It’s a tough time for live sports. Both the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Finals ended this week with historically low viewership across each five-game series
and the Stanley Cup Finals ended this week with historically low viewership across each five-game series.
On Tuesday night, the Vegas Golden Knights took home the Stanley Cup in Game 5 of the NHL Finals, winning a fourth match against the Florida Panthers. That game drew 2.72M viewers acrossand TruTV, which marks the lowest audience for a Game 5 of the Cup Final in 29 years, since the Canucks-Rangers Game 5 drew 2.41M viewers on ESPN in 1994.
Overall, the five-game series averaged 2.6M viewers, which was down 43% from last year’s six-game Avalanche-Lightning series on . Excluding pandemic-era fanless series, this year’s Cup Final was the least-watched since 2007, when the Ducks-Senators series drew 1.8M viewers.Earlier this week, the NBA Finals concluded on a similar note, albeit with a small victory. Game 5 of the Finals saw the Denver Nuggets secure the championship against the Miami Heat with 13.08M people watching on ABC. Viewership peaked for the Nuggets-Heat Game 5 with 17.88M viewers at 11 p.m. ET.
The game managed a 1% audience increase versus last year’s Game 5 of the Warriors-Celtics series and marks the most-watched Game 5 of the Finals in four years, since Warriors-Raptors had 18.8M viewers in 2019.The five-game series averaged 11.64M viewers, which was down overall compared to last year’s Warriors-Celtics six-game matchup. That makes the Heats-Nuggets series one of the least-viewed NBA Finals in more than a decade.
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