The WNBA continues to show its strength Both Sunday playoff games were up significantly vs. last year while going head-to-head with NFL games Liberty/Lynx 1.2M, +26% Fever/Aces 2.1M, +122% Fever/Aces was also ESPN’s 3rd most-watched WNBA playoff game ever

A Saturday sweep for ESPN ESPN on ABC had the 3 most-watched college football games of the week — taking the top spot at noon, late afternoon and prime Texas/Tennessee led the way at 9.7M, peaking at 12.9M in the final minutes. The biggest noon game on any network this season.

MNF off to a record start despite heartbreaking Dart injury. A strong sign of the interest in Giants-Rams was audiences grew 31% from kickoff to halftime — well ahead of the typical 20% growth we saw on average across ESPN/ABC MNF games last season.

The value of Prime, even when weather gets in the way. The two most-watched CFB games of Week 3: FSU/Bama (7M) and Ole Miss/LSU (10.9M) — despite a rain delay and prime overlap. ESPN had the top 5 games of the week. Who was #6? NBC’s primetime window ND/Michigan State.

It’s tough to gauge the health of a sport early on with differences in scheduling and competitiveness of games That’s why College GameDay has always been my early bellwether for college football Hitting 2.7M - an all-time Week 2 high -is a strong sign for college football

SMU/Florida State on Monday averaged 4.1M viewers,after a delayed start. Not bad considering the 106-minute power-outage delay prior to the game averaged 3.4M viewers. Fans stuck around to watch the game

The Knicks historic Game 4 comeback averaged 20.9M viewers, the most-watched Game 4 since 1998. The series is now on pace to become the most-viewed NBA Finals since Jordan’s Last Dance—proof that live sports still bring people together in extraordinary ways

Let’s put Knicks-Spurs Game 3 23.8M viewers into context It was higher than the Game 3 audiences of four of Michael Jordan’s six NBA championship runs. Only the Game 3s of Jordan’s iconic 1993 and 1998 “Last Dance” were higher.    We are in historic, historic territory

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Men’s College Basketball is on fire at this point. On Monday Houston/Kansas drew 2M & Louisville/North Carolina drew 1.7M. Big Monday, up +86% YoY. The freshman class paired with a highly ranked Big 12 have really supercharged ratings.

On Saturday viewers watched 1.9 billion minutes of men’s college basketball across 19 live games – a single-day regular season record for ESPN. Growth was driven by Michigan/Duke at 4.3M & Arizona/Houston at 2.4M. Great momentum for the sport during a Winter Olympics weekend.

Fellow Christ the King alumni showed what New York basketball is all about last night #ctkbasketball

The @UNC_Basketball vs. @DukeMBB game on Saturday night drew 3.5 million viewers on ESPN, which is the best for the regular season matchup since Coach K's finale in March 2022. Also ESPN's best regular season game in 4 years

This past weekend's '26 NHL #StadiumSeries DELIVERED! 🏒 Most-viewed #NHL reg. season game EVER on cable 🏒 Most-viewed Stadium Series on cable 🏒 ESPN's most-viewed NHL reg. season game on record More: bit.ly/4qQ0OaW

Sabalenka, Alcaraz, Djokovic, Sinner, Gauff, Anisimova, Pegula & Shelton are fueling tennis’s momentum. Australian Open quarterfinals were the most-watched in nine years. Star power + depth matters.

Every snowstorm brings the same assumption: “PUT will be up, ratings will follow.” This weekend says otherwise. OOH matters more than ever — and it’s why Friday Prime has quietly worked for us. Time to stop revisit viewing assumptions

Vance from Georgia tells @finebaum that a tree fell through his house into his bedroom 10 minutes ago. When asked why he decided to stay on the line, Vance says there was nothing he could immediately do about it, and assures us that he and his dogs are OK. "I was on hold and thought, 'Well, what are you going to do? There's nothing you can do this second.'" Unfazed, Vance goes ahead asks Paul a question about LSU's transfer portal class.

I agree with Mike on a lot, but I don’t think one title defines “product quality.” Parity matters. The SEC delivers it: more double-ranked matchups in the regular season (23 vs 12) and significantly closer games (13.5 MOV vs 19.9 elsewhere). That’s the weekly product.

In a complex TV environment simplicity and lead-ins matter more “Sankey attributes the SEC’s audience increase to its ardent fan base…..Stacking SEC double- & triple-headers on ABC also helped build audiences, as opposed to Big Ten games shown across different networks”

30.1M viewers watched the National Championship Game. An amazing number period Keep in mind that this number was reached without a Georgia/ Bama/ Michigan or Ohio State And this number was reached on ESPN’s cable networks - no ABC distribution Just let that sink in