- The Houston Rockets’ 22 game winning streak launched TNT into the stratosphere on Tuesday night. TNT drew a 1.7 national rating for the Rockets’ 94-74 loss to the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, the highest regular season NBA rating on the network since 2006. So far this season, TNT has seen a 13% increase in ratings, and “increases of over 20% across all key demos, including adults and males 18-34, 18-49, 25-54.”
- The San Antonio Spurs may be ratings poison nationally, but the defending NBA champions are a hit locally. San Antonio Spurs games rank first in the NBA in local ratings on both broadcast and cable, a distinction Spurs telecasts have had for six straight years. KENS-5 and KMYS MY 35 are averaging ratings of 10.0 and 10.8, respectively, while FSN Southwest is averaging a 6.3.
- The first part of the documentary Black Magic put in a decent performance for ESPN Sunday night. The program drew 1.2 million households, making it ESPN’s most watched documentary. Considering that the previous record-holder was Through the Fire, a documentary on Sebastian Telfair, the bar may not have been set particularly high.
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