📺 Record-breaking CFB Week 1 for FOX, King of the Hill & Wednesday have strong premieres, and more!
Plus, we look at the latest streaming data from market-research leaders like Luminate, Nielsen and SambaTV.
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Quick Broadcasting/Streaming Stats (from last week)
SBJ’s Adam Stern reported on the motorsport’s viewership from last week, where FOX earned 1.142M viewers for the final IndyCar race in Nashville, averaging 1.362M viewers across the season, a 17-year high.
Racing News Co. reported that the NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out Southern 500 earned 1.88M viewers on the USA Network.
ESPN PR showcases that Lee Corso’s final College Gameday was the most-watched episode ever with 4M viewers.
ESPN PR denotes the viewership of CFB games across their platforms from Week 1:
Notre Dame vs. Miami - 10.8M on ABC
Alabama vs. Florida State - 10.7M on ABC
LSU vs. Clemson - 10.4M on ABC
TCU vs. North Carolina - 6.6M on ESPN
Virginia Tech vs. South Carolina - 5.4M on ESPN
Georgia Tech vs. Colorado - 3.7M on ESPN
Nebraska vs. Cincinatti - 3.3M on ESPN
FOX Sports announces that they earned the most-watched Week 1 CFB game in history, averaging 16.6M viewers, Big Noon Kickoff featuring the Barstool’s Dave Portnoy earned 3.8M.
Check out Manny‘s Substack for a comprehensive view at College Football Week 1 viewing: Auburn vs. Baylor earned 2.832M viewers on FOX.
Also check out our Weekly Wrestling Viewership Thread; AEW Dynamite earned 472K viewers on TBS, and more!
Latest Nielsen Top Ten data (August 4th - August 10th)
Latest Luminate Top Ten data (August 29th - September 4th) via Variety
Latest SambaTV Top Ten data (August 25th - August 31st) & The Terminal List: Dark Wolf metrics
For any new readers below is our NEW newsletter schedule:
Sundays - Sports Streaming Guide (guide to US-based sports coming to streaming)
Mondays - Streaming this Week (guide to English-based digital content coming to streaming)
Fridays - Data Dump (Weekly Broadcasting/Streaming metrics)
Bi-weekly(sometimes more) - Data Analysis/Topic Deep-Dive
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still haven’t watched a single episode of wednesday 😩😩
New king of the hill is fine