PBC Boxing primetime NBC overnight down 4% from April 11 telecast and 26% from March 7 premiere

PBC Boxing in Primetime scored a 1.86 overnight rating.  That’s down 4% from the 1.94 overnight rating on April 11th in primetime and down 26% from PBC’s primetime premiere on March 7 that scored a 2.53 overnight rating. Update: while the overnight rating was only down 4% from April, nationwide viewership was down 21%.

Top Markets household rating/share:

1. Cincinnati, 4.1/8
2. Oklahoma City, 3.4/6
3. New Orleans, 3.2/5
4. Tulsa, 3.0/6
5. Greenville, 2.9/5
6. Albuquerque, 2.8/6
7. Baltimore, 2.8/5
8. Las Vegas, 2.7/5
9. Sacramento, 2.7/6
10. San Antonio, 2.7/5.

More info via NBC Sports:

In metered-market results, which are time zone-adjusted, last night’s NBC Sports 8:30-11 p.m. ET telecast of “Premier Boxing Champions,” with bouts featuring Adrien “The Problem” Broner vs. “Showtime” Shawn Porter and Errol Spence Jr. vs. Phil “The Italian Sensation” Lo Greco, posted a 1.86 rating, 4 share in household results from the 56 markets metered by Nielsen Media Research,

· The metered-market household rating for “PBC” on NBC increased every half hour, peaking at a 2.56 from 10:30-11pm ET for the final rounds of the Broner-Porter bout and Porter’s unanimous decision over Broner. That 2.56 for the peak half hour topped by +8% the peak for the prior “PBC” telecast on NBC April 11 (2.38).

· From its first half-hour to its fifth, “Premier Boxing Champions” on NBC grew by +88% in metered-market households (1.36 to 2.56). In adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with Local People Meters, the increase from first half-hour to fifth was +86% (0.7 to 1.3).

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.