Nba Tv Ratings Down. Game 2 cratered with just 4.5 million viewers and a dismal 1. For the first time since the nfl’s 2016 decline, sports media added the ratings beat to its fading arsenal.
Now, that doesn’t mean the nba is currently going completely unwatched or the league is going out of business. According to sports media watch, the two conference finals series around the association saw television ratings decrease by 35%. The tv ratings were bad for the nba as the los angeles lakers won the championship over the heat.
Game 6 of the nba finals on sunday night drew in an audience of 5.6 million viewers, down from 18.34 million a year ago.
25, the nba playoffs were down 20% compared to 2019, according to real gm. This could have been a time when the league — and any other televised sports league — enjoyed mammoth. Despite the nba playoffs being in full swing and all the games having actual, genuine meaning, tv ratings for the first round were down 27 percent year over year. Games broadcast on nba tv were not included in the data.