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Nielsen is continuing to develop new ways to find viewers that have not traditionally been captured in its samples. The company’s newest experiment is designed to better capture “co-viewing,” industry parlance for when several people watch a telecast together in the same room. While Nielsen’s co-viewing measurements are still in the pilot phase and thus…
After posting the worst viewership under its current broadcast deals last season, the NHL had a major rebound in 2025-26. NHL viewership averaged 546,000 viewers across ESPN, ABC, and TNT/truTV this regular season, the league’s best mark since the lockout-shortened 2012-13 season, per viewership data from Austin Karp in Sports Business Journal. Incredibly, the league…
UConn’s thrilling comeback win over Duke during last Sunday’s Elite Eight delivered on the court, but wasn’t a ratings monster by any stretch. Braylon Mullins’ last-second three to lift the Huskies over the Blue Devils and complete a 19-point comeback averaged 13.4 million viewers in the Sunday evening window on CBS, the network announced on…
