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The hot start for the 2012 NBA Finals continued on Thursday.

Game 1 of the NBA Finals earned below average ratings in Seattle. In other news, ESPN had a solid rise in viewership for ‘Sunday Night Baseball,’ and Telemundo hit a three-year high for a World [...]

The 2012 NBA Finals got off to the best start since Allen Iverson stepped over Tyronn Lue eleven years ago.

The much-hyped 2012 NBA Finals got off to the best start in a decade.

Recent sports TV ratings news, including local ratings for Game 6 of the NBA Finals, increases for the 2011 Gold Cup on the Univision family of networks, and a double-digit rise in overnights for IndyCar’s [...]

Though down from last year’s seven-game series, the 2011 NBA Finals ranks as one of the strongest television attractions in recent NBA history. ABC averaged a 10.2 household rating and 17.339 million viewers for coverage [...]

Perhaps proving to ABC brass that soap operas can still command an audience, the finale of a particularly melodramatic NBA season earned one of the league’s largest audiences of the past decade. Sunday’s Mavericks/Heat Game [...]

The last NBA game before a presumably lengthy work stoppage earned strong numbers for ABC Sunday night. Sunday’s Game 6 between the Mavericks and Heat earned an 15.0 overnight rating on ABC, up 22% from [...]

Though viewership for the 2011 NBA Finals declined for a fourth straight game, Thursday’s Game 5 ranks among the most-viewed NBA games of the past ten seasons. Heat/Mavericks Game 5 drew a 10.8 final rating [...]

Game 5 of the 2011 NBA Finals was again down from last year, but the game drew one of the highest overnights ever for the NBA on ABC. Thursday’s Game 5 between the Heat and [...]