NBCSN drew 1.019 million viewers for last Sunday’s Chelsea-Manchester United match, marking the net’s best audience for an EPL match to date and the second-best viewership for any EPL game ever on U.S. cable TV. Chelsea-ManU is second behind only ESPN’s ManU-Manchester City match on April 30, 2012, which drew 1.033 million viewers. Five of the six most-viewed EPL matches ever on cable TV have come on NBCSN during the ’13-14 season (NBC).
GENIE IN A BOTTLE: A total of 4.4 million viewers watched the Li Na-Eugenie Bouchard Australian Open women’s semifinal across TSN, RDS and RDS2, marking the most-viewed Aussie Open match ever on Canadian TV (TSN).
The charts below list final ratings from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NFC Championship: Seahawks-49ers |
1/19
|
Fox
|
6:42-9:59pm
|
28.5
|
55,911
|
| AFC Championship: Broncos-Patriots |
1/19
|
CBS
|
3:06-6:08pm
|
28.1
|
51,300
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
1/19
|
Fox
|
6:00-7:00pm
|
9.8
|
18,959
|
| "The NFL Today" |
1/19
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
8.3
|
13,400
|
| "NFL Championship Chase" |
1/19
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
2.8
|
4,300
|
| College Basketball: NC State-Duke |
1/18
|
CBS
|
2:15-4:15pm
|
1.5
|
2,100
|
| College Basketball: Oklahoma State-Kansas |
1/18
|
CBS
|
4:15-6:30pm
|
1.4
|
1,900
|
| College Basketball: Tennessee-Kentucky |
1/18
|
CBS
|
12:00-2:15pm
|
1.2
|
1,800
|
| Figure Skating: Smuckers Spectacular |
1/18
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.3
|
1,745
|
| NHL: Bruins-Blackhawks |
1/19
|
NBC
|
12:30-3:15pm
|
1.0
|
1,552
|
| "Supercross: Behind The Dream" |
1/19
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
1.0
|
1,400
|
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" |
1/18
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.0
|
1,386
|
| European Figure Skating Championships |
1/19
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,153
|
| Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction |
1/18
|
Fox
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.7
|
1,104
|
| EPL: Liverpool-Aston Villa |
1/18
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.6
|
900
|
| U.S. Freeskiing Grand Prix |
1/18
|
NBC
|
2:30-4:00pm
|
0.6
|
898
|
| "World of X Games: 2014 Aspen Preview" |
1/18
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.5
|
667
|
| Skiing: Sprint U.S. Grand Prix |
1/19
|
NBC
|
3:15-4:00pm
|
0.5
|
652
|
| Liga MX: Club America-Leon |
1/18
|
Univision
|
5:55-8:00pm
|
0.6
|
595
|
| "UFC Road to the Octagon" |
1/18
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
536
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| "Sunday NFL Countdown" |
1/19
|
ESPN
|
12:00-3:00pm
|
1.8
|
2,609
|
| College Basketball: Michigan-Wisconsin |
1/18
|
ESPN
|
6:12-8:05pm
|
1.3
|
2,110
|
| College Basketball: Kentucky-Arkansas |
1/14
|
ESPN
|
9:02-11:56pm
|
1.3
|
2,050
|
| NBA: Thunder-Rockets |
1/16
|
TNT
|
9:45pm-12:25am
|
1.3
|
1,915
|
| College Basketball: Pitt-Syracuse |
1/18
|
ESPN
|
4:20-6:12pm
|
1.2
|
1,848
|
| NBA: Warriors-Thunder |
1/17
|
ESPN
|
9:47pm-12:25am
|
1.2
|
1,721
|
| College Basketball: Wisconsin-Indiana |
1/14
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:02pm
|
1.1
|
1,709
|
| NBA: Knicks-Pacers |
1/16
|
TNT
|
7:16-9:45pm
|
1.1
|
1,634
|
| College Basketball: Kansas-Iowa State |
1/13
|
ESPN
|
9:13-11:29pm
|
1.1
|
1,546
|
| College Basketball: Louisville-UConn |
1/18
|
ESPN
|
9:00-11:20pm
|
1.0
|
1,522
|
