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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 3524486, member: 3723"] posted this in the thread on the FB board but its good info for here too: NBA regular season ratings in 2018-19 averaged 1.99mm viewers across ESPN and ABC [URL='https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/04/nba-regular-season-viewership-mixed/']per SMW[/URL] Can't find regular season ratings but the World Series averaged 13.91mm viewers last year which is less than watched the Alabama v Michigan Citrus Bowl. NHL ratings are a joke comparatively but it's hard to find consolidated regular season averages. Per SMW NBCSN looks like it averages 200k-600k viewers for their primetime regular season hockey games. The Stanley Cup finals [URL='https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/06/stanley-cup-ratings-increase-blues-bruins-nbc/']averaged 5.3mm viewers last year[/URL] Last year's CFB had [URL='https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college-football-tv-ratings/']27 games[/URL] at or above 1.99mm viewers in the bowl season alone, and 36 above $1mm. If the average NHL game averaged 600k viewers (and that appears to be generous), it would've been the least watched bowl game in 2019-20. For comparison's sake to CFB, 600k is less than the amount of people that watched Indiana v Purdue on ESPN2 on the Saturday after Thanksgiving directly opposite of Michigan/Ohio State on Fox. UConn v Navy in an awful game on ESPN November 1 last year averaged 742k viewers The largest watched CBB broadcast of the 2019-20 regular season was [URL='https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/03/college-basketball-ratings-end-season-cbs-fox-espn-btn/']UNC v Duke on Feb 8 with 2.67mm viewers[/URL]. For comparisons sake to CFB in 2019-20, there were 106 college football games at or above 2.67mm in viewership. So yeah, its pretty safe to say CFB programming would push CBB behind some sort of streaming platform. [/QUOTE]

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