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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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The latest edition of MLB “Sunday Night Baseball” (Padres-Mariners) averaged a combined 2.0 million viewers on NBC across Nielsen (1.0, 1.80M) and Adobe Analytics, down from last year’s higher-profile Yankees-Mets “Subway Series” game on ESPN, which at the time was the most-watched Sunday night game since 2018 (2.5M). Read more
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Wednesday’s Golden Knights-Avalanche NHL Western Conference Final Game 1 averaged 2.1 million viewers on ESPN, up 45% from Oilers-Stars last year (1.46M) and the most-watched Game 1 of a West Final since 2018, when Golden Knights-Jets aired on NBC in primetime (2.37M per Nielsen/Adobe Analytics). Read more
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Last weekend’s Preakness Stakes averaged a combined 5.5 million viewers on NBC across Nielsen (2.7 rating, 5.32M viewers) and Adobe Analytics, marking the largest audience for the race since 2021. That is despite the absence of the Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo and the race being relocated from its usual home of Pimilico Park in Baltimore to Laurel, MD. Read more
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The NASCAR All-Star Race from Dover (Del.) averaged a 1.0 rating and 1.80 million viewers on FS1 Sunday afternoon, per the Nielsen panel-only data that NASCAR will be reporting going forward. Using the “Big Data + Panel” methodology that remains the official Nielsen currency, the race had a 1.0 and 1.68 million. Read more
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