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The Draft beats ESPN’s largest WNBA audience for a game by over 1M viewers (Phoenix vs. Connecticut on 5/22/2004, 1.43M viewers on ABC).
The Draft beats ESPN’s largest WNBA audience for a game by over 1M viewers (Phoenix vs. Connecticut on 5/22/2004, 1.43M viewers on ABC).
Real-time reaction of my team (ESPN Research) trying to come up with WNBA ratings projections after seeing those draft numbers 🤣🤣🤣
Dodgers/Padres have always been a solid ratings driver, topping at 1.7M in 2021, but hitting close to 2M on Sunday Night Baseball is notable Nice early-season endorsement of the Ohtani/Dodgers combo for ratings
Dodgers/Padres have always been a solid ratings driver, topping at 1.7M in 2021, but hitting close to 2M on Sunday Night Baseball is notable Nice early-season endorsement of the Ohtani/Dodgers combo for ratings
The SPEED of growth for women's college basketball is just mind-boggling. Think about this... The 1-hour pregame show before the National Championship drew 2.9M viewers. Only one WCBB game drew more viewers than 2.9M viewers just three years ago.
Yall the ratings. The ratings. I’m blown. What a testament to the WBB community who worked so hard and also for these young athletes who put on a SHOW on the biggest stage we’ve ever seen. I am in AWE of them. more importantly I’m desperate for the WNBA season to begin! 👀👀👀
18.7M for Women's National Championship Game No words
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Thanks for having me. It was a fun conversation on the fan, data and understanding what it all means in this fast changing media environment My team is one of the best in the business in all things sports, research, measurement and data
Also, I know we focus on the Caitlin Clark games, but the non-Iowa Elite Eight and Final Four games have had really strong viewership, too.
Also, I know we focus on the Caitlin Clark games, but the non-Iowa Elite Eight and Final Four games have had really strong viewership, too.
To put this in perspective. This game tops... • Every World Series game last year. • Every NBA Finals game last year. • Every Daytona 500 since 2013. • Every Masters final round viewership since 2013. • All but five CFB games in 2023.
To put this in perspective. This game tops... • Every World Series game last year. • Every NBA Finals game last year. • Every Daytona 500 since 2013. • Every Masters final round viewership since 2013. • All but five CFB games in 2023.
The 2024 #WFinalFour are the most-viewed #NCAAWBB Semifinals ON RECORD! 📈 10.8M avg. viewers, up 138% year-over-year #MarchMadness
As we head into the Final Four, the Women's NCAA Tournament is pacing +127% over last year Female viewership at +133% is notably pacing ahead of overall increases
And, the peak for the UConn women’s game was 10.4M in the first 13 minutes!!!!
And, the peak for the UConn women’s game was 10.4M in the first 13 minutes!!!!
We just witnessed history. Iowa/ LSU hit 12.3 Million viewers To put that into context, it ranks above all but 1 Men’s NCAA Tournament game, all but 1 NBA Finals game and every World Series games in the most recent postseasons
We just witnessed history. Iowa/ LSU hit 12.3 Million viewers To put that into context, it ranks above all but 1 Men’s NCAA Tournament game, all but 1 NBA Finals game and every World Series games in the most recent postseasons
At 6.9M, Saturday's Iowa/Colorado game is the second highest-rated game in 29 years, only behind last year's National Championship game. Can't wait to see what last night did
At 6.9M, Saturday's Iowa/Colorado game is the second highest-rated game in 29 years, only behind last year's National Championship game. Can't wait to see what last night did
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How this for a stunning stat? Not only did the Women's Championship Outdraw the Men's for the first time, but the 18.9M for Caitlin Clark's Iowa vs. SC outdrew every Men's championship except one for the past five years.
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@ESPNFlora Which is great! Women’s basketball has really picked up speed because of all these girls playing well!
Per @paulsen_smw: @GamecockWBB-@LSUwbkb averaged 1.56 million viewers on ESPN, trailing only Iowa-Ohio State (which drew 1.86 million viewers on NBC) as the most-watched regular season women’s college basketball game since 2010.
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In the case of the LCS, reach per game was actually down a little vs 2022. Average minutes viewed was *also* down a little. But average duration of the games was down by 23 minutes per game. So the denominator in that simple equation was down by -10%.
The building blocks of every viewership figure are reach - or the number of people watching any portion of the program - minutes viewed and duration of the show. The math is really simple. Reach x minutes viewed / length of the show.
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@ESPNFlora Thanks Flora! Grateful for colleagues like you!
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The answer in both cases is 6%.
Guessing game that will be of interest to some: According to Nielsen data, what % of Chiefs-Jets SNF viewers had not watched *any* NFL football in Weeks 1-3? Similarly, what % of Fox 4:25 viewers (most markets seeing NE-DAL) had not watched any NFL in Weeks 1-3?
@SportsTVRatings This is why we can't have nice (ratings story) things.