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Bell Media's CTV/TSN/RDS broadcasts of Super Bowl LVII averaged 8.6 million viewers.
Repeats of past events aren't among the most-viewed sports telecasts.
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's initial MegaCast audience this year was 25,588,000 viewers, 308,000 ahead of last year's.
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.
Adding four quarterfinal games annually might be very lucrative indeed for college football.
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
Viewership for the men’s tour outdraws the women by a wide margin
PyeongChang averaged a 17% drop in ratings compared to Sochi in 2014
Goodell looked at the positive rather than focus on falling viewership in 2017
After a one-year aberration, ESPN was back on top of the cable primetime ratings in the last quarter of 2017.
Races on Fox and NBC averaged 4.07 million viewers down from last year.
LCS games were ranked as seven of the top ten most-watched programs on cable last week.
Still, networks saw two of the lowest-rated preseason games dating back to 2004
ABC joins ESPN, Turner and Fox Sports in getting out-of-home viewership measured
Viewership dropped to 129,000 in Week 3, but may be on the way back up
Viewership down 18% from the previous season
