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Audience Analysis: Tiger Gives Tour Championship Record Numbers

NBC averaged 5.89 million viewers from 1:30-6:00pm ET on Sunday for Tiger Woods’ win at the Tour Championship, marking the best figure for the event on record and best figure for any FedExCup Playoffs event since the PGA Tour introduced the system in ’07. The figure this year also is up 180% from 2.1 million viewers for Xander Schauffele’s win in ’17. On Sunday from 3:00-6:00pm alone, which is the normal Sunday PGA Tour window, NBC averaged 7.18 million viewers for the Tour Championship.

The chart below lists final audience figures from select recent sports telecasts.

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RATING
VIEWERS
(000)
NFL: Cowboys-Seahawks (85%)
9/23
Fox
4:15-7:30pm
12.7
22,195
"SNF": Patriots-Lions
9/23
NBC
8:30-11:30pm
11.5
19,457
NFL: (regional)
9/23
Fox
1:00-4:15pm
8.2
13,813
NFL: (singleheader)
9/23
CBS
1:00-4:05pm
7.0
11,943
"MNF": Seahawks-Bears
9/17
ESPN
8:13-11:18pm
7.0
11,720
"TNF": Jets-Browns
9/20
NFL Net
8:23-11:36pm
5.2
8,688
"Football Night in America"
9/23
NBC
7:30-8:15pm
4.3
7,066
PGA Tour: Tour Championship: Final Round
9/23
NBC
1:30-6:00pm
n/a
5,890
College football: Texas A&M-Alabama
9/22
CBS
3:30-7:00pm
3.4
5,650
College football: Stanford-Oregon
9/22
ABC
8:00-11:30pm
2.5
4,165
"Thursday Night Football Postgame"
9/20
NFL Net
11:38pm-12:16am
2.6
4,029
PGA Tour: Tour Championship: Third Round
9/22
NBC
2:30-6:30pm
2.5
3,874
College football: Georgia-Missouri
9/22
ESPN
12:00-3:40pm
2.1
3,328
College football: Wisconsin-Iowa
9/22
Fox
8:30-11:40pm
2.0
3,313
College football: TCU-Texas
9/22
Fox
4:30-8:00pm
1.7
2,887
College football: Notre Dame-Wake Forest
9/22
ABC
12:00-3:30pm
1.7
2,439
College football: Florida-Tennessee
9/22
ESPN
7:00-10:32pm
1.2
2,108
College football: Arizona State-Washington
9/22
ESPN
10:32pm-1:49am
1.1
1,834
College football: Clemson-Georgia Tech
9/22
ABC
3:30-7:00pm
1.2
1,808
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series:
Federated Auto Parts 400 (Richmond)
9/22
NBCSN
7:42-10:38pm
1.0
1,774
"College GameDay"
9/22
ESPN
9:00am-12:00pm
n/a
1,724
College football: Washington State-USC
9/21
ESPN
10:30pm-2:03am
n/a
1,644
PBR: Border Patrol Invitational
9/23
CBS
5:00-6:00pm
1.0
1,545
College football: Nebraska-Michigan
9/22
FS1
11:58am-3:34pm
0.9
1,449
MLB: (regional)
9/22
Fox
1:00-4:30pm
0.8
1,210
Campeones Cup: Tigres UANL-Toronto FC
9/19
Univision
8:26-11:00pm
0.6
1,107
EPL: Brighton-Tottenham
9/22
NBC
12:30-2:30pm
0.5
754
FEI Equestrian Games
9/23
NBC
12:00-1:30pm
0.5
674
"World of X Games"
9/23
ABC
3:00-3:30pm
0.2
271
"World of X Games"
9/23
ABC
3:30-4:00pm
0.2
260
"The Jump: NBA Rank Special"
9/23
ABC
4:00-5:00pm
0.2
246
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