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Originally Posted by Byatch1979  Winning the Stanley Cup is a grind for sure, but if a championship is won, and nobody watches, did it really happen? I'm not exactly sure, but what's the Superbowl viewership compared to that of the last game of the Cup finals? |
It was close. Superbowl Sunday is like a holiday. Even people who hate football watch the game. Some only to watch the commercials. Talk about a tv networks dream; people actually care more about the network making money than the actuall event.
According to Mediaweek, game four of The Stanley Cup Finals on NBC received 3.02 million viewers and a 1.2/ 3 among adults 18-49 in prime time. The year-ago Stanley Cup match-up scored
3.13 million viewers and a 1.3/ 4 in the demo, based on the final nationals on June 12, 2006.
According to Nielsen's preliminary overnight ratings, a record number of Super Bowl viewers tuned in to watch the Giants shock the world™ by upsetting the heavily favored, once-unbeatable-seeming Patriots, with
97.5 million people tuning in (and 105.9 million at its peak) for the game. The telecast may also finish as the second-most-watched event of all time, behind MASH's 1983 finale.