![]() Game 4 (June 12) earned NBC another fourth place finish (technically, fifth place if the season premiere of The Closer on TNT is counted). Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals earned a mere 2.88 million viewers, and a 1.1/ 4 among adults 18–49 from 8–11 p.m. Out of four television networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX) broadcasting programming on Saturday, June 10, NBC came in dead last. ![]() That was down from a 2.0 for Game 3 of the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals. 2006 Stanley Cup Finals įor Game 3 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals, NBC got a 1.7 overnight rating, with one point equaling 1% of the United States' 77 million overnight TV households. Thus, the NHL also stood to gain money on the deal. ![]() Still, NBC claimed in May 2006 that the ratings were about what it expected, and that it would turn a profit on its NHL coverage for the 2005–06 season. NBC's 1.1 average rating for the 2006 NHL playoffs was 21% lower than ABC's pre- lockout average of 1.4 in 2003–04. More people watched a poker event that particular weekend than watched that hockey game. The May 13, 2006, Carolina- New Jersey game on a Saturday afternoon had fewer viewers than the surfing competition that was its lead-in. The first round of ratings for the 2006 playoffs on NBC were down between 13% and 19% from two years earlier on ABC, and the regular season ratings were more dismal still. When NBC went head-to-head with The NBA on ABC on May 7, 2006, ABC got a 4.3 (500.8 million households) rating whereas NBC got a 0.9 (693,000 households) rating. The NHL on NBC got only an 0.7 rating on April 8, 2006, or 803,000 households. The game earned a 1.3/3 in New York and a 7.8/17 in Detroit. NBC's regional coverage of New York Rangers- Detroit Red Wings to 35% of the country earned a 1.4/3 overnight rating. The regional coverage was down 11.8% from a 1.7/4 for the first week of NHL on ABC in 2004. NBC earned a 1.5/3 overnight Nielsen rating for its first week of NHL action in the 2005–2006 season.
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