NBCSN finished with 3.9 million viewers Wednesday night for the Blackhawks' series-tying 2-1 win over the Lightning in Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final, marking the third-most watched Cup Final game ever on the cable net. Wednesday's audience is up 15% from 3.4 million viewers for Kings-Rangers Game 4 in '14. Through four games, Blackhawks-Lightning is averaging 5.0 million viewers across both NBC and NBCSN, the second most through four games in the last 18 years, trailing only Blackhawks-Bruins (5.3 million) in '13.
COMING DOWN THE STRETCH: NBC finished with 18.6 million viewers for the race segment of Saturday's Belmont Stakes, when American Pharoah completed the Triple Crown. That number is down 9% from 20.4 million viewers in '14 for California Chrome's attempt at the Crown, but ranks as the next-highest viewership total since '04, when NBC drew 21.9 million viewers for Smarty Jones' Triple Crown-attempt.
FRENCH CONNECTION: Stan Wawrinka's win over Novak Djokovic in the French Open men's final Sunday morning drew 1.9 million viewers for NBC, down 32% from 2.5 million last year, when Rafael Nadal topped Djokovic. Nadal's '13 win over David Ferrer drew 2.0 million viewers. On the women's side, 2.0 million viewers tuned in to NBC on Saturday morning to see Serena Williams capture her 20th Grand Slam title with her win over Lucie Safarova. NBC earned 1.7 million viewers for Maria Sharapova's win over Simona Halep in last year's women's final.
NOTES: HBO last Saturday drew 1.59 million viewers for Miguel Cotto's win over Daniel Geale, with the 13-minute bout marking the net's third-best boxing audience this year to date. That audience also is up 2% from Cotto's last HBO fight in '13 against Delvin Rodriguez....CBS averaged 3.4 million viewers Sunday for the final round of the PGA Tour's Memorial tournament, when David Lingmerth defeated Justin Rose in a playoff. That number is up 17% from 2.9 million in '14 for Hideki Matsuyama's win over Kevin Na in a playoff. Tiger Woods finished 71st on Sunday but did not compete in last year's event.
The charts below list final audience figures from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
RATING
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NBA Finals: Cavaliers-Warriors: Game 2 |
6/7
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
10.8
|
19,168
|
| Belmont Stakes (race telecast) |
6/6
|
NBC
|
6:15-7:15pm
|
11.2
|
18,600
|
| Belmont Stakes (pre-race) |
6/6
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:15pm
|
5.9
|
9,200
|
| NHL Stanley Cup Final: Blackhawks-Lightning: Game 2 |
6/6
|
NBC
|
7:15-10:15pm
|
3.9
|
6,500
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
6/7
|
ABC
|
7:30-8:00pm
|
2.8
|
4,356
|
| Belmont Stakes (pre-race) |
6/6
|
NBC
|
4:30-5:00pm
|
2.7
|
4,000
|
| PGA Tour: The Memorial: Final Round |
6/7
|
CBS
|
2:30-7:00pm
|
2.3
|
3,366
|
| MLB: (regional) |
6/6
|
Fox
|
7:15-10:15pm
|
1.6
|
2,466
|
| UEFA Champions League Final: FC Barcelona-Juventus |
6/6
|
Fox
|
2:45-4:45pm
|
1.3
|
2,198
|
| French Open: Women's Final: S. Williams-Safarova |
6/6
|
NBC
|
9:00am-1:00pm
|
1.4
|
2,000
|
| French Open: Men's Final: Wawrinka d. Djokovic |
6/7
|
NBC
|
9:00am-1:45pm
|
1.3
|
1,900
|
| PGA Tour: The Memorial: Third Round |
6/6
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.2
|
1,694
|
| FIFA Women's World Cup: Germany-Ivory Coast |
6/7
|
Fox
|
3:45-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,320
|
| "Premier Boxing Champions" |
6/6
|
NBC
|
3:00-4:30pm
|
0.8
|
1,200
|
| F1: Grand Prix of Canada |
6/7
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:45pm
|
0.8
|
1,000
|
| X Games |
6/7
|
ABC
|
2:00-6:15pm
|
0.6
|
939
|
| X Games |
6/6
|
ABC
|
2:00-6:15pm
|
0.6
|
857
|
| FIFA Women's World Cup: Norway-Thailand |
6/7
|
Fox
|
12:45-3:00pm
|
0.6
|
847
|
| "PGA Tour 2015: Coming Home" |
6/7
|
CBS
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.5
|
651
|
| Lucas Oil Motocross: Tennessee |
6/6
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
529
|
| Red Bull Series: Volcom Pipe Pro |
6/7
|
NBC
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
510
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
(ET)
|
RATING
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NHL Stanley Cup Final: Lightning-Blackhawks: Game 3 |
6/8
|
NBCSN
|
8:03-
11:06
|
2.2
|
3,896
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: Axalta "We Paint Winners" 400 (Pocono) |
6/7
|
FS1
|
1:00-4:23pm
|
2.3
|
3,614
|
| FIFA Women's World Cup: U.S.-Australia |
6/8
|
FS1
|
7:00-9:00pm
|
1.7
|
3,311
|
| Women's College World Series: Florida-Michigan: Game 3 |
6/3
|
ESPN
|
8:00-10:29pm
|
1.4
|
2,273
|
| Women's College World Series: Florida-Michigan: Game 2 |
6/2
|
ESPN
|
8:00-9:39pm
|
1.2
|
1,865
|
| Women's College World Series: Florida-Michigan, Game 1 |
6/1
|
ESPN2
|
8:00-10:12pm
|
1.0
|
1,542
|
| UEFA Champions League Final: FC Barcelona-Juventus |
6/6
|
Fox Deportes
|
2:26-4:46pm
|
0.7
|
1,452
|
| "Sunday Night Baseball": Cardinals-Dodgers |
6/7
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:35pm
|
0.9
|
1,413
|
| "UEFA Champions League Final Postgame" |
6/6
|
Fox Deportes
|
4:46-5:39pm
|
0.5
|
1,020
|
| UFC Fight Night |
6/6
|
FS1
|
10:00pm-12:33am
|
0.6
|
950
|
| "Monday Night Baseball": Cardinals-Brewers |
6/1
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:18pm
|
0.6
|
859
|
| "NASCAR Raceday" |
6/7
|
FS1
|
11:30am-1:00pm
|
0.6
|
786
|
