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A face off during Game 6 of the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Oilers and Panthers.

Game 6 of Stanley Cup Final brings in series-high viewership numbers

4.2 million viewers tuned into the Game 6 matchup on Friday night.

By Reice Shipley OnJun 22, 2024 3
UFL helmets and logo

UFL executives inspired by positive viewership numbers

"The UFL at this point is a part of the Fox portfolio, and it’s going to grow."

By Reice Shipley OnJun 22, 2024 0
Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final

Game 4 of Stanley Cup Final continues viewership boom from 2023 for ESPN

All four games of the 2024 Stanley Cup on ESPN have surpassed prior year viewership numbers.

By Reice Shipley OnJun 16, 2024 1
Josef Newgarden crosses the finish line to win the Indianapolis 500

NBC’s broadcast of Indianapolis 500 viewership up 8% from 2023

The race was also the most-streamed INDYCAR race of all time.

By Robert O'Neill OnMay 27, 2024 3
Iowa Hawkeyes versus the UConn Huskies

Iowa-UConn Final Four game averages 14.2 million viewers, ESPN’s biggest basketball audience ever

Friday's Iowa-UConn Final Four matchup reached incredible new heights for women's college basketball.

By Reice Shipley OnApr 6, 2024 2
Feb 11, 2024; Paradise, Nevada, USA; Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

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CBS records most-watched telecast in history with Super Bowl LVIII broadcast

Peacock NFL broadcast

Peacock’s first exclusive NFL broadcast lags behind traditional NBC broadcast in viewership

9.9 million total viewers tuned into the first-ever exclusive NFL broadcast on Peacock Saturday.

By Reice Shipley OnDec 29, 2023 6
Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game against the Commanders

CBS broadcast of Cowboys-Commanders on Thanksgiving Day becomes third-most watched regular season game ever

The Cowboys are America's team whether you love them, or you love to hate them...

By Reice Shipley OnNov 24, 2023 3
thursday night football logo

Nielsen blasts Video Advertising Bureau around Thursday Night Football measurement controversy

"We believe that our principled, transparent and open approach to integrating first-party data requires all publishers to play by the same rules and will accelerate the industry’s move toward a streaming-first world."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 30, 2023 0
The Chiefs celebrate their Super Bowl LVII win.

Super Bowl viewership up six percent in Canada, TSN and RDS set streaming record

Bell Media's CTV/TSN/RDS broadcasts of Super Bowl LVII averaged 8.6 million viewers.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnFeb 14, 2023 0
Roger Goodell hosting the 2020 NFL draft.

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.

By Ken Fang OnMay 7, 2020 1
Michael Jordan in The Last Dance.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnApr 20, 2020 0
The LSU-Clemson game saw some great plays, like this Thaddeus Moss TD, but didn't pull in a massive rating by title game standards.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJan 14, 2020 4
Ohio State lost to Clemson, but it seems unlikely that was because of an ESPN conspiracy.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnDec 30, 2019 15
Who would be in the College Football Playoff if it went by viewership?

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnDec 13, 2019 9
Who would be in the College Football Playoff if it went by viewership?

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnDec 5, 2019 2

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

By Ken Fang OnJun 13, 2018 7

2018 PyeongChang Games are the least-watched Olympics ever

PyeongChang averaged a 17% drop in ratings compared to Sochi in 2014

By Ken Fang OnFeb 27, 2018 4
Roger Goodell

NFL Commish Goodell not worried about ratings downturn

Goodell looked at the positive rather than focus on falling viewership in 2017

By Ken Fang OnJan 9, 2018 9
ESPN flag

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.

By Ken Fang OnJan 3, 2018 6

NASCAR viewership in 2017 drops 10%, but ad revenue increases

Races on Fox and NBC averaged 4.07 million viewers down from last year.

By Ken Fang OnNov 27, 2017 2

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.

By Ken Fang OnOct 25, 2017 1

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

By Ken Fang OnSep 4, 2017 0

ABC joins Nielsen’s out-of-home viewing measurement service

ABC joins ESPN, Turner and Fox Sports in getting out-of-home viewership measured

By Ken Fang OnAug 21, 2017 0
Big 3 offer to Caitlin Clark

After decent debut, Big3 basketball viewership on FS1 down, but still better than last year

Viewership dropped to 129,000 in Week 3, but may be on the way back up

By Ken Fang OnJul 28, 2017 2

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