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Fascinating.
NEW YORK (AP) - The NBA finals were a television bust.
San Antonio's four-game sweep of Cleveland finished with a record-low 6.2 television rating and 11 share on ABC, Nielsen Media Research said Friday.
That was down 27 percent from the 8.5/15 for Miami's six-game victory over Dallas last year and 5 percent under the previous low, a 6.5/12 for San Antonio's six-game win over New Jersey in 2003. The NBA finals averaged 9.3 million viewers this year.
San Antonio's series-winning 83-82 victory on Thursday night got a 6.5/12, down 17 percent from the 7.8/14 for Game 4 last year.
The NHL Stanley Cup finals also hit a record low this year, with NBC averaging a 1.6/3 for the final three games of Anaheim's five-game victory over Ottawa. The first two games were televised on the cable network Versus.
The rating is the percentage watching a telecast among all homes with televisions, and the share is the percentage tuned in to a broadcast among those households with televisions on at the time. A ratings point represents 1,114,000 households.
Fascinating.
I guess we are NOT, in fact, all witnesses.
I really only watched one full game. the rest..i watched about 10-15 minutes.
Yeah the finals wasn't that interesting to me either. Detroit/San Antonio would've been more interesting. Cleveland had no chance before the series started. San Antonio>>>>Cleveland.
How about outside the US?
damm when people know who will win why watch
cavs suck
We probably won't know for a while, but the last two years it was around 100 million.
Knicks drew a rating of ZERO those nights.
should be more with all the foreigners the spurs have.
Is that how you spell it?
France will turn in somewhere around 1 million, and Argentina will have had 2-3 million, but the biggest market by far is China, which probably will have had upwards of 50 million viewers.
What is funny/sad about that is that even per capita, more Chinese will tune in to watch the Spurs than Americans will.
Not sure why low ratings would piss off Spurs fans, the series was uber boring, but you guys won, end of story.
The Spurs turn basketball into soccer, or maybe ping pong.
The Spurs are the Nutella of hoops.
Well its a simple solution, pretend this series didn't happen and have the warriors and suns play for the le. I really hope we get a chance to play the suns in the playoffs next year, that could bring offensive basketball back after this debacle.
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