TV Ratings: Strong Numbers for Toronto Raptors' NBA Title Clincher

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...rong-tv-ratings-thursday-june-13-2019-1218363

Game 6 of the series nearly matches the series-high preliminary ratings for Monday's fifth contest.
The Toronto Raptors' first-ever NBA championship gave ABC strong ratings Thursday night, ending the six-game series with a second straight big showing.

After a soft first four games in the ratings — owing in part to having one of the teams involved outside the United States and therefore not measured by Nielsen — the audience spiked for Game 5 on Monday. Thursday's broadcast nearly matched it, drawing a 13.2 household rating in metered markets (vs. 13.4 for Game 5).

In the final ratings, Game 6 came in at 18.34 million viewers, slightly ahead of Monday's 18.22 million viewers.

Thursday's game will likely come in below the last four times the NBA Finals had a sixth game (2016, 2015, 2013 and 2011), all of which drew better than 20 million viewers.

Here are the ratings for the Raptors vs Warriors game.

 

[KML0224]

Who aired the Finals in Canada? I'm certain that CBC aired the Stanley Cup.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/06...-canadian-tv-record-for-game-4-of-nba-finals/

Here is the Canadian Ratings for the NBA Finals

Television numbers in Canada continue to hit record levels during the Toronto Raptors’ NBA Finals run.

TSN announced Monday that it set a new Canadian record for an NBA game with an average audience of 4.631 million for the Raptors’ Game 4 Finals win over the Golden State Warriors on Friday night. The numbers includes viewers on TSN, CTV2 and the French language broadcast on RDS, but does not include people watching the American feed.

TSN also said the Game 4 broadcast was the highest-ranked sports broadcast of the calendar year, surpassing the Super Bowl.

TSN, CTV2 and RDS combined for an average audience of 4.3 million in Game 2 of the Finals on June 2.

Sportsnet reported it had a then-record audience of 3.3 million viewers for Game 1 of the Finals, but that number does not include a French language broadcast.

Sportsnet and TSN, whose parent companies are co-majority owners of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (which owns the Raptors), split the NBA team’s broadcast schedule.

TSN said Game 4 reached 10.294 million Canadians with a peak audience of 6.493 million in the game’s final minute.

 

[Syfy]

Who aired the Finals in Canada? I'm certain that CBC aired the Stanley Cup.

Pretty sure Toronto Sports Network [TSN] aired them.

 

[Mr Tony]

Pretty sure Toronto Sports Network [TSN] aired them.

while some folks in Canada call it that, the actual channel name is The Sports Network

 

[Prescott Joe]

I'd be willing to bet that more people in the so called "Golden Horseshoe" watched
the game via the network affiliate in Buffalo, NY than all the Canadian Networks
combined. All one need do is look at the large antenna arrays and towers all
pointed at the stations serving Buffalo, NY.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

I'd be willing to bet that more people in the so called "Golden Horseshoe" watched
the game via the network affiliate in Buffalo, NY than all the Canadian Networks
combined. All one need do is look at the large antenna arrays and towers all
pointed at the stations serving Buffalo, NY.

while some folks in Canada call it that, the actual channel name is The Sports Network

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/06...-canadian-tv-record-for-game-4-of-nba-finals/

Here is the Canadian Ratings for the NBA Finals

WKBW-TV Buffalo? I know the Niagara Falls portion would get WKBW though given its location.

 

[Prescott Joe]

WKBW-TV Buffalo? I know the Niagara Falls portion would get WKBW though given its location.

The game was aired on WKBW, the ABC affiliate in Buffalo, NY. The vast majority of the Buffalo stations are available to beyond Hamilton,
Ontario, then from Toronto through Oshawa, Ontario up to about 10 miles inland. Places like Guelph and Mississauga have very weak
signals from Buffalo, NY.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/236067/final-2-nba-games-help-abc-in-ratings/

Here is more on the NBA Finals ratings

NEW YORK (AP) — The two top winter sports crowned their champions as summer neared, separated by exactly 10 million viewers.

The sixth game of the NBA Finals, where the Toronto Raptors dethroned the depleted Golden State Warriors, was seen by 18.76 million viewers in the United States, according to the Nielsen company. The final two games buoyed ABC, which had been suffering in the ratings with the series between a Canadian opponent and a team competing in its fifth consecutive finals.




The seventh game of the NHL Stanley Cup Finals, won by the St. Louis Blues over the Boston Bruins, was seen by 8.76 million viewers, Nielsen said.

The NBA Finals, plus a few game shows, helped ABC to the week’s ratings championship.