Two of the biggest teams in the Premier League generated one of the season’s top audiences on cable.
Last Saturday’s Manchester United-Chelsea English Premier League match had a 0.5 final rating and 816,000 viewers on NBCSN, up 7% in ratings (from 0.45 to 0.48) and 23% in viewership (from 663K to 816K) versus Tottenham-Man. U. last year.
The comparable 2015 match — Newcastle-Tottenham — aired on CNBC and had a 0.1 and 120,000.
The Red Devils’ win delivered the second-largest EPL audience of the season on cable, trailing only their draw against Liverpool in January (881K).
It was also the most-watched EPL match of the week, topping NBC’s Southampton-Manchester City telecast the previous day (0.5, 784K). That match was down a tick in ratings and 8% in viewership from Manchester City-West From last year (0.6, 850K) and down 27% and 22% respectively from Chelsea-Manchester United (0.7, 1.0M).
In other action, NBCSN scored a 0.25 (-7%) and 415,000 (+6%) for West Brom-Liverpool Sunday morning and a 0.3 (flat) and 361,000 (+11%) for Crystal Palace-Leicester City on Saturday. Tottenham-Bournemouth (260K, -35%), Middlesbrough-Arsenal (240K) and Watford-Swansea (26K, -87% on CNBC) each failed to clear the 300,000 mark.
(Wknd. numbers via ShowBuzz Daily 4.18; Awful Announcing 4.22)
