Final round of The Open, SportCenter, PTI lead cable sports for Monday July 20, 2015

The final round of The Open golf championship on ESPN averaged 3.361 million viewers to easily lead Monday’s cable sports programming. That more than last year’s final round which averaged 3.299 million viewers and last year’s final round was on a Sunday.

With ~75% of the viewership being over the age of 50, retirees might have made up a big chunk of the number. But the 3.361 million average is just for live and same day (up to 3am) DVR viewing and don’t include any WatchESPN streaming.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Monday July 20, 2015:

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Note: viewership of around 100,000 or lower is technically what Nielsen refers to as a “scratch” i.e., not enough Nielsen panelists watched for Nielsen to validate it. There are around 20,000 homes in the Nielsen panel and a bit over 50,000 panelists, where 1 Nielsen panelist watching a whole telecast represents around 5,800 people.  So something averaging a million viewers averaged around 170 people out of the 50K+ panel — small, but still statistically significant. But when there’s a show with 30,000 viewers, that’s only around 5 or 6 Nielsen panelists…