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Final round coverage of the PGA TOUR Byron Nelson averaged 3.50 million viewers on CBS, up 20% from last year and the highest average for the event since 2004. (Note that Nielsen methodological changes skew comparisons to all past years, particularly those prior to 2020, when the company began including out-of-home viewing in its estimates.) Read more
Last Friday’s Thunder-Spurs NBA Western Conference Finals Game 3 averaged a combined 9.03 million viewers on NBC across a Nielsen-measured linear audience (7.03M) and a streaming audience tracked by Adobe Analytics (2.00M), officially ranking as the most-watched conference final Game 3 since Bulls-Heat on TNT in 2011 (10.89M) and the most-watched Game 3 of the West Finals since Kings-Lakers on NBC in 2002 (10.06M). Read more
Last Friday’s Golden Knights-Avalanche NHL Western Conference Final Game 2 averaged 2.1 million viewers on ESPN, marking the largest audience for Game 2 of the WCF since Avalanche-Red Wings in 2002. Note that changes in Nielsen methodology skew comparisons to past years, particularly those prior to the company including out-of-home viewing in its estimates in 2020. Read more
The debut of Amazon Prime Video’s new WNBA package — Lynx-Wings and Liberty-Fire on May 14 — averaged 529,000 viewers. Prime aired WNBA games prior to this season, but those were simulcasts of local feeds and were not Nielsen-rated. Read more
Last Thursday’s Cavaliers-Knicks NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game 2 averaged 7.1 million viewers on ESPN, officially the highest for a Game 2 of the East Finals since the LeBron James-era Cavaliers faced the Celtics in 2018 (8.42M). Read more
Last Thursday’s Canadiens-Hurricanes NHL Eastern Conference Final Game 1 averaged 1.7 million viewers on TNT Sports, up a third from Panthers-Hurricanes last year (1.3M). Read more
Airing in a mid-afternoon window that would usually feature an NBA playoff game, last Sunday’s Texas A&M-Arizona State NCAA college softball regional averaged 569,000 viewers on ABC — the fourth-largest audience for a regional since 2019. Read more

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