Wednesday Final Nationals: Warriors-Cavaliers on ABC Posts 19-Year High in NBA Finals Game 3 Total Viewership

ABC was the clear Wednesday night winner in all key figures. In prime time, the network averaged 14.13 million viewers, with a 4.9 rating/21 share in adults 18-49 and a 5.3 rating/18 share in adults 25-54.

Game 3 was a competitive contest between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the again-victorious Golden State Warriors in the “2017 NBA Finals”. It saw increases of +21 percent from last year’s Golden State-Cleveland Game 3 (16.47 million viewers from June 8, 2016), +7 percent from the Golden State-Cleveland Game 3 of two years ago (18.77 million viewers from June 9, 2015) and +35 percent from San Antonio-Miami in 2014 (14.8 million viewers from June 10, 2014).

Warriors-Cavaliers Game 3 this year registered the largest TV-only viewership for a third Finals game since L.A. Lakers-Philadelphia on NBC in 2001 (20.3 million viewers). When factoring streaming — ESPN reported an additional 440,700 viewers tuned in — Game 3 reached a 19-year best (since Utah-Chicago on NBC June 7, 1998: 25.7 million viewers).

The broadcast drew a 35.3 in the Cleveland market and a 32.7 in the San Francisco-Oakland market. The rest of the top 10 local markets include: Columbus (20.6); Memphis (19.4); Atlanta (18.6); Miami (17.8); Sacramento (17.1); Richmond (16.3); Charlotte (15.1); Birmingham (14.8).

Through the first 3 games of the NBA Finals, ratings on ABC are up 10 percent in total viewers (19.5 million), +8 percent in the 18-49 demo (7.1) and +5 percent in households (10.7).

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* AFF = Number of affiliates (stations) airing the program
* CVG = percent of coverage in U.S.
	Wednesday, June 7, 2017
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			8.1/15	14130		4.9/21	5.3/18
8:00	Jimmy Kimmel: Game Night (s)	251	92	2.6/5	4071	0.9/6	1.1/6	1.3/5
8:31	NBA Countdown (s)	249	92	3.5/7	5488	1.4/9	1.7/8	2.0/7
8:59	2017 NBA Finals Game 3: Golden State @ Cleveland (s) (thru 11:53)	251	93	11.3/21	20048	6.7/33	7.2/28	7.7/25
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			3.1/6	4689	0.3/2	0.6/2.5	0.9/3
8:00	NCIS: New Orleans (rs)	253	93	3.4/7	5131	0.3/2	0.6/3	0.9/3
9:00	Criminal Minds (r)	253	93	3.2/6	4734	0.3/2	0.7/3	1.0/3
10:00	Code Black (r)	253	93	2.8/5	4204	0.2/1	0.6/2	0.9/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			2.6/5	3957	0.4/2	0.7/3	1.0/3
8:00	Little Big Shots	245	92	4.4/8	7035	0.6/3	1.1/5	1.6/6
9:00	The Carmichael Show	245	92	2.4/4	3726	0.4/2	0.8/3	1.0/3
9:30	Superstore (r)	245	92	1.5/3	2231	0.2/1	0.5/2	0.7/2
10:00	This Is Us (r)	244	93	1.3/3	1859	0.2/1	0.4/1	0.5/2
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			1.7/3	2779	0.5/3	0.8/3	1.0/3.5
8:00	MasterChef	258	93	2.0/4	3190	0.5/3	0.9/4	1.2/4
9:00	The F Word with Gordon Ramsay	258	93	1.4/3	2367	0.5/2	0.7/3	0.9/3
	PROGRAM	AFF*	CVG* (PCT)	HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-10	Network Average			0.4/1	668	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	Arrow (r)	246	83	0.4/1	675	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
9:00	D.C.’s Legends of Tomorrow (r)	246	83	0.4/1	661	0.1/1	0.2/1	0.3/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			1.0/2	1599		0.6/2
7:00	La Rosa de Guadalupe			0.9/2	1749		0.6/3
8:00	La Reina de la Cancion			1.0/2	1530		0.6/2
9:00	La Doble Vida de Estela Carrillo			1.0/2	1643		0.6/2
10:03	La Piloto			0.9/2	1624		0.6/2
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average			0.4/1	764		0.3/1
7:00	Moisés y Los Diez Mandamientos (r)			0.4/1	627		0.2/1
7:57	Moisés y Los Diez Mandamientos			0.7/1	1260		0.4/2
9:00	La Candidata			0.3/1	583		0.2/1
9:59	El Bienamado			0.2/0	433		0.2/1
	PROGRAM			HH/Share	Viewers (000)	Adults 18-34	Adults 18-49	Adults 25-54
8-11	Network Average (preliminary)			0.5/1	910	0.2/1	0.3/1
8:00	El Capo (preliminary)			0.6/1	918	0.2/1	0.3/-
9:00	La Querida del Centauro (preliminary)			0.5/1	924	0.2/1	0.4/1
10:00	La Querida del Centauro (preliminary)			0.5/1	888	0.2/1	0.3/1

Note: All of this date’s Telemundo data are based on preliminary figures.

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Cable Rankings – Wednesday 6/07/17
What follows are the top 100 most-watched shows in prime time on cable (by order of network) for Wednesday, June 7:

Source: Live+Same Day data, Nielsen Media Research