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Sunday’s IndyCar race from Detroit averaged 1.17 million viewers on FOX, up 10% from last year (1.06M) and the highest average for IndyCar at the venue since 2021, when coverage on NBC ran in a truncated telecast window due to French Open overrun. Read more

Saturday’s UEFA Champions League Final, won by Paris-Saint Germain over Arsenal, averaged 3.09 million viewers on CBS — up 51% from last year (PSG-Inter Milan: 2.04M) — and the largest audience on record for a club soccer match of any kind on English-language television. Read more

Last Thursday’s opening day of the Women’s College World Series averaged 1.2 million viewers on ESPN, up 63% from last year and the highest average on record for the opening day of play. Read more

The four-game Golden Knights-Avalanche NHL Western Conference Final averaged 2.2 million viewers on ESPN, making it the most-watched WCF since 2015. The surprising sweep increased 44% from last year’s five-game Oilers-Stars series on ESPN. Read more

Last Thursday’s Thunder-Spurs NBA Western Conference Finals Game 6 averaged 11.59 million viewers on NBC across a Nielsen-measured linear audience (9.28M) and streaming viewership tracked by Adobe Analytics (2.32M), marking the largest audience for a conference final Game 6 since Lakers-Kings on NBC in 2002 (16.64M). Read more

The recently-completed English Premier League season averaged 535,000 viewers across NBC and USA Network, per a combination of a Nielsen-measured linear audience and streaming viewership tracked by Adobe Analytics — trailing only the 2023-24 season (546K) as the most-watched across those platforms. Read more

The NCAA softball super regionals averaged 695,000 viewers last week, up 48% from last year and the highest average on record for the round. This year produced the three most-watched individual super regional games, led by Arizona State-Texas Game 3 on ESPN last Sunday evening at a 0.7 rating and 1.28 million viewers. Read more