Nba Championship 2020 Ratings

This could have been a time when the league and any other televised sports league enjoyed mammoth.

Nba championship 2020 ratings. The 2020 nba finals have suffered their worst tv ratings since pretty much forever. The 1987 nba finals between the los angeles lakers and boston celtics was the highest rated and most watched nba finals series on cbs averaging a 15 9 rating 32 share and 24 12 million viewers. The lowest rated and least watched nba finals game was game 3 of the 2020 nba finals which averaged a 3 1 rating and 5 94 million viewers.

The 2020 nba finals have seen an enormous drop in ratings compared with last year and the league s vocal support of social justice issues has been suggested as one of the factors behind it. According to data from nielsen media research 5 6 million viewers the figure is preliminary and will be confirmed later this week tuned into game 6 of the finals to watch the lakers clinch a. The audience of the 2020 nba playoffs is made up of 45 white viewers and 55 non white viewers.

Although the ratings for the 2020 nba playoffs were down 37 compared to last year both the nhl playoffs 38 and the mlb playoffs 40 have experienced more significant rating declines. Despite the presence of lebron james and the los angeles lakers the nba s marquee player and franchise the league. That compares to a 46 54 respective mix for last year s nba playoffs.

Some thought that a finals series. Comcast corp s msnbc during the first five nights of the nba finals was up 78 to 8 7 million according to nielsen data. The nba finals ratings are facing all time lows.