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[05/30/13 - 10:37 AM] WNBA Season Off to Strong Ratings Start; Most-Watched Regular-Season Game on ESPN2 in Nine Years ESPN spins the numbers for Monday, May 27. |
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WNBA Season Off to Strong Ratings Start; Most-Watched Regular-Season Game on ESPN2 in Nine Years
The new WNBA season-opening Memorial Day doubleheader on ESPN2 - Washington Mystics at Tulsa Shock, followed by Chicago Sky at the Phoenix Mercury - averaged a 0.3 household coverage rating and an average of 366,000 viewers (P2+), including the most-viewed regular-season game on ESPN2 in nine years. The doubleheader showcased the top four teams from the 2013 WNBA Draft presented by State Farm - which included the "3 to See" trio of Elena Delle Donne (Delaware to Chicago), Skylar Diggins (Notre Dame to Tulsa) and Brittney Griner (Baylor to Phoenix). On TV and online (ESPN.com, espnW.com), ESPN will take an in-depth, season-long look at their transition from college to the WNBA.
The Washington at Tulsa 3 p.m. ET telecast earned a 0.3 rating (314,000 viewers), while at 5 p.m. Chicago at Phoenix produced a 0.4 rating (455,000 viewers). The later game is the most-viewed WNBA game on ESPN2 since Phoenix at New York on July 11, 2004 (487,000, based on a 0.5 rating)..
The 2012 WNBA regular season on ESPN2 averaged a 0.2 household coverage rating.
The WNBA returns on Saturday, June 8, at 3:30 p.m. with the first game of the year ABC, the Phoenix Mercury with Griner and Diana Taurasi at the defending champion Indiana Fever.
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[11/06/25 - 02:15 PM] ABC News' "Nightline" Ranks No. 1 in Total Viewers and Adults 25-54 "Nightline" was up on the previous week by double digits in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49.
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[11/05/25 - 09:39 AM] "College GameDay" and ESPN College Football on ABC Win Week 10 Georgia-Florida led the week with 7.8 million viewers, marking the largest audience on record for this rivalry in a full national window.
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[11/05/25 - 08:00 AM] The NASCAR Xfinity Series Concludes First Full Year on The Cw Network with Most-Watched Season in Four Years The championship race, which saw Jesse Love emerge as the season winner, drew 1,015,000 total viewers and peaked at 1,191,000 total viewers from 9:30-9:45pm ET.
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[11/04/25 - 04:19 PM] FOX Scores 7.19 Million Viewers for Penn State-Ohio State Plus, Texas Tech's win over K-State earned 3,131,000 viewers on FOX - up +42% over last year's average of Big 12 games on the network.
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[11/04/25 - 03:38 PM] FOX Sports Wraps Unforgettable Postseason as Epic World Series Game 7 Delivers 27.3 Million Viewers On FOX, the 11-inning Fall Classic conclusion peaked at 33,064,000 viewers from 11:45 PM-12:00 AM ET.
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[11/03/25 - 11:00 AM] CBS Premiere Week Leads Live+7 Multiplatform Viewership with Television's #1 Show "Tracker" and Four of the Top Five Series The network claimed 10 of the top 20 series, twice as many top 20 shows as the competition.
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[11/03/25 - 05:11 AM] 25,984,000 Viewers Tuned in for the Dodgers Back-to-Back, Dramatic Clinch of the Fall Classic Across FOX, FOX Deportes and FOX Sports Streaming Services - The Most Since 2017 On FOX, World Series Game 7 peaked with 31,543,000 viewers from 11:30-11:45 PM ET.
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[10/31/25 - 02:22 PM] FOX Sports Hits 14.6 Million Viewers for Game 5 of the World Series The telecast reached a peak viewership of 16,034,000 viewers on FOX between 10:00-10:15 PM ET.
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[10/31/25 - 10:42 AM] "Dancing with the Stars" Scares Up More Wins - Rising for Historic Sixth Week in a Row "Dancing with the Stars" is the only fall show to increase its overall audience for six consecutive weeks following its season premiere.
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[10/31/25 - 06:31 AM] ESPN Networks Deliver Record College Football Viewership at the Midway Point of the Season, "College GameDay" Continues on Historic Run Through nine weeks, ESPN networks are averaging 2.3 million viewers per game, their largest audience since 2009 and an increase of 20 percent year-over-year.
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[10/30/25 - 03:05 PM] 14.8 Million Viewers Tuned in for World Series Game 4 Across FOX, FOX Deportes & FOX Sports Streaming Services Viewership peaked at 16,695,000 viewers on FOX between 10:00-10:15 PM ET.
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[10/30/25 - 03:01 PM] Debut of NBC Sports' "Coast 2 Coast Tuesday" Delivers NBA's Largest Pre-Christmas Tuesday Audience Since 1996 "Coast 2 Coast Tuesday" - featuring the New York Knicks at Milwaukee Bucks (8 p.m. ET) and LA Clippers at Golden State Warriors (11 p.m. ET) - averaged 3.0 million viewers in primetime across NBC and Peacock.
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[10/28/25 - 02:07 PM] "Sunday Night Football" on Record Pace Through Week 8, Averaging 24.7 Million Viewers on NBC and Peacock Packers-Steelers audience peaked at 28.2 million viewers on NBC and Peacock in the second quarter (9:15-9:30 p.m. ET).
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[10/28/25 - 12:01 PM] Netflix Top 10: Week of October 20 - "A House of Dynamite" Hits the Target at No. 1 in This Week's Top 10 Plus: "Nobody Wants This," "The Elixir," and "The Monster of Florence" rise to the top in their opening weekends.
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[10/27/25 - 12:03 PM] Second-Most Viewed NBA Opening Week on ESPN Since 2014; "Inside the NBA" Averaged 1M Viewers in Its Opening Week Debut on ESPN Last week's NBA coverage averaged 2.2 million viewers.
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