Update: game 3 averaged 16.465 million viewers, down around 12% versus last year’s 18.7 million average for game 3.
Cleveland’s win over Golden State in game 3 averaged an 11.8 overnight rating. That’s down 13.9 percent from last year’s game 3 which drew a huge 13.7 overnight rating (last year the series had been tied entering game 3).
The telecast peaked with a 13.4 rating from 10-10:15 p.m. ET. Through three games the series is averaging a 12.2 overnight rating.
Top local markets:
Market | Rating |
Cleveland | 36.7 |
San Francisco | 30.7 |
Columbus | 17.6 |
Miami | 16.7 |
San Antonio | 16.2 |
Atlanta | 15.6 |
Sacramento | 15.3 |
Memphis | 14.7 |
Birmingham | 13.4 |
Norfolk | 13.1 |
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