That was the NHL. The NHL's playoff ratings are the best since at least 1994 in terms of total audience delivery, but they're only up a bit on last year. It was a … Sports Business Daily notes that it was the lowest average since at least 2010-11. 2011 – Game seven was second most-watched CBC Sports program, drawing an average of 8.76 million viewers and trailing only the men's gold medal game in ice hockey at the 2002 Winter Olympics;; 2010 – Game one was viewed by 3.164 million people on CBC. Last year, NFL games represented 41 of the 50 most-watched shows on TV. Game six was the most-watched All-American Stanley Cup Final game, with 4.077 million viewers. MLB released a report Monday detailing fan engagement and participation during the last six months, plus other notable The pandemic coupled with an election year and … Viewers are down because they took a fundamental part of the game out of it. The statistic depicts the average TV viewership of NHL season opener games in the United States from 2009 to 2019. NHL viewership on NBC’s broadcast and cable channels is up 8% over the comparable number of games last year. The Dallas Cowboys and Washington Football Team drew more than 30 million viewers on Thanksgiving Day. Even though several games have set high-water marks for recent playoff game viewership, overall ratings for the 2020 NHL postseason are down significantly. NHL Playoff Ratings See Few Bright Spots In Otherwise Down Year. The 2019 MLB season featured increased TV and digital viewership, growing participation in baseball and softball, a combined attendance of nearly 110 million fans across Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball. As we have noted throughout, NFL TV ratings were a mixed back throughout the 2020 season. NHL regular-season games averaged 417,000 viewers across NBC, NBCSN and NBC’s digital platforms, down 12% from last year (474K). It was off an average of 50 percent over last year’s numbers. The NHL Playoffs, sans the Stanley Cup, drew an average of 845,000 viewers on NBC, NBCSN and its digital channels, according to Sportico. The year of the coronavirus was a major disaster for professional sports as every league suffered ratings declines, and lost billions in revenue in 2020. You can watch the viewership decline with those fights declining. I read an article 2 weeks ago how viewership has tanked since they made the fighting more strict. 2:37. 2008-2009 season saw 774 fights. Canadian television. According to Sports Media Watch, last season NHL viewership hit a multi-year low in the regular season. Overall viewership for Stanley Cup Playoffs drops 38% compared to last year. that was the fighting. 2018-2019 saw just 224. 31 Dec 2020 3,289. Posted on September 5, 2020 by Jon Sorensen. TV viewership was not off by just a little, either. Through 23 games, each NBC game on NBC Sports averaged 485,000 viewers.