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Audience Analysis: NASCAR, F1 Up On Sunday Afternoon

NBCSN on Sunday drew 2.3 million viewers for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race from Martinsville, up 5% from the same race last year. NBC Sports Digital also had its best average minute audience yet for a Martinsville race, drawing 23,000 streaming viewers. Meanwhile, ABC on Sunday drew 850,000 viewers for the F1 Grand Prix of Mexico, up 11% from '18.

NOTES: Tiger Woods won the inaugural PGA Tour Zozo Championship from Japan last weekend, and with a weather delay forcing the final round into primetime on U.S. TV on Sunday night, Golf Channel drew 789,000 viewers....ESPN drew 496,000 viewers last Thursday for LAFC-Galaxy in the conference semifinals, marking the most-viewed non-final MLS Playoff game on an ESPN English-language net since Galaxy-Sounders in '14 (573,000)....With Fox having the Sunday NFL singleheader in Week 8, the net drew 2.2 million viewers for an episode of "PBC Fight Camp" following coverage, marking the net's second-best adjacent telecast in almost two years....Fox drew 1.4 million viewers for "Big Noon Kickoff" on Saturday morning, marking the show's second-best audience of the season.

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RAT.
VIEWERS
(000)
NFL: Browns-Patriots (72%)
10/27
CBS
4:25-7:40pm
12.0
21,025
"SNF": Packers-Chiefs
10/27
NBC
8:23-11:29pm
10.4
18,323
NFL: (singleheader)
10/27
Fox
1:00-4:05pm
10.0
17,408
"TNF": Redskins-Vikings
10/24
Fox/
NFL Net
8:23-11:01pm
8.3
13,773
World Series: Nationals-Astros: Game 1
10/22
Fox
8:04-11:53pm
7.3
12,283
World Series: Astros-Nationals: Game 3
10/25
Fox
8:01pm-12:10am
7.1
12,220
NFL: (regional)
10/27
CBS
1:00-4:15pm
7.3
12,097
World Series: Nationals-Astros: Game 2
10/23
Fox
8:03pm-12:01am
7.1
12,014
World Series: Astros-Nationals: Game 5
10/27
Fox
8:02-11:22pm
6.5
11,390
"MNF": Patriots-Jets
10/21
ESPN
8:13-11:29pm
6.4
11,334
World Series: Astros-Nationals: Game 4
10/26
Fox
8:04-11:50pm
5.9
10,219
"Football Night in America"
10/27
NBC
7:30-8:15pm
4.2
7,394
College football: Auburn-LSU
10/26
CBS
3:30-7:00pm
4.3
7,175
College football: Notre Dame-Michigan
10/26
ABC
7:37-11:20pm
3.8
6,754
College football: Wisconsin-Ohio State
10/26
Fox
12:00-3:30pm
4.2
6,649
College football: Oklahoma-Kansas State
10/26
ABC
12:00-3:30pm
2.7
4,214
College football: Penn State-Michigan State
10/26
ABC
3:30-7:00pm
2.3
3,915
NBA: Lakers-Clippers
10/22
TNT
10:54pm-1:17am
2.2
3,678
College football: Texas-TCU
10/26
Fox
3:30-7:00pm
1.6
2,583
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series:
First Data 500 (Martinsville)
10/27
NBCSN
3:22-6:55pm
1.4
2,275
NBA: Clippers-Warriors
10/24
TNT
10:39pm-1:12am
1.4
2,262
NBA: Pelicans-Raptors
10/22
TNT
8:00-10:54pm
1.4
2,251
College football: Arkansas-Alabama
10/26
ESPN
7:00-10:10pm
1.2
2,121
NBA: Bucks-Rockets
10/24
TNT
8:01-10:39pm
1.2
1,941
College football: Washington State-Oregon
10/26
ESPN
10:30pm-2:16am
1.1
1,895
NBA: Jazz-Lakers
10/25
ESPN
10:40pm-1:23am
1.2
1,783
NBA: Celtics-76ers
10/23
ESPN
7:43-10:20pm
1.1
1,698
"Big Noon Kickoff"
10/26
Fox
11:00am-12:00pm
n/a
1,412
EPL: Tottenham-Liverpool
10/27
NBC
12:30-2:30pm
0.6
915
Liga MX: Puebla-Club America
10/27
Univision
7:55-9:56pm
0.5
866
Liga MX: Cruz Azul-Tigres UANL
10/27
Univision
9:56pm-12:09am
0.5
854
F1: Grand Prix of Mexico
10/27
ABC
2:30-5:00pm
0.6
850
Figure Skating: Skate Canada (taped)
10/27
NBC
4:30-6:00pm
0.6
842
Figure Skating: Skate America (taped)
10/26
NBC
4:30-6:00pm
0.5
743
EPL: Chelsea-Burnley
10/26
NBC
12:30-2:30pm
0.5
687
Rugby World Cup semifinals (taped)
10/26
NBC
2:30-4:30pm
0.4
549
Rugby World Cup semifinals (taped)
10/27
NBC
2:30-4:30pm
0.3
397
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