Clemson over Ohio State feels particularly stupid.
What could an eight-team college football playoff add in rights fees and viewers?
Adding four quarterfinal games annually might be very lucrative indeed for college football.
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.
Rafael Nadal says viewership should be the determining factor for men’s and women’s tennis prizes
Viewership for the men’s tour outdraws the women by a wide margin
2018 PyeongChang Games are the least-watched Olympics ever
PyeongChang averaged a 17% drop in ratings compared to Sochi in 2014
NFL Commish Goodell not worried about ratings downturn
Goodell looked at the positive rather than focus on falling viewership in 2017
Live events propel ESPN to 7% primetime viewership, 1% total day viewership increase in 2017
After a one-year aberration, ESPN was back on top of the cable primetime ratings in the last quarter of 2017.
NASCAR viewership in 2017 drops 10%, but ad revenue increases
Races on Fox and NBC averaged 4.07 million viewers down from last year.
Thanks to MLB LCS, FS1 and TBS finish 1-2 in primetime cable ratings
LCS games were ranked as seven of the top ten most-watched programs on cable last week.
NFL Preseason sees uptick in viewership from last year, but off from 2015
Still, networks saw two of the lowest-rated preseason games dating back to 2004
