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Here\u2019s a list of TV and streaming viewership stats for recent sports events and seasons across baseball, golf, tennis, car racing, hockey, soccer and other sporting events:<\/p>\n
\u26be The MLB\u00a0Home Run Derby averaged 5.73M viewers on ESPN, a 5% increase over last year (2024 game competed with the Republican National Convention. The MLB All-Star Game\u00a0averaged 7.2M viewers on FOX, down 3.5% from 2024.<\/p>\n
\u26be FOX\u2019s Baseball Night in America game between the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees averaged 3.1M viewers, the largest game so far this season, and up 61% from last year, but down from the high of 3.2M in 2018.<\/p>\n
\u26be Through the first 11 games of Sunday Night Baseball on ESPN, viewership averaged 1.7M viewers, up 12% from last year.<\/p>\n
\u26be The 2025 NCAA Women\u2019s College World Series (baseball) averaged 2.2M viewers across ESPN\/ESPNU, up 11% over last year.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfce\ufe0f The\u00a0Indianapolis 500 averaged 7.05M viewers on FOX, up 40% from the 2024 race.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfce\ufe0f The current Formula 1 season on ESPN networks has attracted an average of 1.3M viewers, up 17% from the 2024 full-season average. The Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix on ABC averaged 2.3M viewers for the race-only portion of the telecast, the largest live U.S. television audience ever for the event.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfce\ufe0f Prime Video\u2019s inaugural season of the NASCAR Cup Series averaged 2.16M viewers across five events.<\/p>\n
\u26bd The 2024\/2025 season of the Premier League viewership across all NBCUniversal platforms in English and Spanish averaged 510,000 viewers per match window, down 6.5% from the previous year.<\/p>\n
\u26bd Over 13M viewers tuned in to Prime Video\u2019s debut season of the UEFA Champions League in the UK and Ireland across the 2024\u201325 season. Amazon did not break out viewer stats for a single game, and it should be noted that Amazon UK does not use Nielsen but rather its first-party data.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc8 The first six weeks of the 2025 UFL season averaged 612,000 viewers per game across FOX, ABC, ESPN, and FS1, down 25% from last year.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc8 The 2025 NFL draft averaged 7.5M viewers across all networks and digital channels for the three days, up 27% from last year.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfbe The 2025 Wimbledon tournament averaged 721,000 total viewers across ABC\/ESPN\/ESPN2, up 6% from last year. ESPN did not break out viewership for ESPN+.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc0 The 2025 NBA Finals averaged 10.2M viewers, down 46% from the all-time high of 19M viewers in 2005.<\/p>\n
\u26f3 Across the four rounds of the 2025 U.S. Open (golf) on NBC and USA Network, viewership averaged 2.9M, a slight decrease from 3.1M last year.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfd2 The 2025 NHL Stanley Cup Finals on TNT and TruTV, averaged 2.5M viewers, down 40% from last year and the lowest rating since 2021.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfc7 The 25th\u00a0presentation of the Kentucky Derby on NBC and Peacock\u00a0averaged 17.7M viewers, up 6% from last year.<\/p>\n
All statistics are from press releases from the respective broadcasters and streaming platforms.<\/p>\n