Austin Karp

The LA Galaxy’s MLS Cup victory over the New York Red Bulls on Saturday drew an average of 468,000 total viewers across Fox and Fox Deportes, down 47% from the combined linear audience of 890,000 for last year’s championship match across the same channels.

The Oakley Icon Alliance initiative, a new tournament, is launching today, as the brand looks to promote the growth of women’s flag football.

USC G JuJu Watkins continues to expand her sponsorship portfolio, with State Farm adding her to a large stable of women’s basketball endorsers like Fever G Caitlin Clark, Storm G Jewell Loyd, Aces G Kelsey Plum and Wings G Arike Ogunbowale (not to mention leaguewide deals with the WNBA and the soon-to-launch Unrivaled).

SBJ Media: Analysts see NBA-WBD resolution as positive

Mike Mulvihill, Fox Sports’ president of insights and analytics, is among those questioning Netflix’s reporting of 60 million global  households watching Friday’s Jake Paul-Mike Tyson main event.

The 'Big Noon Saturday' match of Ohio State-Nebraska led all college football games over the weekend, while the World Series had two of the top seven most-watched sports telecasts from the weekend.

It’s been a decade since the launch of “The Rich Eisen Show,” and while the program has swapped homes a few times — going from Audience Network to YouTube to NBCSN to Peacock, and now to Roku Channel — its mission to bring on big names and mix in humor with decades of sports experience has remained the same for more than 2,000 episodes.

Fox drew the best World Series Game 1 since 2017 with 13.9 million viewers tuning in for the Dodgers’ 10th-inning walk-off in Game 1 on Friday night.

The move of the SEC broadcast TV package to ABC continues to be a boon for ESPN, with Georgia-Texas on Saturday night delivering 13.2 million viewers on ABC, the best college football primetime game on any network since 2014.

The MLB Postseason is up 5% heading into the World Series, with all games (Wild Card, LDS, LCS) averaging 3.95 million viewers vs. 3.77 million at the same point last season.

The WNBA Playoffs heads into tonight’s Game 3 of the Lynx-Liberty Finals with the league’s best viewership across ESPN networks in 25 years (since the inaugural 1997 season).

SBJ Media: RSN audience down during MLB season

RSN ratings were up in K.C., but a vast majority of MLB teams saw lower numbers during the regular season.

Telecasts in the third quarter surrounding the Olympics and a presidential election season made big inroads among the year’s 75 most-watched telecasts (English language).

The biennial Presidents Cup drew 1.37 million viewers for the final day on Sunday on NBC, down 28% from the similar Sunday in 2022 (1.89 million).

Top TV markets: Dallas passes Philly; D.C. overtakes Boston

The WNBA averaged 657,000 viewers for the historic 2024 regular season, its best mark in 24 years and fueled by huge numbers for Caitlin Clark’s rookie season with the Indiana Fever.

The first meeting of the Wolverines and Trojans as Big Ten foes topped Week 4's viewership numbers.

The Paris Olympics helped NBCUniversal to a new monthly record in terms of total TV usage by a single media company, according to new data from Nielsen’s Media Distributor Gauge.

SBJ Media: Netflix data gives glimpse of users sports viewing habits