On weekend marked by sizable declines, Tottenham and Arsenal were the exception to the rule.
Last Sunday’s Tottenham-Arsenal English Premier League match earned a 0.4 final rating and 674,000 viewers on NBCSN, flat in ratings and up 18% in viewership from Leicester City-Swansea last year (0.4, 569K) and up a tick and 47% respectively from Tottenham-Manchester City in 2015 (0.3, 460K).
Spurs’ win was the most-watched match of the week, topping NBC’s Crystal Palace-Burnley telecast the previous day (651K). That match, for which no year-over-year comparison was available, still ended up with a higher rating (0.5 to 0.4).
Last week’s other matches did not do nearly as well. Everton-Chelsea had a 0.2 and 336,000 on CNBC earlier Sunday morning, down a tick in ratings and 22% in viewership from Sunderland-Arsenal last year (0.3, 430K) and flat and down 15% from Chelsea-Crystal Palace in ’15 (0.2, 395K), both of which aired on NBCSN.
Manchester United-Swansea started the day off with just 142,000 on CNBC. The previous day, Southampton-Hull City on NBCSN (203K, -50%) and Sunderland-Bournemouth on CNBC (89K, -58%) both plunged from last year’s comparable windows. Rounding out the action, Monday’s Watford-Liverpool match fell 35% from Tottenham-West From a year ago (from 298K to 195K).
(Wknd. numbers via ShowBuzz Daily 5.2, with additional info from Sports TV Ratings)
