A potential playoff preview between the Suns and Nuggets topped the sports viewership charts for Tuesday, March 5.
Tuesday’s Suns-Nuggets NBA regular season game averaged 1.20 million viewers on TNT, down 11% from Grizzlies-Lakers last year (1.35M) but still the most-watched sportscast of the day. The Celtics-Cavaliers lead-in averaged 1.05 million, placing second for the night and up 18% from Sixers-Timberwolves a year ago (886K).
The full doubleheader averaged 1.12 million, virtually even. TNT’s coverage was exclusive in each of the home markets except for Boston, where coverage co-existed with NBC Sports Boston.
Shifting to the college game, ESPN averaged 801,000 for Kansas State-Kansas and 747,000 for Alabama-Florida, placing third and fourth for the night. ESPN2 added 239,000 for Syracuse-Clemson and 131,000 for Florida State-Pittsburgh. Over on FS1, Providence-Georgetown drew 126,000, followed by Nevada-Boise State at 85,000 and St. John’s-DePaul at 84,000. Last year’s comparable windows were conference tournament games.
Further down the dial, a Yankees-Mets Major League Baseball Spring Training game averaged 390,000 on ESPN. A Concacaf Champions Cup round of 16 match between the Philadelphia Union of MLS and Pachuca of Liga MX averaged 107,000 on FS2, followed by Orlando City-Tigres UANL at 66,000. Coverage of the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate golf tournament averaged 82,000 on Golf Channel.
Tuesday, March 5 sports ratings
Updated chart, including UEFA Champions League on CBS:
Original chart below:
