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[03/06/12 - 10:15 AM] Heat vs. Lakers: ABC's Largest Audience for Non-Christmas Regular Season NBA Game ESPN spins the numbers for Sunday, March 4. |
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[via press release from ESPN] |
Heat vs. Lakers: ABC's Largest Audience for Non-Christmas Regular Season NBA Game
ABC's broadcast of the Miami Heat vs. the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, March 4, was the network's most-viewed non-Christmas Day regular season NBA game ever. The broadcast averaged 7,037,000 viewers (P2+), according to Nielsen. The audience is based on a 4.3 rating, which matches ABC's highest-rated non-Christmas Day regular season NBA game ever (Boston vs. L.A. Lakers - Jan. 30, 2011).
The audience for Sunday's game was up 37% over the 5,120,000 viewers - based on a 3.2 rating - for last season's comparable game (L.A. Lakers vs. San Antonio Spurs). In addition, the game posted a 13.9 rating in Miami - the market's second highest regular season NBA game on ABC - and a 9.6 rating in Los Angeles.
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[07/11/25 - 12:45 PM] ABC Concludes September to May Season with Top Five Shows Among Adults 18-49 Including "High Potential," "Abbott Elementary," "The Rookie," "Shifting Gears" and "9-1-1" Continuing to lead among broadcast series, ABC's "High Potential" stood as the No. 1 new drama among Total Viewers (16.41 million) and No. 1 new show among Adults 18-49 (3.85 rating).
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[07/11/25 - 11:28 AM] "Big Brother: Summer of Mystery" Premiere Up +10% from Last Summer Last night, season 27 premiered to nearly 3 million viewers.
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[07/09/25 - 03:03 PM] ABC News' "Nightline" Ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49 vs. CBS' "After Midnight" and NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" "Nightline" saw gains on the same week last year in Total Viewers (+3% - 663,000 vs. 644,000) and Adults 18-49 (+4% - 96,000 vs. 92,000).
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[07/08/25 - 06:05 PM] ESPN Formula 1 Coverage Enjoying Record-Breaking Season of Viewership 11 of 12 races held so far this season have had year-over-year viewership growth and seven of the 12 have set event viewership records.
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[07/08/25 - 12:01 PM] Netflix Top 10 Week of June 30: "Squid Game" Season 3 Leads Top 10 Globally, Climbs to No. 3 on Most Popular Plus: "The Waterfront" maintained its Top 10 empire as the No. 1 English show in its third week with 5.6 million views.
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[07/08/25 - 06:30 AM] New AMC/AMC+ Epic Adventure Drama "Nautilus" Surfaces with 2.6 Million Premiere Night Viewers on Linear TV The highly anticipated series premiered on Sunday, June 29 on AMC and AMC+, with new episodes premiering weekly on Sundays until the thrilling two-episode season finale on August 17.
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[07/03/25 - 02:33 PM] ABC News Same-Day Primetime Special "Verdict: The Diddy Trial" Is No. 1 in Adults 18-49 and Adults 25-54 Versus the competition in the time period, "Verdict: The Diddy Trial" outperformed NBC by +40% in Adults 18-49 (212,000 vs. 151,000) and +22% in Adults 25-54.
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[07/02/25 - 06:44 PM] Tyler Perry's "Divorced Sistas" Quickly Rises to Become BET+'s Most Watched Original Series in Platform History Just halfway through the eight-episode season, existing subscribers and new fans of the show have boosted the drama series to the most-watched series premiere on BET+ in just three weeks.
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[07/02/25 - 02:38 PM] Hallmark Channel Earns #1 Most-Watched Network on Weekends Throughout June with "Passport to Love" Programming Event "Passport to Love" helped elevate Hallmark Channel to be the #1 most-watched network on weekends throughout the month of June.
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[07/01/25 - 12:01 PM] Top 10 Week of June 23: "Squid Game" Season 3 Takes Over with Record-Breaking Global Debut at No. 1 "The Waterfront" was a Top 10 hit once more as the No. 1 series on the English TV list (11.6 million views).
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[07/01/25 - 10:26 AM] ESPN Formula 1 Viewership Notes After Austrian Grand Prix ESPN's live telecast on Sunday, June 29, averaged 1.1 million viewers, a two percent gain over last year's race and the largest audience ever for the event on U.S. television.
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[07/01/25 - 09:16 AM] ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" Featuring the Minnesota Twins vs. Detroit Tigers Averaged 2 Million Viewers - Up 66% from Last Year's Comparable Game The audience peaked with 2,304,000 viewers in the 9:15 p.m. ET quarter hour.
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[06/27/25 - 02:29 PM] "Live with Kelly and Mark" Gears Up for Summer Rising Week to Week in All Key Measures Wednesday, June 11, was the most-viewed day of the week among Total Viewers (2.164 million).
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[06/27/25 - 10:31 AM] "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Tops Late-Night in Adults 18-49 for Third Week in a Row Winning three of five nights in Kimmel's final week before summer guest hosts, Thursday, June 19, was the show's strongest night among Adults 18-49 (0.35 rating).
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[06/25/25 - 11:55 AM] Prime Video Finishes Groundbreaking First Season of Exclusive NASCAR Coverage According to Nielsen, NASCAR on Prime posted a season average of 2.16 million viewers (AMA P2+) across five events, and attracted droves of younger viewers to its live coverage.
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