Great news: World Champs on NBC CRUSHES F1, beats Wimbledon in tv ratings!!!

That's good! But how many watched the Wimbledon finals when it was live on ESPN? I think the ABC broadcast of it was tape delayed.

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Miami GP debuts with largest live F1 audience on U.S. TV

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Airing in a window that usually belongs to the NBA Playoffs, the debut of the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix delivered a record live audience.

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The only US based race of the season so far got 2.6m viewers on ABC. That's a much more apples to apples comparison than the average telecast which is on cable at 9:00 AM ET.

Brojos are comparing track to F1??? F1 drew about 350,000 fans to the race in Austin last year. How many fans were in Eugene??

I, and most of my friends, watched online on Peacock because there were no commercials. It was a lot better and showed most of the field events too.

Is there any data for online viewership for any days? If 2.2 million watched on tv, there were probably 200,000-500,00 online viewers

McGlaughlin and Ingebrigtsen are stats. People want to watch stars.

My Pat Butcher "Eugene, where?" thread got deleted. Can I redo it now?

Any podcast ratings information? I know some of them were so very late that it was not easy for many to watch live.

Are you joking? NBC Hollywood still has a stranglehold on the Olympics world wide plus small demonstration support competitions from World Athletics, etc.

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OP is delusional

From day one it was Peacock for me,watched morning and evening sessions and then watched replays.I dvr the nbc,usa,cnbc coverages only just to hear Ato's take.On Peacock no commercials, showed extensive coverages of distance and field events and I prefer the European commentators anyway. Next up Cali world juniors and the commonwealth games.

What a stupid comparison, that was the French Grand Prix and of course Americans don't care. The US Grand Prix is October 23, 2022 in Austin. Bookmark this and come back on October 24th and tell me how many in the US watched and even more importantly, how many attended. I guarantee it will blow your pea brain.

If we look at worldwide ratings, F1 easily wins this. Don’t get too excited

Anything that might prolong NBC's disastrous rights-hoarding is a terrible thing! Garbage broadcast.

If a lot of people watched then there's a lot of idiots who can't figure out how to watch Eurosport. Gar-on-tee 90% of them never even heard of Eurosport and don't know how high 6.21 meters is. These aren't track fans.

It can be attributed to Gail Devers

They also got their ratings without advertising at all, that I know of. I don't watch a lot of network TV, but I saw a lot more ads for American Ninja Warrior and WWE Raw than I did for track and field.

They still think that spectacle is more marketable than substance, but the substance comes through anyway.

While it is good to see that ratings are up, let's not get ahead of ourselves. Wimbledon finals come on in the morning in the US due to the time difference. Takes some dedication to get up at 8 am to watch Wimbledon. No one in the US watches F1. NASCAR dominates that side of the sports world. And to properly put things into perspective, NFL games get an average of 17 mil viewers. It is good that t&f is surviving in a world where you can stream just about any sporting event at any time. But it has a long way to go to get back to what it once was.

Without Russian athletes and their stone cold high jumper and hurdlers, their US expats found no reason to watch. Ratings would have been far higher if more superstars could have made it.

A couple of comments from my non-track friends who ended up watching some of the meet:

One friend heard about the "NFL guy" false starting and then watched a bit. She also has heard about and seen Noah Lyles and thinks he's hilarious (in a good way, I think).

Another heard about how well Team USA was doing and decided to tune in.

same with some non track friends I know. They are starting to familarize themselves with Noah Lyles the way they knew who Bolt(and one of them knew Hicham El Guerrouj) and obviously they watched the day Devon Allen false started. They liked watching Jakob, the jamaicans and the relays as well