Live coverage of the 2017 NBA Finals begins with Game 1 on Thursday, June 1 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC, featuring the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. For the first time in NBA history, the same two teams will meet in The Finals for three consecutive years. Golden State had won the […]
THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017 ABC 8:00 p.m. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” 8:30 p.m. “NBA Countdown” 9:00 p.m. “NBA Finals” (Game 1) CBS 8:00 p.m. “The Big Bang Theory” ((R) 8:30 p.m. “Superior Donuts” (R) 9:00 p.m. “Mom” (R) 9:30 p.m. “Life in Pieces” (R) 10:00 p.m. “The Amazing Race” (season finale) NBC 8:00 p.m. “Chicago Fire” […]
Sunday night’s NBA Finals Game 7 on ABC was the most-watched, highest-rated NBA game since Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals (which had aired on NBC), according to Nielsen. ABC’s Game 7 viewership peaked with 44.511 million viewers and a 22.5 U.S. rating from 10:30-10:40 p.m. ET. The 2016 NBA Finals on ABC, in […]
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ victory on game seven of the NBA Finals on Sunday scored a mammoth 30.8 million viewers from 8-10:40 p.m. ET, according to the True Fast Nationals. Comparably, this stands as television’s most-watched telecast overall since the “2016 Academy Awards” (on Feb. 28, 2016) and the top-rated among adults 18-49 (11.2 rating) since […]
SUNDAY, JUNE 19, 2016 Game 7 of The NBA Finals: 18.8/32 overall (Year-Ago Final Game: 15.9/27 on June 16, 2015) Household Rating/Share ABC: 15.0/27, Fox: 3.0/ 5, CBS: 2.8/ 5, NBC: 1.5/ 3 Percent Change From the Comparable Year-Ago Period: CBS: +89 percent, NBC: +48, Fox: -20, ABC: -73 —– 7:00 p.m. ABC – Jimmy […]
“NBA Finals Game 6” on ABC won the night across all of television for the 54th consecutive time. Thursday night’s Game 6 – the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors to even the series 3-3 – generated 20.702 million average viewers, peaking with 25.254 million viewers from 11:30-11:45 p.m. ET. The Cleveland market averaged […]
What follows are the metered market (overnight) results in households by network and by half-hour for Thursday, June 16: Household Rating/Share ABC: 10.8/19, CBS: 3.2/ 5, NBC: 2.5/ 4, Fox: 2.1/ 3, CW: 0.6/ 1 Percent Change From the Year-Ago Evening: ABC: +209, CW: no change, NBC: – 7, CBS: – 9, Fox: -12 8:00 […]
THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 2016 ABC 8:00 p.m. “Jimmy Kimmel Live” 8:30 p.m. “NBA Countdown” 9:00 p.m. “NBA Finals”: Golden State Warriers at Cleveland Cavaliers CBS 8:00 p.m. “The Big Bang Theory” (R) 8:30 p.m. “Life in Pieces” (R) 9:00 p.m. “Mom” (R) 9:30 p.m. “The Odd Couple” (R) 10:00 p.m. “Code Black” (R) NBC 8:00 […]
The NBA Finals Game 6 broadcast on ABC on Thursday, June 16 will feature a new but familiar face to basketball fans: TNT NBA sideline reporter Craig Sager. Sager, known for his wildly colorful suits, has never worked the sidelines for an NBA finals because TNT was never the series’ outlet. Rich Sandomir of The […]
