Nba Finals Ratings Compared To Last Year

The drop in viewers was 43.

Nba finals ratings compared to last year. This compares to 18 22 million viewers last year. The number is down 45 percent from last year s game 1 between the golden state warriors and toronto raptors. A trend of low ratings throughout the nba postseason has now reached the nba finals.

That 7 6 million viewer slide is almost identical to the. Sitting down with rachel nichols. About 76 2 million people were watching tv on the first five nights of the nba finals this year a 9 decline from the same games in 2019.

Game 5 of the nba finals continued a pattern of extremely low ratings compared to previous years. Trump bashes nba finals ratings which hit historic lows in 2020. Through the first three games the nba finals averaged 6 71 million viewers.

This is a list of television ratings for nba finals in the united states based on nielsen viewing data. Nba viewership remains down compared to last year heading into all star weekend the news isn t all bad though. Ratings for the last game of the nba finals dipped by nearly 70 compared to last year.

At its peak 6 028 million viewers tuned in to watch game 6 of the finals on sunday evening which is a 66. In 2016 almost 10 million more people watched game 7 of the world series cubs ending the curse than they did game 7 of the nba finals where lbj came back from a 3 1 deficit to beat the warriors. Last year more people watched game 7 of the world series than they did any game of the nba finals.

First three games of the nba finals fell from 12 6 last year to 10 1 this year. Drop in audience compared to 12 months ago. The highest rated and most watched nba finals series was the 1998 nba finals between the chicago bulls and utah jazz which averaged an 18 7 rating 33 share and 29 04 million viewers on nbc that series also featured the highest rated and most watched nba finals game as the sunday night.