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    8:00 pm — B1G+
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    8:00 pm — ACCNX
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    8:10 pm — NBC, Peacock, Universo
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    vs
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    8:30 pm — MW+
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    9:10 pm — MLB.TV, MLB Extra Innings
  • Men's college soccer
    Cal Poly
    vs
    Loyola Marymount
    10:00 pm — ESPN+
  • Men's college soccer
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    vs
    Grand Canyon
    10:00 pm — MW+
  • Major League Baseball
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    10:05 pm — MLBN (JIP at 11 PM ET), MLB.TV, MLB Extra Innings
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Last week’s U.S. Open mixed doubles semifinals and final averaged 492,000 viewers, up 43% from last year, which was the first year of the revamped mixed doubles tournament. That figure includes 552,000 for the final. Read more
NASCAR Cup Series racing from New Hampshire averaged a 0.9 rating and 1.69 million viewers on USA Network a week ago Sunday, per the Nielsen “Big Data + Panel” methodology that is the official currency, and a 1.0 and 1.79 million per the prior panel-only metric that NASCAR now reports for its races — both up from last year, when the race averaged a 0.7 and 1.29 million opposite NFL games. Read more
Final round coverage of the PGA Tour BMW Championship averaged a 2.2 rating and 3.85 million viewers on CBS a week ago Sunday, marking the largest audience for the tournament since the inaugural edition in 2007, won by Tiger Woods. Read more
FOX topped Week 2 of the NFL preseason with a 2.6 rating and 4.90 million viewers for a Sunday night Seahawks-Titans game August 23, down from the network’s lone preseason game last year, a higher-profile pairing of the Bears and Bills in the same Sunday night window (5.1M). Read more
The Brewers-Braves MLB Little League Classic averaged 2.02 million viewers on ESPN a week ago Sunday, marking the most-watched MLB telecast on the ESPN networks this season. Perhaps not coincidentally, it was also the only Sunday night game on ESPN this season, after the network gave up its “Sunday Night Baseball” package in the offseason. Read more
Thursday’s Fever-Wings WNBA regular season game averaged 1.07 million viewers on Prime Video, marking the streamer’s largest WNBA audience. (Prime carried WNBA games prior to this season, but those were not Nielsen-rated.) Read more
Last weekend’s IndyCar Series race from Toronto averaged a 0.52 rating and 913,000 viewers on FOX, up 24% from last year (734K), and also up sharply from the previous week’s race at Portland (677K). Read more

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