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The NBA's cable TV ratings are down 13% across all properties, per Nielsen. But consider this: A Nov. 29 game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Lakers drew 1.14 million viewers to ...
The final viewership numbers are in for the NBA's five games on Christmas Day and they were even better than first thought, the league and ESPN announced Monday. An average of 5.335 million ...
Those numbers represent the most-watched NBA regular season game in five years. Wednesday’s numbers pushed NBA viewership for the season across ESPN platforms to up 4% over last season. The league also saw more than 500 million video views on its social media platforms Wednesday, a new record.
The 1987 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics was the highest rated and most watched NBA Finals series on CBS, averaging a 15.9 rating / 32 share and 24.12 million viewers. Game 7 of the 1988 NBA Finals registered the network's highest rated and most watched NBA game with a 21.2 rating / 37 share.
Sports Media Watch reported in mid-December that an average of 1.4 million viewers were watching NBA games on ABC, ESPN and TNT this season, which is down 19% from last year. Barkley and the ...
ABC then gained the NBA in 1964, airing its first NBA game on January 3, 1965. Up until the 1970–71 season, ABC often aired NBA games as segments of its popular ABC's Wide World of Sports anthology series rather than standalone broadcasts. CBS took over national rights from ABC in 1973. The late 1970s and early 1980s was notoriously known as ...
ESPN had made the down-and-distance graphic yellow, so it looked like there was a flag on every play. [114] ESPN's Bill Hofheimer tweeted "Our ESPN production team is aware of the feedback on the #MNF down and distance graphic. We have called an audible and adjusted for the 2nd half of #HOUvs NO and for the #DENvs OAK game to follow."
The NFL's Christmas viewership didn't match Thanksgiving numbers, while the NBA had improved ratings after a decline early on in the season. But it's clear the NFL is king, no matter the day.