The NBA Finals topped the sports viewership charts on Wednesday, June 12th, as they do every year.
Game 3 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Mavericks on Wednesday averaged a 6.0 rating and 11.43 million viewers across ABC (5.7, 10.97 million) and ESPN (0.27, 453K), which was flat and up 2% from last year's Nuggets vs. Heat (6.0, 11.24 million) and was the most-watched sporting event of the day.
Check out this article for ratings on Celtics wins and averages for the series so far.
The second-ranked match of the day, the United States vs. Brazil men's soccer friendly, averaged 1.95 million total viewers, including 1.11 million for Spanish-language coverage on Telemundo and Universo and 848,000 for English-language coverage on TNT (682,000) and TruTV (166,000). The English-language audience was the largest ever for a U.S. men's soccer national team match broadcast on TNT Sports.
No other sporting event even reached the 200,000 mark: Major League Baseball's daytime game between the Athletics and Padres ranked third on MLB Network with 170,000 viewers, while the local late-night slot had 151,000 viewers. The annual Congressional Baseball Game averaged 116,000 viewers on FS1.
On game day of the NBA Finals, FS1's talk show “Undisputed” averaged 35,000 viewers, its second-lowest viewership since returning from a hiatus last year, trailing only the Friday of Memorial Day weekend (31,000).
Sports viewership for Wednesday, June 12
