CSN Bay Area on Tuesday night drew its best Warriors game rating on record. The Raptors-Warriors game drew an 8.7 local rating in the S.F.-San Jose-Oakland market, passing the previous record of a 7.5 from last April for Warriors-Pelicans Game 2 in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. The Warriors currently have a 13-0 record. Meanwhile, TNT on Thursday night drew an 11.0 local rating in the S.F.-San Jose-Oakland market for Warriors-Clippers, marking the net's highest on record for a Warriors regular-season game.
ARMED & DANGEROUS: ESPN drew 3.12 million viewers for Kentucky-Duke in the State Farm Champions Classic college hoops tourney on Tuesday, marking the five-year-old event’s second-best game audience yet. Kentucky-Duke also saw 268,000 unique users on WatchESPN, marking the platform’s best CBB audience on record.
NOTES: College football games across ESPN networks -- ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPNews -- are averaging 1.79 million viewers, up 4% from 1.72 million viewers through Week 11 last season....NHL games on NCBSN are averaging 413,000 viewers to date, up 11% compared to the same period last season....The “UFC 193 Postfight Show” on FS1, which followed the Holly Holm-Ronda Rousey fight, but was delayed by Utah-Arizona college football, marked the cable net’s best PPV postfight show audience on record with 490,000 viewers.
The charts below lists final audience figures from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| NFL: Patriots-Giants (66%) |
11/15
|
CBS
|
4:30-7:56pm
|
16.3
|
28,322
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
11/15
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
11.6
|
19,643
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Cardinals-Seahawks |
11/15
|
NBC
|
8:35pm-12:19am
|
11.4
|
19,388
|
| NFL: (regional) |
11/15
|
CBS
|
1:05-4:21pm
|
8.5
|
14,154
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/15
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
3.9
|
6,631
|
| College football: Oklahoma-Baylor |
11/14
|
ABC
|
8:07pm-12:00am
|
3.8
|
5,884
|
| College football: Alabama-Mississippi State |
11/14
|
CBS
|
3:27-7:12pm
|
3.4
|
5,403
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/15
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.4
|
5,290
|
| College football: (regional) |
11/14
|
ABC
|
3:32-7:40pm
|
3.3
|
5,175
|
| College football: Ohio State-Illinois |
11/14
|
ABC
|
12:01-3:32pm
|
2.6
|
4,079
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/15
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:05pm
|
2.4
|
3,615
|
| College football: Georgia-Auburn |
11/14
|
CBS
|
12:00-3:27pm
|
1.9
|
2,955
|
| World Cup qualifier: Mexico-El Salvador |
11/13
|
UniMas
|
9:01-11:09pm
|
1.3
|
2,821
|
| College football: Oregon-Stanford |
11/14
|
Fox
|
7:35-10:54pm
|
1.7
|
2,795
|
| College football: Wake Forest-Notre Dame |
11/14
|
NBC
|
3:30-6:45pm
|
1.3
|
1,900
|
"NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
Quicken Loans 500 (Phoenix)* |
11/15
|
NBC
|
2:45-6:00pm
|
1.1
|
1,600
|
| "Fox College Kickoff" |
11/14
|
Fox
|
7:00-7:30pm
|
0.8
|
1,256
|
| "Fox NFL Kickoff" |
11/15
|
Fox
|
11:00am-12:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,166
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating |
11/15
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,000
|
World Cup qualifier:
U.S.-St. Vincent & the Grenadines |
11/13
|
UniMas
|
6:50-9:01pm
|
0.4
|
799
|
| "Family Skating Tribute" |
11/15
|
ABC
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.5
|
696
|
| "Countdown to Kickoff" |
11/14
|
NBC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.5
|
668
|
| Liga MX: Atlas-Chivas de Guadalajara |
11/11
|
Azteca
|
9:19-11:30pm
|
0.3
|
657
|
| Ironman World Championships (taped) |
11/14
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
588
|
| "World of X Games: WSL Surfing" |
11/15
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
353
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| "Monday Night Football": Bears-Chargers |
11/9
|
ESPN
|
8:10-11:39pm
|
7.3
|
11,438
|
| "Thursday Night Football": Bills-Jets |
11/12
|
NFL Network
|
8:27-11:29pm
|
4.8
|
7,566
|
| College football: Arkansas-LSU |
11/14
|
ESPN
|
7:15-10:33pm
|
2.2
|
3,638
|
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
CampingWorld.com 500 (Phoenix) |
11/15
|
NBCSN
|
9:32-11:47pm
|
n/a
|
2,238
|
| College football: Washington State-UCLA |
11/14
|
ESPN
|
10:45pm-2:35am
|
n/a
|
1,923
|
| "College GameDay" |
11/14
|
ESPN
|
9:00am-12:00pm
|
n/a
|
1,826
|
| "Monday Night Countdown" |
11/9
|
ESPN
|
6:00-8:10pm
|
n/a
|
1,806
|
| "Sunday NFL Countdown" |
11/15
|
ESPN
|
11:00am-1:00pm
|
n/a
|
1,800
|
| College football: Oklahoma State-Iowa State |
11/14
|
ESPN
|
3:30-6:58pm
|
n/a
|
1,741
|
| College football: Florida-South Carolina |
11/14
|
ESPN
|
12:00-3:13pm
|
n/a
|
1,736
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
NOTE: * = Race saw rain delay for primary portion of NBC telecast. Race aired on NBCSN.
