Update: the game averaged 8.005 million viewers, slightly less than the 8.2 million for game 6 of Blackhawks-Bruins in game 6 of 2013. The game did a 4.4/8 national household rating/share and a 2.8/10 adults 18-49 rating/share.
The Chicago Blackhawks 2-0 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning to win the Stanley Cup Final four games to two drew a 5.6 overnight household rating, which is the 3rd-best Stanley Cup Final Game 6 on record since 1995 and ties the Blackhawks’ 2013 Game 6 win.
The Chicago market drew a massive 41.0 household rating (% of all homes with TVs) with a 57 share (% of homes watching TV).
Top markets:
- Chicago: 41.0
- Tampa: 15.2
- Buffalo: 10.5
- Milwaukee: 7.9
- Denver: 7.6
- Minn-St.Paul: 7.5
- Boston: 6.7
- Providence: 5.8
- St.Louis: 5.8
- Las Vegas: 5.1
Overnight household rating = the live+same day DVR overnight metered-market household rating from the top 56 Nielsen television markets. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) account for about 70% of the US TV-viewing population. The overnight household rating is the percentage of the households that were tuned-in in those markets