CBS finished with 3.3 million viewers for the first telecast of the Alliance of American Football on Saturday night, which featured two games as part of a regionalized window. That figure topped Thunder-Rockets on ABC in the same window, which drew 2.7 million viewers. On Sunday night, NFL Network drew 640,000 viewers for its first AAF game (Salt Lake Stallions-Arizona Hotshots). ESPN in the similar window drew 655,000 viewers for a Top Rank Boxing telecast, while NBA TV drew 540,000 for a non-exclusive Heat-Warriors game and NBCSN drew 304,000 viewers for Maple Leafs-Rangers.
NOTES: FS1 saw a gain for the Advance Auto Parts Clash on Sunday afternoon. The non-points race as part of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series drew 2.294 million viewers, up from 2.255 million viewers last year, when the race had competition from the first Sunday of the Pyeongchang Games....The first televised NBA All-Star Draft drew 912,00 viewers on Thursday night on TNT. The 45-minute telecast led into an NBA doubleheader window.
The chart below lists final audience figures from select recent sports telecasts.
