NBCSN drew 630,000 viewers for the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday from 10:31am-12:49pm ET, marking the cable net’s best F1 audience since it acquired rights prior to the ’13 season. The audience also marks the most-viewed, non-domestic F1 race on cable TV in eight years, dating back to the ’07 season-ending Brazil Grand Prix, which drew 662,000 viewers on Speed. Sunday’s race had a lead-in from an EPL match that drew 271,000 viewers.
SLAP SHOTS: FS Midwest drew a 12.4 local rating in St. Louis for Blues-Wild Game 4 on Wednesday night, marking the RSN’s best figure ever for a Blues game. Three of the five most-watched Blues games on the RSN have come during the first-round series this year. Meanwhile, MSG Net and MSG+ have combined to average a 4.74 local rating in N.Y. through the first four games of the Rangers-Penguins series, up 74% compared to the first three games of the Rangers-Flyers series last year. MSG Net/MSG+ also drew a 2.64 local rating in N.Y. for Tuesday’s Capitals-Islanders Game 4, marking the Isles’ second-best first-round game rating since ’02.
NOTES: HBO drew 1.24 million viewers for the main event in its “Boxing After Dark” program last Saturday from 10:49-11:37pm, which featured Lucas Matthysse over Ruslan Provodnikov in a 12-round majority decision. Showtime also had a primetime boxing event on Saturday night, with its main event -- Andrzej Fonfara defeating Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. -- drawing 618,000 viewers from 11:23pm-12:01am....FS1 drew 806,000 viewers for the U.S.-Mexico friendly on April 15, which compares to the 2.76 million viewers that watched the Spanish-language telecast on UniMas. The match also ranked No. 6 overall among the Nielsen Twitter ratings for sports events during the week of April 13-19, behind only four NBA Playoff games and one Stanley Cup Playoff game.
The charts below lists final audience figures from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
NBA Eastern Conference First Round:
Celtics-Cavaliers: Game 1 |
4/19
|
ABC
|
2:55-5:40pm
|
3.5
|
5,398
|
NBA Western Conference First Round:
Pelicans-Warriors: Game 1 |
4/18
|
ABC
|
3:25-6:17pm
|
2.3
|
3,493
|
| PGA Tour: RBC Heritage: Final Round** |
4/19
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
2.3
|
3,459
|
| Soccer friendly: U.S.-Mexico |
4/15
|
UniMas
|
8:51-11:02pm
|
1.3
|
2,760
|
UFC on Fox 15:
Luke Rockhold v. Lyoto Machida |
4/18
|
Fox
|
8:00-10:21pm
|
1.5
|
2,745
|
NHL Eastern Conference First Round:
Penguins-Rangers: Game 2 |
4/18
|
NBC
|
8:00-11:02pm
|
1.4
|
2,222
|
NHL Western Conference First Round:
Predators-Blackhawks: Game 3 |
4/19
|
NBC
|
3:15-6:00pm
|
1.4
|
2,000
|
| PGA Tour: RBC Heritage: Third Round |
4/18
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.4
|
1,999
|
NHL Eastern Conference First Round:
Red Wings-Lightning: Game 2 |
4/18
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.0
|
1,500
|
| UFC Prelims |
4/18
|
Fox
|
6:00-8:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,408
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
4/19
|
ABC
|
2:30-2:55pm
|
1.0
|
1,362
|
NHL Eastern Conference First Round:
Capitals-Islanders: Game 3 |
4/19
|
NBC
|
12:00-3:15pm
|
0.9
|
1,300
|
| Liga MX: Club America-Queretaro |
4/18
|
Univision
|
5:55-8:00pm
|
0.6
|
1,080
|
| EPL: Chelsea-Manchester United |
4/18
|
NBC
|
12:30-2:30pm
|
0.7
|
1,000
|
| PBR: Stanley Performance in Action Invitational |
4/19
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.6
|
924
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
4/18
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:25pm
|
0.5
|
883
|
| "2015 Draft Academy" |
4/19
|
ABC
|
1:30-2:30pm
|
0.6
|
837
|
| "Gruden's QB Camp: Winston & Mariota" |
4/18
|
ABC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
655
|
| "PGA Tour 2015: Making Cancer History" |
4/19
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
643
|
| Liga MX: Tijuana-Chivas de Guadalajara |
4/17
|
Azateca
|
10:26pm-12:33am
|
0.3
|
575
|
| FA Cup: Reading-Arsenal |
4/18
|
Fox
|
12:00-3;15pm
|
0.3
|
456
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
NBA Western Conference First Round:
Spurs-Clippers: Game 1 |
4/19
|
TNT
|
10:43pm-1:25am
|
2.4
|
3,774
|
NBA Western Conference First Round:
Trail Blazers-Grizzlies: Game 1 |
4/19
|
TNT
|
8:08-10:43pm
|
2.1
|
3,594
|
NBA Eastern Conference First Round:
Nets-Hawks: Game 1 |
4/19
|
TNT
|
5:39-8:08pm
|
2.0
|
3,389
|
NBA Western Conference First Round:
Mavericks-Rockets: Game 1 |
4/18
|
ESPN
|
9:31pm-12:14am
|
2.2
|
3,281
|
NBA Eastern Conference First Round:
Bucks-Bulls : Game 1 |
4/18
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:31pm
|
1.8
|
2,660
|
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series:
Food City 500 (Bristol)* |
4/19
|
FS1
|
6:30-10:30pm
|
1.5
|
2,589
|
NBA Eastern Conference First Round:
Wizards-Raptors : Game 1 |
4/18
|
ESPN
|
12:28-3:30pm
|
1.3
|
1,784
|
| MLB: Reds-Cardinals |
4/19
|
ESPN
|
8:00-10:12pm
|
1.0
|
1,586
|
| NBA: Wizards-Pacers |
4/14
|
TNT
|
8:14-11:18pm
|
0.9
|
1,288
|
| NBA: Pacers-Grizzlies |
4/15
|
ESPN
|
9:35pm-12:00pm
|
0.9
|
1,281
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
NOTES: * = Race ran on Fox from 2:31-2:43pm, getting 3.3 rating/5.104 million viewers. Weather then delayed race until 6:30pm. Coverage finished on FS1 from 6:30-10:30pm. ** = Tourney actually over before CBS telecast aired. Tee times had been moved up with adverse weather coming in.
