ESPN’s telecast of Saturday’s Bermane Stiverne-Chris Arreola World Heavyweight Championship averaged 940,000 viewers, making it the most-watched boxing match on any ESPN network since Aug. 4, 2006, when the Jose Soto-Anthony Peterson bout averaged 1.01 million viewers on ESPN2….YES Network averaged a 4.54 local rating in N.Y. for Monday’s Mets-Yankees game, its most-viewed telecast of the season. It also was the most-viewed and highest-rated Subway Series game on a N.Y. RSN since July 3, 2011 (THE DAILY).
The charts below list final ratings from recent sports telecasts. Figures for ABC were unavailable at presstime.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: 5-Hour Energy 400 (Kansas) |
5/10
|
Fox
|
8:23-11:33pm
|
3.5
|
5,755
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Nets: Game 3 |
5/10
|
ABC
|
8:11-11:00pm
|
3.5
|
5,590
|
| PGA Tour: The Players Championship: Final Round* |
5/11
|
NBC
|
2:00-8:15pm
|
2.1
|
3,000
|
| PGA Tour: The Players Championship: Third Round |
5/10
|
NBC
|
2:00-7:00pm
|
1.7
|
2,500
|
| Pro Bull Riding: Last Cowboy Standing |
5/11
|
CBS
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,146
|
| Liga MX: Santos Laguna-Pachuca |
5/10
|
UniMas
|
8:54-11:05pm
|
0.6
|
1,059
|
| EPL: Manchester City-West Ham United |
5/11
|
NBC
|
10:00am-12:00pm
|
0.5
|
679
|
| Major League Fishing: Challenge Cup Championships |
5/11
|
CBS
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
518
|
| "EPL Goal Zone" |
5/11
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
0.4
|
502
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| NFL Draft: Round 1 |
5/8
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:49pm
|
6.1
|
9,943
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Clippers-Thunder: Game 2 |
5/7
|
TNT
|
9;47pm-12:38am
|
4.0
|
6,188
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Clippers-Thunder: Game 1 |
5/5
|
TNT
|
9:42pm-12:19am
|
3.5
|
5,435
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Thunder-Clippers: Game 3 |
5/9
|
ESPN
|
10:36pm-1:29am
|
3.2
|
4,906
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Spurs-Trail Blazers: Game 1 |
5/6
|
TNT
|
9:27pm-12:17am
|
3.1
|
4,807
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Pacers-Wizards: Game 4 |
5/11
|
TNT
|
8:00-10:52pm
|
2.9
|
4,501
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Heat-Nets: Game 1 |
5/6
|
TNT
|
7:00-9:27pm
|
2.9
|
4,484
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Wizards-Pacers: Game 2 |
5/7
|
TNT
|
7:00-9:47pm
|
2.7
|
3,974
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals: Wizards-Pacers: Game 1 |
5/5
|
TNT
|
7:00-9:42pm
|
2.5
|
3,651
|
| NBA Western Conference Semifinals: Spurs-Trail Blazers: Game 2 |
5/8
|
ESPN2
|
9:39pm-12:08am
|
2.2
|
3,352
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE: * = The Players Championship had a 90-minute rain delay during the final round.
