On a day when no sporting event cracked even the 500,000 viewer mark, Major League Baseball topped the charts for Tuesday, June 11.
The latest edition of MLB on TBS (Phillies-Red Sox) averaged 434,000 viewers Tuesday night, trailing only Twins-Yankees the previous week (462K) as the most-watched game on the network this season. Viewership declined 22% from the Yankees-Mets Subway Series on the equivalent night last year (558K).
The game was the most-watched sporting event of a quiet day, with no other live event managing even 200,000. A regional MLB window on MLB Network placed second with 178,000.
Further down the dial, NBA TV averaged 156,000 for a Lynx-Aces WNBA regular season game. Athletes Unlimited Softball cracked six figures with an audience of 101,000 for a late window on ESPN2 (an early window led in with 97,000).
Beyond live sports, the premiere of the ESPN 30 For 30 documentary “False Positive” — about the effort by track and field star Butch Reynolds to clear his name after a disputed 1990 drug test — averaged 299,000. That compares to 275,000 for the previous week’s combination of the 30 For 30 “I’m Just Here For the Riot” (311K) and the E:60 “No Easy Victories” (221K).
Following the documentary, episode two of the UFC series The Ultimate Fighter averaged 152,000, down from last week’s 175,000 for episode one.
Not making the below chart, the series finale of the daily FS1 show NASCAR Race Hub averaged 89,000.
If one stretches the definition of sports programming, ABC averaged 1.91 million for an airing of the film “Air,” which focused on Nike’s pursuit of Michael Jordan in the 1980s.
Tuesday, June 11 sports viewership
