The Cavaliers acquired a win during the final seconds of Sunday night’s game against Golden State, and ABC is hitting nothing but 3-pointers with this year’s NBA Finals. The final ratings from Game 2 are in: 18.8 million watched in to last night’s overtime thriller from 8-11:24 PM, with a 7.3 rating in the key demo. That’s up 26% from last year’s Game 2 in total audiences and 24% in the demo, and marks the best Game 2 outcome ABC has seen since the network started carrying the series in 2003. The latest slam-dunk comes after Game 1 on Thursday, which also went into overtime, get an audience of 17.8 million viewers with a 6.9/25 rating, the most-watched Game 1 ever on ABC.
Going into Game 3 tomorrow in Cleveland, the 2015 NBA Finals is on normal up 24% in viewers and 20% in adults 18-49 over last year. How big was last night’s game? Well, with the court battle and its lead-up shows, ABC had 140% more of the demo of all the other Big 4 networks put together with a 5.3/18 to their joined 2.2/7. That’s game on.
The Tony Awards were down double digits nationally from last year last night but in the home of Broadway, things were looking up. Among adults 18-49, Sunday’s broadcast of the awards ceremony on NYC’s WCBS were up 44% from last year with a 3.6 rating. That is the greatest the Tonys have done in its hometown in 3-years.
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