This year’s Indianapolis 500 attracted an average of 4.92 million viewers during the afternoon broadcast by NBC and Peacock.
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Women’s basketball seems to have found a winner with its new Sweet 16 format in March Madness, and the timing couldn’t be better with looming TV contract negotiations on the horizon.
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Ratings were up for this year’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament and advertising sold out early, leaving the Indianapolis-based NCAA big decisions to make involving future TV rights for the tourney.
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TV ratings were down nearly 14% from the last NCAA men’s basketball title game, between Virginia and Texas Tech in 2019.
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Ohio State University’s 34-23 victory over the University of Notre Dame in Monday night’s CFP championship game in Atlanta was the most-watched game of the season. However, it saw a double-digit drop in viewers from last year’s title match.
The first month of the WNBA season drew its highest attendance since the league’s second season in 1998 and the best television ratings in its history, the WNBA announced Tuesday.
The Indiana Fever’s season-opening road game Tuesday night against the Connecticut Sun—featuring the debut of Caitlin Clark—was the most-watched WNBA game since 2001.
The University of Iowa’s victory over Louisiana State University was the most-watched men’s or women’s college basketball game ever on ESPN, more than doubling the prior largest audience.
Overall, the tournament is averaging 9.07 million viewers on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. That is a slight increase over the 9.05 million average at this point last year.
The dip was not unexpected with “Thursday Night Football” moving from Fox and NFL Network to exclusively airing on Amazon Prime Video.
Neither company is saying the other is wrong, but neither is backing down, either. The result is confusion, most notably for advertisers.
The considerable star power of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Kansas City Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes was not enough to attract the kind of audience the NFL has enjoyed for its championship game over the past dozen years.
The broadcast of Sunday’s race delivered a huge rating in Indianapolis, but overall viewership was likely hurt by a tougher a slate of competition from other sports, including NASCAR.
The very thing that is driving the increase—the coronavirus outbreak—is also preventing stations from cashing in on those ratings increases.
While TV news has seen audience declines across many age categories, the biggest losses are with younger viewers.
Boosted by the fifth-highest winning record in the 30-team NBA, the team has seen home attendance rise 4.6 percent and TV ratings climb 6 percent, compared with this time last year.
The frenzy of deal-making inevitably leads to speculation about the future of WTHR-TV Channel 13—which, incredibly, has been under the ownership of the same family—the Wolfes of Columbus, Ohio—since 1975.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said he stands by his agency’s decision to send Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.’s acquisition of Tribune Media Co. to an administration hearing.
The 30 percent drop is likely due to a combination of a relatively non-competitive game and its airing on a cable network instead of CBS, which showed last year’s game.
Former WISH-TV reporter and anchor Patty Spitler has retired “Boomer TV” in favor of a new program with broader appeal.
More and more viewers are plowing through a streaming network series’ full season in less than 24 hours after the release of those episodes.
A Scripps official flew in Monday to inform the WRTV staff of Larry Blackerby’s firing and his interim replacement.
The station continues to revamp its morning newscasts, which have struggled in the ratings. Three of its morning personalities have been replaced in the last three months.
While the NFL’s TV ratings as a whole this season are getting sacked for a sizable loss, the Indianapolis Colts have escaped the big hit.
