Nielsen Weekly Sports Ranking

TRIPLE CROWNED: More than 14.1 million households watched the Belmont Stakes on NBC, the net’s biggest sports audience of the year. The one-hour race telecast also scored higher than the NCAA men’s basketball title game (CBS), Daytona 500 (NBC) and Game 1 of the NBA Finals (ABC).

HOCKEY: HIGHER THAN …: An average of 2.63 million households watched games four through six of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals on ABC in prime time. Compared with other sportscasts during the week, that audience size was four times that for ABC’s WNBA coverage (653,000 HHs), almost triple NBC’s two-game AFL playoff average (982,000) and 24 percent higher than Fox’s average MLB audience (2.12 million), all of which were afternoon telecasts.

NO LOVE: The 1.5 average rating for coverage of the French Open men’s singles final on NBC on June 6 was flat with last year. The women’s singles final was down 6 percent, posting a 1.6.

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