ABC averaged 2.8 million Hispanic viewers for its coverage of the Heat-Spurs NBA Finals, up 31% from last’s year’s Heat-Thunder matchup. Among all viewers of the NBA Finals on ABC, 17% were Hispanic, up 13% from last year. Game 7 on June 20 averaged 4.1 million Hispanic viewers, marking the second best Hispanic audience for any sports event on TV this year, behind only UniMas’ audience for the U.S.-Mexico FIFA World Cup qualifier on March 26.
PREP WORK: ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 485,000 viewers for the 12 group stage matches at the FIFA Confederations Cup, up 26% from 384,000 viewers for the group stage in ’10 from South Africa. The Brazil-Italy match last Saturday averaged 933,000 viewers, marking ESPN’s best audience on record for a Confederations Cup group play match. The previous best was 801,000 viewers for the U.S.-Italy match on June 15, 2009.
NOTES: NBA TV drew 113,000 viewers for last Friday’s WNBA Storm-Silver Stars matchup, marking the net’s most-viewed WNBA game on record. NBA TV has been airing WNBA games since ’03. Meanwhile, ESPN2’s WNBA games are averaging 289,000 viewers to date this season, up 26% from the same point last year (Karp).
The charts below list final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. | VIEWERS (000) |
| NBA Finals: Heat-Spurs: Game 7 | 6/20 | ABC | 9:00-11:52pm | 15.3 | 26,319 |
| NBA Finals: Heat-Spurs: Game 6 | 6/18 | ABC | 9:00pm-12:19am | 12.3 | 20,636 |
| NHL Stanley Cup Final: Blackhawks-Bruins: Game 4 | 6/19 | NBC | 8:10-11:37pm | 3.8 | 6,459 |
| NHL Stanley Cup Final: Blackhawks-Bruins: Game 5 | 6/22 | NBC | 8:10-11:00pm | 3.2 | 5,632 |
| MLB: (regional) | 6/22 | Fox | 7:12-10:15pm | 2.0 | 3,088 |
| PGA Tour: Travelers Championship: Final Round | 6/23 | CBS | 3:00-6:30pm | 1.9 | n/a |
| PGA Tour: Travelers Championship: Third Round | 6/22 | CBS | 3:00-6:00pm | 1.3 | n/a |
| FIFA World Cup qualifier: U.S.-Honduras | 6/18 | UniMas | 8:52-11:25pm | 0.6 | 1,328 |
| U.S. Track & Field Championships | 6/23 | NBC | 4:00-6:00pm | 0.9 | 1,248 |
| IndyCar: Iowa Corn Indy 250 | 6/23 | ABC | 2:30-5:00pm | 0.7 | 928 |
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" | 6/22 | ABC | 4:00-6:00pm | 0.5 | n/a |
| Dew Tour: Ocean City Beach Championships | 6/22 | NBC | 4:00-6:00pm | 0.4 | 546 |
| Dew Tour: Ocean City Beach Championships | 6/23 | NBC | 2:00-4:00pm | 0.4 | 499 |
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing | 6/22 | CBS | 2:00-3:00pm | 0.4 | n/a |
| AMA Motocross | 6/22 | NBC | 3:00-4:00pm | 0.3 | 432 |
| Stadium Super Truck Series | 6/23 | NBC | 1:00-2:00pm | 0.3 | 327 |
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. | VIEWERS (000) |
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Sonoma | 6/23 | TNT | 3:00-6:25pm | 3.0 | 4,660 |
| NHL Stanley Cup Final: Blackhawks-Bruins: Game 3 | 6/17 | NBCS | 8:00-10:55pm | 2.3 | 4,001 |
| NASCAR Nationwide Series: Milwaukee | 6/22 | ESPN | 5:00-8:35pm | 1.2 | 1,708 |
| Boxing: Adrien Broner d. Paulie Malignaggi | 6/22 | Showtime | 11:31p-12:23am | 0.8 | 1,280 |
| FIFA World Cup qualifier: U.S.-Honduras | 6/18 | ESPN | 8:30-10:59pm | 0.7 | 1,127 |
| College World Series: UCLA-North Carolina | 6/21 | ESPN | 8:00-11:44pm | 0.7 | 1,099 |
| College World Series: Oregon State-Indiana | 6/19 | ESPN | 8:00-10:55pm | 0.7 | 1,044 |
| MLB: Rangers-Cardinals | 6/23 | ESPN | 11:00pm-2:09am | 0.7 | 1,017 |
| College World Series: North Carolina-N.C. State | 6/20 | ESPN | 8:00-11:43pm | 0.6 | 1,008 |
| College World Series: Mississippi State-Indiana | 6/17 | ESPN2 | 8:00-11:35pm | 0.6 | 969 |
