Not only did it break records for 2019, but overall! Subscribe to your choice of industry specific newsletters, save $100 on conferences, search member directories, comment on stories and more. The 2019 NBA Finals were a different story, as it boasted an average rating of only 8.8 reaching only 15.14 million viewers. - Arash Madani (@ArashMadani) June 11, 2019. Those figures represent a 66 percent drop. A year ago, during the four-game sweep by the Warriors, Game Two earned 18.5 million. ... was 3.3 million viewers and peaked in the final minutes of the game with 4.1 million Canadians tuning in to see the finish. However, those numbers don’t take into account Canadian viewership, as one of the competitors in the 2019 NBA Finals were Canada’s Toronto Raptors. That game brought in 8.1 million viewers. NBA.com Staff June 3, 2019 6:36 PM. Overall, this year’s event was the TV Ratings: NBA Finals Game 3 Stays Low. NBA executives foresaw a supposedly sports-starved population turning to the Association for desperately needed entertainment relief. This drop in the number of NBA finals viewers is interesting. The 2019 NBA Finals was the championship series of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 2018–19 season and conclusion of the season's playoffs.In the best-of-seven playoff series held from May 30 through June 13, 2019, the Eastern Conference champion Toronto Raptors defeated the defending NBA champion and Western Conference champion Golden State Warriors, 4–2, earning the … If you thought games one and two of the NBA Finals were bad for TV ratings, Game Three fell even farther, hitting a 12-year low according to the numbers. Instead, it has been a Finals the NBA would love to forget. Despite missing the playoffs, the Lakers played in 13 of the 30 most-watched games this season, more than any other team. Upwards of 10 million unique viewers watched the Game 2 clash between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors. The NHL has stayed steady, and is up 1%. It is also the lowest number of average viewers of any Finals in the last two decades. As the Canadian franchise continues to make history with this deep postseason run, each of the three previous games have broken broadcasting viewership records. The six-game series -- where the Raptors dethroned the And unlike this season, neither 2019 series had LeBron. If you're already a paid subscriber, please sign-in. The basketball league had been hoping for a boost this year as the games returned to screens. Nielsen TV ratings June 6, 2019, 8:33 AM. 2019 NBA Finals: Toronto Raptors vs. Golden State Warriors Ratings for Game 2 of The Finals dips a bit from Game 1. Deadline reported game one of the 2019 finals had 13.3 million viewers, which at the time was considered down. Game 1 of the Finals brought with it the lowest viewership since 1994, and Game 2 was the lowest ever on record. Check to receive email when comments are posted. Creative Media Awards (February 5, 2021, NYC), Agency of the Year (January 1, 2021, Online Announcement), MediaPost All Stars (January 1, 2021, Online Announcement), Marketing Automotive Awards (August 11, 2020, Online), Digital Out of Home Awards (October 15, 2019, NYC), National CineMedia Revs Sink 80% For 2020, CBS' Oprah Interview Strikes Gold: Meghan And Harry Special Draws 17.1M Viewers, AVOD Platforms Forecast To Grow To $18 Billion By 2025, Fox Corp. Won't Take On Big Media's SVOD Platforms, Looks To AVOD, Comscore Narrows 2020 Losses, Readies Investor Deals, The Fundamentals Of Upfront Planning for CTV, Keep up-to-date with media, marketing and advertising news, Invitations to exclusive industry events and research.

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