Rockets-Clippers lead cable sports nets for Sunday May 10, 2015

Despite the Los Angeles Clippers blowing out the Houston Rockets by 33 points on Sunday night to take a 3-1 series lead in their second-round dual, the game on TNT easily topped cable sports for the day with an average of 5.03 million viewers and a 1.9 adults 18-49 rating.

On NBCSN the New York Rangers 4-3 win over the Washington Capitals to deadlock their second-round NHL Stanley Cup Playoff series at three games apiece averaged 1.948 million viewers and a 0.8 adults 18-49 rating.  The Anaheim Ducks 3-2 win over the Calgary Flames to close out their second-round series 4-1 averaged 831,000 viewers and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating.

ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball Kansas City Royals vs Detroit Tigers game where the Royals won 2-1 in 10 innings (the game also had an hour and forty-three minute rain delay) averaged 1.597 million viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating.

The U.S. Women’s national soccer team’s 3-0 victory over Ireland in a friendly on FS1 Sunday afternoon averaged 319,000 viewers. The battle for New York with  New York Red Bulls edging out New York City FC 2-1 averaged 233,000 viewers. The ‘Garbage Time with Katie Nolan’ telecast that followed the game averaged 188,000 viewers.

The Toronto vs Houston MLS match on ESPN averaged 177,000 viewers.

In Premier League action on NBCSN Chelsea vs Liverpool averaged 596,000 viewers (we didn’t see the numbers for Manchester City vs QPR on CNBC yet but will add them when we do). Early morning Formula 1 coverage on NBCSN averaged 543,000 viewers.

Cable Sports TV Ratings for Sunday Sunday May 10, 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…