Seahawks-Cowboys on Thursday Night Football no doubt dominated the rest of television November 30, but figures for the game will not be available until Monday. In the meantime, presented below are figures for cable sportscasts.
(Update 12/5: Seahawks-Cowboys finished as the most-watched Thursday Night Football game since the series moved to Amazon last year with 15.26 million viewers. More details here. In addition, a Liga MX soccer match on Telemundo and Universo finished as the most-watched non-NFL sporting event with 1.21 million.)
Thursday’s LSU-Virginia Tech women’s college basketball game — which marked LSU F Angel Reese’s return to the line-up and coach Kim Mulkey’s 700th career win — was the day’s most-watched cable sporting event with 650,000 viewers on ESPN, up from a Seton Hall-Kansas men’s game in the same window last year (631K). South Carolina-North Carolina averaged 610,000 earlier in the night, down from the year-ago men’s game (Creighton-Texas: 814K). Both games were part of the new ACC-SEC Challenge.
Earlier in the day, first round coverage of the World Challenge golf tournament — marking Tiger Woods’ return from injury — averaged 424,000 viewers, up 95% from last year (217K).
In other live sports action, NBA TV averaged 426,000 viewers for Clippers-Warriors and 242,000 for Pacers-Heat. (There were no games on the comparable night of last season, Thanksgiving.) Men’s college basketball topped out at 200,000 for Creighton-Oklahoma State on ESPN2.
(Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Nielsen remains a day behind on releasing broadcast television ratings. Amazon Prime Video is not a broadcast network, but its data is nonetheless reported with the broadcast networks. As a result of the delay, figures for the Seahawks-Cowboys Thursday Night Football game will not be available until Monday, unless Amazon Prime releases fast-national data in the meantime.)
Thursday, November 30 sports ratings
