Friday night’s WNBA matchup between the Indiana Fever and Washington Mystics averaged a 0.6 rating with 1.02 million viewers on ION. The viewership represented the most-watched game ever on the channel. The previous high for the channel was a game between the Fever and Sparks earlier this season, which averaged 724,000 viewers. It was also…
Game 7 between the Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets garnered a 4.1 rating with 8.41 million viewers across TNT and truTV. This marks the largest audience ever for an early round playoff game in TNT history. It is also the most-watched game of the NBA season. The game reached a peak of 11.3 million viewers,…
Friday night’s Game 3 between the Denver Nuggets and Minnesota Timberwolves averaged 5.21 million viewers on ESPN. The number is up 10% from the Nuggets-Suns matchup last year and is the fourth most-watched game of the playoffs. The Nuggets have played in four out of the six most-watched games in the playoffs.
The first round of the NBA playoffs averaged 3.14 million viewers with a 1.7 rating across ABC, ESPN, TNT, truTV and NBA TV. The number represent a 9% decrease in viewership from last season, though it is up 5% from 2022. Sunday’s Game 7 between the Magic and Cavs averaged 4.32 million viewers on ABC,…
Game 5 between the Los Angeles Lakers and Denver Nuggets averaged 4.53 million viewers across TNT and truTV. The series has delivered four out of the seven most-watched games in the first round. The Celtics-Heat lead in with 3.01 million viewers. The first round was averaging 3.1 million viewers through Sunday.
NBA playoff games are averaging a 1.7 rating with 3.1 million viewers across ABC, ESPN, TNT, truTV and NBA TV through Sunday. That number is down 6% in viewership from last year, but up 5% from 2022. Saturday’s Game 4 between the Lakers and Nuggets averaged 5.67 million viewers on ABC, the largest audience of…
Game 2 between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Denver Nuggets averaged 4.25 million viewers across TNT and truTV. The number is down 2% from last year’s Warriors-Kings matchup. The lead-in game between the Sixers and Knicks averaged 3.47 million viewers. This year’s NBA playoffs is averaging 3.45 million viewers.
Last Friday’s Play-In Tournament game between the New Orleans Pelicans and Sacramento Kings averaged 2.57 million viewers across TNT and truTV. That number is a 2% increase from last year. The lead-in game between the Bulls and Heat averaged 2.25 million viewers on ESPN. Overall, this year’s Play-In Tournament games averaged more than double the…
Photo: Los Angeles Lakers/Twitter The Los Angeles Lakers’ win against the Indiana Pacers in the In-Season Tournament Final attracted a viewership of 4.6 million on ABC/ESPN2. This game marked the highest viewership for a non-playoff, non-Christmas Day game since 2018. Compared to last season’s NBA Saturday Primetime on ABC average, the audience for the NBA…
