Day: July 5, 2011

Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Memorial Tournament averaged 3.34 million viewers on CBS Sunday, officially marking the highest average for the event since 2015 (3.37M). (Note that Nielsen methodological changes skew comparisons to past years, particularly those prior to 2020, when the company began including out-of-home viewing in its estimates.) Read more

The race portion of The Belmont Stakes averaged a combined 3.73 million viewers across FOX and FS1 Saturday, down 3% from last year (3.83M). Read more

Last weekend’s final round of the PGA Tour at Colonial averaged a 1.4 rating and 2.40 million viewers on CBS, marking the top audience for the event in four years. (Note that changes in Nielsen methodology skew comparisons to past years.) Read more

Entering the Texas-Texas Tech final, the Women’s College World Series was averaging 1.5 million viewers on ESPN — up a third from last year and the highest average on record prior to the final. (Note that changes in Nielsen methodology skew comparisons to past years, particularly those prior to 2020, when the company began tracking out-of-home viewing in its estimates.) Read more

Last Sunday’s United States-Senegal men’s soccer friendly averaged 867,000 viewers on TBS, the most-watched USMNT match yet on TNT Sports. The United States’ win, which peaked with 1.1 million viewers, also ranks as the most-watched USMNT friendly on any network since 2019.

Last Sunday’s NHRA Potomac Nationals averaged 905,000 viewers on FOX in a post-IndyCar window, up 15% from last year (789K). The telecast was the first NHRA event of the season on broadcast.

Amazon Prime Video averaged 549,000 viewers for its May 28 WNBA doubleheader, up considerably from the previous week — when coverage aired opposite the NBA conference finals (161K) — and also up from the streamer’s season debut May 14 (529K). Read more