NBC drew 840,000 viewers on Sunday for the KPMG Women's PGA Championship, marking the event’s most-watched final round on record for NBC Sports. The event left longtime partner CBS in ’06 and moved over to Golf Channel before ending up on NBC. This year’s final round, which saw Danielle Kang beat Brooke Henderson by one stroke for her first LPGA victory, was up 1% from 829,000 viewers last year, when Henderson beat Lydia Ko in a playoff from a West Coast course.
KENNY POWERS: Fox drew 781,000 viewers for the final round of the U.S. Senior Open on Sunday, which saw Kenny Perry win by two strokes over Kirk Triplett. Last year's event aired in mid-August, with rain postponing Sunday's final round. This year was down 6% from '15, which was in late June, where Jeff Maggert won by two strokes over Colin Montgomerie. Meanwhile, the final round of the PGA Tour Quicken Loans National on Sunday finished with 1.9 million viewers on CBS for Kyle Stanley's win in a playoff over Charles Howell III. That number is down from 2.7 million viewers last year for Billy Hurley III's win.
The chart below lists final audience figures from select recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS
(000)
|
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup
Series: Coke Zero 400 (Daytona) |
7/1
|
NBC
|
8:04-11:36pm
|
3.2
|
5,423
|
| Boxing: Jeff Horn-Manny Pacquiao |
7/1
|
ESPN
|
10:01pm-1:04am
|
1.6
|
2,812
|
| MLB: (regional) |
7/1
|
Fox
|
7:12-10:34pm
|
1.6
|
2,460
|
College World Series final:
Florida-LSU: Game 2 |
6/27
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
n/a
|
2,008
|
PGA Tour: Quicken Loans
National: Final Round |
7/1
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.2
|
1,889
|
| "NBA Awards Show" |
6/26
|
TNT
|
9:00-11:22pm
|
n/a
|
1,786
|
College World Series final:
Florida-LSU: Game 1 |
6/26
|
ESPN
|
7:00-10:34pm
|
n/a
|
1,774
|
| MLB: Nationals-Cardinals |
7/2
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:12pm
|
0.9
|
1,371
|
Soccer friendly:
Mexico-Paraguay |
7/1
|
Univision
|
8:15-10:34pm
|
0.7
|
1,336
|
Soccer friendly:
Mexico-Ghana |
6/28
|
UniMas
|
8:45-11:03pm
|
0.6
|
1,293
|
PGA Tour: Quicken Loans
National: Third Round |
7/1
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
1,088
|
Boxing: David Touissant-
Shane Mosley Jr. |
7/1
|
ESPN
|
9:04-10:01pm
|
0.7
|
1,082
|
KPMG Women's PGA
Championship: Final Round |
7/2
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:04pm
|
0.6
|
840
|
NASCAR Xfinity Series:
Coca-Cola Firecracker 250
(Daytona)* |
7/1
|
CNBC
|
12:38-5:06pm
|
0.5
|
829
|
FIFA Confederations Cup final:
Germany-Chile |
7/2
|
FS1
|
1:36-4:02pm
|
0.5
|
800
|
Golf: U.S. Senior Open:
Final Round |
7/2
|
Fox
|
1:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
781
|
| Soccer friendly: U.S.-Ghana |
7/1
|
ESPN
|
5:00-7:03pm
|
0.4
|
748
|
| USA Swimming Championships |
7/1
|
NBC
|
1:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
747
|
KPMG Women's PGA
Championship: Third Round |
7/1
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:06pm
|
0.5
|
736
|
| USA Swimming Championships |
7/2
|
NBC
|
1:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
707
|
Golf: U.S. Senior Open:
Third Round |
7/1
|
Fox
|
1:00-5:54pm
|
0.4
|
615
|
| Major League Fishing (taped) |
7/1
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
548
|
"World of X Games:
WSL Surfing" |
7/1
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
506
|
| MLS: Earthquakes-Galaxy |
7/1
|
Univision
|
10:34pm-12:35am
|
0.3
|
504
|
"World of X Games:
Street League Skateboarding" |
7/1
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
492
|
NOTES: * = Rained out Friday and moved to CNBC on Saturday afternoon.
