Nba Christmas Tv Ratings

Christmas should be a springboard for the nba to kickstart their season but viewers have had enough.

Nba christmas tv ratings. The christmas caroler challenge. According to john ourand of sports. Nba tv ratings were the talk of the league s restart at walt disney world in orlando last season.

The nba expanded to five christmas day games in 2008 and. The national basketball association s day long celebration of sports led the demos scoring a 1 1 and 3 74 million total audience for its hours long programming for abc and espn. Every year since the current tv deals began in 2002 christmas has produced the highest rated game of the regular season.

Under the five game format the highest rated and most watched nba christmas was 2011 which doubled as opening day of the lockout shortened season. Jayne kamin oncea usa today sports via reuters. December 26 2020 5 10 pm et.

Ratings for the league have been down all through december 6th compared to last year and christmas day was no different. Nba basketball and. The huge slate of christmas day games averaged 2 83 million viewers up 10 from a season.

Nba christmas viewership took a hit but the numbers held up reasonably well. Friday december 25 2020 ratings new episodes. Nba tv ratings tank for the los angeles lakers on christmas.

That s the good news the bad news is that s down massively from past performances. The five game schedule averaged a 3 5 rating and 6 3 million viewers. The tv ratings for the lakers beating the mavericks 138 115 friday night weren t great at all.