Television viewership has increased by double-digits for the Tour de France on NBCSN. In other news, ESPN had a decline for Sunday Night Baseball last week and IndyCar hit a season-low from Pocono.
Viewership Up Double-Digits For Tour de France
- Live coverage of the 2014 Tour de France averaged 274,000 viewers on NBCSN through six days, up 12% from last year. The top telecast thus far was Stage 1 coverage last Saturday morning, which earned 366,000 viewers. (NBC Sports, Awful Announcing)
Sunday Night Baseball Low on ESPN; All-Star Selection Show Up
- The Rays/Tigers Sunday Night Baseball game earned 1.6 million viewers on ESPN last week, down 16% from Red Sox/Angels last year (1.9M), and the fifth-smallest audience of the season for a Sunday night game (15 telecasts). The MLB All-Star Selection Show earlier in the night pulled in 1.1 million, up 17% from last year on FOX (966K). (Sun. numbers from The Futon Critic)
IndyCar Hits Season-Low at Pocono
- Last week’s IndyCar series race from Pocono earned a 0.2 U.S. rating and 342,000 viewers on NBCSN, down 78% in ratings and 74% in viewership from last year’s inaugural race on ABC (0.9, 1.3M), and the smallest audience of the season for an IndyCar race on any network. The previous low was 361,000 for Race 1 of the Houston doubleheader. (Sun. numbers from Awful Announcing)
