NBCSN drew 1.13 million viewers for Manchester City-Manchester United last Sunday from 10:57am-1:04pm ET, marking the most-viewed EPL match ever on U.S. cable TV. The previous record was 1.03 million viewers for the same matchup on ESPN on April 30, 2012. Last Sunday’s game peaked at 1.3 million viewers from 11:15-11:30am. To date, NBC and NBCSN are combining to average 486,000 viewers for EPL games this season, up 10% from the same point in the ’13-14 season.
|
MOST-VIEWED EPL MATCHES ON CABLE TV IN THE U.S.
|
|
DATE
|
MATCH
|
NET
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|
4/12/15
|
Man City-ManU
|
NBCSN
|
1,133
|
|
4/30/12
|
ManU-Man City
|
ESPN
|
1,033
|
|
1/19/14
|
Chelsea-ManU
|
NBCSN
|
1,019
|
|
3/22/15
|
Liverpool-ManU
|
NBCSN
|
950
|
|
10/5/14
|
Chelsea-Arsenal
|
NBCSN
|
874
|
| |
|
|
|
AROUND THE DIAMOND: ESPN drew 2.29 million viewers for “Sunday Night Baseball” last week, which featured the net’s first Red Sox-Yankees telecast of the season. That figure is down 17% from 2.77 million viewers for the same game on the same night last season. The first game in the series last Friday, which lasted just over seven hours, averaged 460,000 viewers on MLB Network, helping the net to its best regular-season total-day audience on record. MLB Net’s previous record was during former MLBer Derek Jeter’s final home game last season on Sept. 25. Meanwhile, SNY drew a 4.32 local rating in N.Y. for Phillies-Mets on Tuesday, which marked the first home game for P Matt Harvey since ’13. That rating is SNY’s best Mets game since July 2, 2012. CSN Chicago also saw a strong figure for Reds-Cubs on Monday, drawing a 3.94 local rating for the primetime game, marking the RSN’s best figure for a Cubs game since a matchup against the White Sox on June 22, 2011.
NIGHT LIGHTS: Fox finished with 4.84 million viewers for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Duck Commander 500 from Texas Motor Speedway last weekend, which was the series’ first Saturday primetime race of the season. That figure is down from 6.04 million viewers for the first primetime race last season, which aired from Darlington Raceway. The audience is also Fox' lowest on record for a regular-scheduled Sprint Cup race (excludes rainout makeups). TMS has aired the first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series primetime race in four of the last five seasons.
|
FIRST SCHEDULED NASCAR SPRINT CUP PRIMETIME RACE
|
|
YEAR
|
NET
|
TRACK
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|
'15
|
Fox
|
Texas
|
2.9
|
4,842
|
|
'14
|
Fox
|
Darlington
|
3.6
|
6,039
|
|
'13
|
Fox
|
Texas
|
3.8
|
6,269
|
|
'12
|
Fox
|
Texas
|
4.0
|
6,766
|
|
'11
|
Fox
|
Texas
|
4.0
|
7,036
|
|
'10
|
Fox
|
Phoenix
|
3.7
|
5,977
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTES: NBCSN drew 341,000 viewers on Sunday afternoon for the inaugural Verizon IndyCar Series Grand Prix of Louisiana. That figure is down from 368,000 for the second race of the season last year, which aired from Long Beach. Both races had competition from the final round of The Masters.
The charts below list final audience figures for recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
NCAA Basketball Championship:
Duke-Wisconsin |
4/6
|
CBS
|
9:18-11:28pm
|
16.0
|
28,263
|
| The Masters: Final Round |
4/12
|
CBS
|
2:00-7:15pm
|
8.7
|
14,000
|
| The Masters: Third Round |
4/11
|
CBS
|
3:00-7:15pm
|
5.8
|
8,900
|
| "NCAA Championship Pre-Game" |
4/6
|
CBS
|
8:40-9:10pm
|
5.0
|
7,903
|
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
Duck Commander 500 (Texas) |
4/11
|
Fox
|
7:49-11:27pm
|
2.9
|
4,842
|
| "Premier Boxing Champions" |
4/11
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:00pm
|
1.8
|
2,882
|
"Jim Nantz Remembers Augusta:
Raymond Floyd at The Masters" |
4/12
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
1.3
|
1,862
|
| "The Masters: When They Were Young" |
4/11
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
1.0
|
1,406
|
| PBR: DeWalt Guaranteed Tough Invitational |
4/12
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
0.9
|
1,285
|
| Liga MX: Chivas de Guadalajara-Leon |
4/12
|
UniMas
|
5:50-8:00pm
|
0.5
|
909
|
| Liga MX: Cruz Azul-Tigres UANL |
4/11
|
Univision
|
5:55-8:00pm
|
0.4
|
900
|
| World Figure Skating Championships |
4/12
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
835
|
| "The Keys to The Masters" |
4/11
|
CBS
|
1:30-2:00pm
|
0.6
|
788
|
| EPL: Burnley-Arsenal |
4/11
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.6
|
723
|
| "The Masters: Substance of Style" |
4/11
|
CBS
|
1:00-1:30pm
|
0.5
|
684
|
| NHL: (regional) |
4/11
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
634
|
| "NCAA Final Four Confidential" |
4/11
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
0.5
|
629
|
| "Gruden's QB Camp" |
4/11
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
548
|
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" |
4/11
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
508
|
| "EPL Goal Zone" |
4/11
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
493
|
| Liga MX: Pachuca-UNAM Pumas |
4/11
|
Telemundo
|
9:00-11:04pm
|
0.2
|
433
|
| "UFC Road to the Octagon" |
4/12
|
Fox
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.3
|
429
|
| "World of X Games" |
4/11
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
410
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
| The Masters: First Round |
4/9
|
ESPN
|
3:00-7:15pm
|
2.2
|
3,218
|
NCAA Women's Basketball Championship:
UConn-Notre Dame |
4/7
|
ESPN
|
8:30-10:34pm
|
2.0
|
3,081
|
| The Masters: Second Round |
4/10
|
ESPN
|
3:00-7:30pm
|
2.1
|
2,952
|
| MLB: Red Sox-Yankees |
4/12
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:35pm
|
1.5
|
2,291
|
| NBA: Trail Blazers-Warriors |
4/9
|
TNT
|
10:44pm-1:03am
|
1.3
|
1,870
|
| NBA: Bulls-Heat |
4/9
|
TNT
|
8:14-10:44pm
|
1.1
|
1,684
|
NASCAR Xfinity Series:
O'Reailly Auto Parts 350 (Texas) |
4/10
|
FS1
|
8:30-11:03pm
|
0.8
|
1,172
|
| The Masters: Second Round (repeat) |
4/10
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:01pm
|
0.7
|
1,157
|
| EPL: Manchester City-Manchester United |
4/12
|
NBCSN
|
10:57am-1:04pm
|
0.6
|
1,133
|
| The Masters: Par 3 Contest |
4/8
|
ESPN
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,085
|
