UPDATED: ABC's coverage of the basketball championship delivers its second best overnights for a NBA game ever -- while NBC's even "Hannibal" ends freshman season on a low note.
Getty Images
The last game of the 2013 NBA Finals made up for dips earlier in
the series. Overnight returns for the Miami Heat's game 7 championship
win over the Chicago Blackhawks place it is as the second-highest-rated
NBA game to ever air on ABC. The game delivered a 17.7 overnight rating,
according to Nielsen, with the telecast peaking near the game's
conclusion with a 22.6 rating. The game earned an initial 8.7 rating
with adults 18-49, which will move up in final returns.
Early entries in the series had been coming in shy of 2012, but the
tight race between both teams ultimately brought the finals all the way
to game 7. Last year, the highest-rated in 8 years, ended in game 5 with
a 12.5 overnight rating. Final ratings and total viewership with time
zone adjustments taken into account won't be available until later
Friday.
Elsewhere on ABC, initial returns give Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night
a 3.2 rating adults 18-49 and the pre-game show a 4.5 rating.
No comments:
Post a Comment