The NBA schedule is out. These 25 games will help define the 2025-26 season.
After years of contentious negotiations, fans will now flip among ESPN, ABC, NBC, Peacock, NBA TV and Amazon’s Prime Video for national broadcasts.
TV Ratings
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How IndyCar, Fox each win in deal that gives media giant minority ownership
Executives, team officials and industry experts told IBJ they believe the Fox investment will help IndyCar better compete for fans in an increasingly crowded sports landscape.
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Whether ratings are good or not, Thunder-Pacers could be series true basketball fans enjoy
The media markets aren’t large, but this series has everything else: star power, good coaching and All-Stars on both sides. And it adds to the NBA’s recent run of parity.
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Indy 500 viewership bounces back after low ratings in 2022
This year’s Indianapolis 500 attracted an average of 4.92 million viewers during the afternoon broadcast by NBC and Peacock.
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Women making case in tourney for own March Madness TV deal
Women’s basketball seems to have found a winner with its new Sweet 16 format in March Madness, and the timing couldn’t be better with looming TV contract negotiations on the horizon.
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WNBA ratings, attendance still strong despite top stars missing games with injuries
Injuries have kept Caitlin Clark, Breanna Stewart, Napheesa Collier and Angel Reese out, but that hasn’t dampened fan interest in the league.
WNBA All-Star Game viewership falls 36% from last year’s contest
Media experts had expected a ratings decline after Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark withdrew from playing in the game due to an injury.
Indianapolis 500 averages 7.05M viewers on Fox, biggest TV audience in 17 years
It was only the second time since 2001 that the Indianapolis 500 has outdrawn the Daytona 500 in TV viewership.
Fever-Sky contest most-viewed WNBA regular-season game in 25 years
The Fever’s 93-58 victory was also the most-watched WNBA game ever on ESPN platforms.
Caitlin Clark’s return to Iowa for Fever preseason game draws big viewership for ESPN
The average viewership for Sunday’s game was 13% higher than ESPN’s 2024 regular-season average for the WNBA.
Fox Sports draws big numbers for IndyCar season debut
Sunday’s season opener was the most watched IndyCar Series event aside from the Indianapolis 500 on any network since 2011.
College Football Playoff national title game sees viewership decline
Ohio State University’s 34-23 victory over the University of Notre Dame in Monday night’s CFP championship game in Atlanta was the most-watched game of the season. However, it saw a double-digit drop in viewers from last year’s title match.
Led by Caitlin Clark, WNBA sees near-record attendance, record TV ratings
The first month of the WNBA season drew its highest attendance since the league’s second season in 1998 and the best television ratings in its history, the WNBA announced Tuesday.
Fever’s season opener sets ESPN record for WNBA games
The Indiana Fever’s season-opening road game Tuesday night against the Connecticut Sun—featuring the debut of Caitlin Clark—was the most-watched WNBA game since 2001.
Another record for Caitlin Clark: Most-watched women’s college hoops game ever
The University of Iowa’s victory over Louisiana State University was the most-watched men’s or women’s college basketball game ever on ESPN, more than doubling the prior largest audience.
March Madness: TV ratings slightly up over last year despite Sunday’s blowouts
Overall, the tournament is averaging 9.07 million viewers on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV. That is a slight increase over the 9.05 million average at this point last year.
NFL regular-season ratings down 3% over last season
The dip was not unexpected with “Thursday Night Football” moving from Fox and NFL Network to exclusively airing on Amazon Prime Video.
Nielsen, Amazon Prime spar over NFL football audience
Neither company is saying the other is wrong, but neither is backing down, either. The result is confusion, most notably for advertisers.
NCAA has decisions ahead over TV rights to women’s hoops tourney
Ratings were up for this year’s NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament and advertising sold out early, leaving the Indianapolis-based NCAA big decisions to make involving future TV rights for the tourney.
About 17 million view Baylor’s championship win over Gonzaga
TV ratings were down nearly 14% from the last NCAA men’s basketball title game, between Virginia and Texas Tech in 2019.
Bucs’ rout of Chiefs earns worst Super Bowl rating since 1969
The considerable star power of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Kansas City Chiefs counterpart Patrick Mahomes was not enough to attract the kind of audience the NFL has enjoyed for its championship game over the past dozen years.
TV, streaming viewership for Indy 500 down from last year’s race
The broadcast of Sunday’s race delivered a huge rating in Indianapolis, but overall viewership was likely hurt by a tougher a slate of competition from other sports, including NASCAR.
Local TV stations’ ratings rise, but advertisers flee
The very thing that is driving the increase—the coronavirus outbreak—is also preventing stations from cashing in on those ratings increases.
Young viewers skip local TV news, consume info online
While TV news has seen audience declines across many age categories, the biggest losses are with younger viewers.