Last night’s NBA All-Star game drew a 5.5 household rating – that’s up 12% over last year’s overnight rating. Last year’s game went head-to-head against the Winter Olympics, but this year’s game was simulcast on TBS. The 5.5 rating is a combined rating for TNT and TBS.
Final national household rating and viewership should be released sometime this afternoon.
Here are the All-Star game overnight household ratings going back to 2009:
| Year | Overnight HH Rating |
| 2015 | 5.5 |
| 2014 | 4.9 |
| 2013 | 5.9 |
| 2012 | 5.4 |
| 2011 | 6.2 |
| 2010 | 4.6 |
| 2009 | 5.2 |
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. The share is the percentage of the households that were watching TV at the time.