{"id":64815,"date":"2014-01-31T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/main\/?p=64815"},"modified":"2014-01-31T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T13:51:59","slug":"ratings-roundup-despite-viewership-drop-nfl-pro-bowl-still-outranks-nearly-every-other-non-nfl-sports-telecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/2014\/01\/31\/ratings-roundup-despite-viewership-drop-nfl-pro-bowl-still-outranks-nearly-every-other-non-nfl-sports-telecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratings Roundup: Despite Viewership Drop, NFL Pro Bowl Still Outranks Nearly Every Other Non-NFL Sports Telecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>Despite the new fantasy-football-style format, the NFL Pro Bowl saw a drop in viewership \u2013 garnering 11.7 million viewers on NBC Sunday compared to 12.2 million in 2013. Nonetheless, SI.com points out<\/a> that this audience was still bigger than almost Every MLB, NHL and NBA Playoff\u00a0game over the past year. Game 7 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals (the highest rated non-Finals game by far last season) drew-in 11.6 million viewers, the second-most watched Game 6 in Stanley Cup Finals history earned 8.16 million viewers, the ALCS on Fox (Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox ) averaged 7.7 million viewers and the NLCS on TBS (Cardinals and Dodgers) averaged TBS. Meanwhile, MLB\u2019s All-Star game managed 11 million viewers, NBA\u2019s averaged 8 million. The 2012 NHL All-Star Game (not held in 2013 due to the lockout) had 1.3 million viewers\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Final numbers from the AFC and NFC Conference Championships also reflect that the U.S. is a truly football-obsessed nation. The two <\/b>conference championship games averaged 53.7 million viewers, joining the 2011 season\u2019s championship weekend as the most-watched conference championship Sunday in more than 30 years (January 1982; game-by-game comparison below). The San Francisco 49ers-Seattle Seahawks NFC Championship Game on FOX averaged 55.9 million viewers to rank as the fifth most-watched conference championship game ever. The New England Patriots-Denver Broncos AFC Championship Game on CBS averaged 51.3 million viewers to rank as the third most-watched AFC Championship Game ever. The conference championship games are television\u2019s two most-watched shows since Super Bowl XLVII…<\/p>\n

\u2026Wednesday\u2019s 2012 NBA Finals rematch, in which Kevin Durant and the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the defending NBA Champion Miami Heat, 112-95, delivered a 2.7 overnight rating, according to Nielsen. This is the highest-rated NBA game on ESPN during the 2013-14 season. The telecast was up 93% from last year\u2019s comparable game (Miami Heat at Brooklyn Nets, 1.4). In addition, last night\u2019s Thunder-Heat game led to a local market ratings surge in several markets, including Oklahoma City (7.9), Miami (6.1) and New York (3.9) and set an ESPN ratings record in Tulsa (4.9)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026The NHL Stadium Series<\/i> matchups from iconic venues in Los Angeles and New York this past weekend set viewership records across NBC and NBCSN.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s NHL Stadium Series<\/i> matchup on NBC (New York Rangers-New Jersey Devils from Yankee Stadium) averaged 2.079 million viewers and produced a 1.3 HH rating, making it the most-watched and highest-rated single NHL regular-season game ever on NBC, both excluding NHL Winter Classics. Locally, the Rangers-Devils game generated a 5.1 rating in New York, matching the highest rating in the New York market for any NHL game ever broadcast on NBC (Gm. 1 LA-NJ Stanley Cup Final, 5\/30\/12). Sunday\u2019s broadcast generated the best-ever rating in the New York market for an NHL regular-season game on NBC.<\/p>\n

Saturday night\u2019s NHL Stadium Series<\/i> matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings from Dodger Stadium, in which the Ducks shut out the Kings 3-0, averaged 622,000 viewers and\u00a0produced a 0.35 HH rating, up 139% against the average viewership of 2013\u2019s NHL 10pm ET telecasts. Saturday\u2019s Ducks-Kings matchup produced a 2.38 rating in Los Angeles, the highest-ever rating in the L.A. market for an NHL regular-season game on NBCSN\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026The impressive NHL Stadium Series<\/em> numbers come on the heels of more than 1 million viewers tuning in to watch the Chelsea-Manchester United match on NBCSN on Jan. 19. That is a record for NBCSN and the second most-watched Premier League game of all-time on U.S. cable television. Chelsea\u2019s 3-1 victory averaged 1.019 million viewers on NBCSN, just shy of the Premier League U.S. cable record (1.033 million for the \u201cManchester Derby\u201d on ESPN, 4\/30\/12).\u00a0 Five of the six most-watched Premier League U.S. cable telecasts of all-time have come on NBCSN this season\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026The special Masahiro Tanaka edition of Yankees Hot Stove<\/i> on Jan. 22 was the highest-rated Yankees Hot Stove<\/i> telecast of the winter for YES, with a .79 avg. TV HH rating in the New York DMA.\u00a0 The previous high for the season was on December 5, 2013 (.72)…<\/p>\n

\u2026The 10th edition of the \u201cUFC on FOX\u201d drew a 2.1 overnight rating<\/a> Saturday night, down 19% from last year\u2019s January telecast (2.6), but up 17% from the most recent telecast in December (1.8)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026CBS had its first coverage of the \u201813-14 PGA Tour season with the final rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open over the weekend. The net earned a 2.3 overnight rating<\/a> for Sunday\u2019s final round, which saw Scott Stallings win the event. That figure is down sharply from a 3.7 overnight last year, largely due to the absence of Tiger Woods at the tournament. Saturday\u2019s third round drew a 1.1 overnight, down 31% from rainout coverage last year (1.6)\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Sunday\u2019s Lakers\/Knicks NBA regular season game earned a 3.3 overnight on ABC<\/a>, down 33% from Thunder\/Lakers last year (4.9) and down 20% from Bulls\/Heat in 2012 (4.1). The early Spurs\/Heat game drew a 2.7 overnight, down 29% from Heat\/Celtics last year (3.8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite the new fantasy-football-style format, the NFL Pro Bowl saw a drop in viewership \u2013 garnering 11.7 million viewers on NBC Sunday compared to 12.2 million in 2013. Nonetheless, SI.com […]\n More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.sportsvideo.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}