Tag: Olympics Broadcasters

Last weekend’s NASCAR Cup Series race from Pocono (Pa.) averaged a 1.66 million viewers on Prime Video, per the Nielsen “Big Data + Panel” methodology that is now the official currency, and 1.63 million on using the previous ‘panel only’ methodology now being publicized by NASCAR. The 2% difference is by far the smallest for a race on Prime Video this season, after the first three races saw a “Big Data” lift of 15-21 percent. Read more

Last Sunday’s Alexander Zverev-Flavio Cobolli French Open men’s final averaged 1.3 million viewers on TNT Sports, down 25% from last year’s higher-profile #1 vs. #2 pairing of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner. Read more

The NCAA college baseball super regionals averaged 608,000 viewers on the ESPN networks, up 31% from last year, and the highest average for the round since 2009. (Note that changes in Nielsen methodology skew comparisons to past years.) Read more

Last weekend’s final round of the U.S. Women’s Open averaged 1.3 million viewers on NBC across a Nielsen-measured linear audience (0.8 rating, 1.25M viewers) and a streaming audience tracked by Adobe Analytics — trailing only 2023 (1.6M) as the highest for the event since Michelle Wie’s win in 2014 (2.0M). Read more

Last Thursday’s Dream-Fever WNBA regular season game, the season’s first meeting between Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, averaged 686,000 viewers on Prime Video — the most-watched game of the season on the streamer, but also the least-watched matchup of Clark and Reese (6 total games). Read more

Final round coverage of the PGA Tour Memorial Tournament averaged 3.34 million viewers on CBS Sunday, officially marking the highest average for the event since 2015 (3.37M). (Note that Nielsen methodological changes skew comparisons to past years, particularly those prior to 2020, when the company began including out-of-home viewing in its estimates.) Read more

The race portion of The Belmont Stakes averaged a combined 3.73 million viewers across FOX and FS1 Saturday, down 3% from last year (3.83M). Read more