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CBS Sees Audience Uptick For Final Round Of PGA Championship

CBS saw a year-over-year viewership increase for yesterday's final-round telecast of the PGA Championship. The network drew 5.15 million viewers for Collin Morikawa's win, which aired in primetime from S.F.'s TPC Harding Park, up slightly from 5.0 million viewers last year, when the event aired in May on the East Coast (Bethpage Black). Two years ago, CBS earned 8.5 million viewers for the final round of the PGA, which aired in mid-August and saw Tiger Woods attempting to chase down Brooks Koepka.

Yesterday's telecast ended up being the most-watched golf telecast since the U.S. Open in June '19 -- when Fox drew 7.31 million viewers in primetime for Gary Woodland's win at Pebble Beach. 

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