NFL Draft, Hawks-Nets, Wild-Blackhawks lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday May 1, 2015

About an hour of second and third-round of NFL Draft coverage on ESPN Friday led cable sports with 2.342 million viewers and a 1.1 adults 18-49 rating. Another 3+ hours of coverage on ESPN2 grabbed 2 million viewers. 4+ hours of coverage on NFL Network averaged 1.11 million viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating.

The only NBA game on Friday was the Atlanta Hawks finishing off the Brooklyn Nets in the sixth game of the last remaining first-round series. It averaged 2.011 million viewers and an 0.8 adults 18-49 rating.

In NHL second-round action on NBCSN, the Chicago Blackhawks win over the Minnesota Wild in the first game of that series averaged 1.869 million viewers and a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating.  The Tampa Bay Lightning’s double overtime win over the Montreal Canadiens averaged 1.134 million viewers and a 0.4 adults 18-49 rating.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Friday May 1, 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…