In the adults 18-49 demographic, ESPN was No. Baseball Viewership Hits Lowest Mark in a Decade Getty Images/Leon Halip. That, according to a Marist poll which surveyed fan interest in the game. Overall, more than 6.5 million viewers watched a portion of the program. The NFL ratings decline was an important TV story in 2016, but based on the NFL schedule, expect viewership to increase for the 2017 season. Dylan Gwinn 2 Apr 2018. Ratings have continued to crumble for ESPN's new morning show, Get Up! Calling it “the most alarming data of all,” Clay Travis pointed out that Get Up! For the regular season, which ended earlier this month, Nielsen-measured average total … (this excludes ALL the Thu night games and special intl games, and the three Thanksgiving games as all that is tracked separately) Using only Week 16 viewing numbers, 2017 had 78.2M to 2018 82.9M, a 6.0% year-over-year increase for just that week. By adding the extra week, ESPN garnered additional college Bowl game coverage. MLB on ESPN viewership up 2% for 2018 season It's just a data point, but MLB ratings on ESPN went up in 2018, and that could be very good news for MLB going forward. ... 2018. ESPN's coverage of the 2018 Heisman Trophy, which was claimed by Oklahoma QB Kyler Murray, earned a 1.81 rating with 2,928,000 viewers, a 35 percent increase from last year and the most viewers since 2015. 2018 was the first year on record in which no sporting event outside of football and the Olympics cracked 19 million viewers. Fewer people are watching baseball now, than at any point in the last ten years. By Richard Deitsch Media NCAA college football TV ratings and viewership 2018 World Cup viewing intent in the U.S. 2018, by platform Streaming viewers of FIFA World Cup games in the U.S. 2018 (All viewership figures for ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU include streaming viewership. After dipping last season, the NBA’s average television viewership rose to a four-year high in 2017-18. NFL games are averaging 15.8 million television viewers through Week 12 of the season, marking a 5 percent increase from 2017. 1 with an average of 730,000 viewers, followed by USA Network with 510,000 and TBS and TNT with 490,000. Just as a historical comparison total 2018 viewers was about 13.6% lower than total viewers in 2015. ESPN has long personified the cable and broadcast industry's tone deafness to cord cutting and TV market evolution. ESPN has long personified the cable and broadcast industry's tone deafness to cord cutting and TV market evolution. While it wasn't much, Fox Sports 1 was the only dedicated sports pay-TV network to see viewership growth in 2017. Here's the numbers. While video games are getting more viewership from the 18-25 age demographic in the U.S ... Big tournaments have found their way to both ESPN … saw viewership among the important 18-34 year old demographic decline by over 40 percent in just four days. Even in other relatively lean years, at least one event would slip past the 19 million mark. ESPN, using the traditional Nielsen calendar year, shows an increase in total day viewership.