Sunday\u2019s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational was the PGA Tour event\u2019s best figure since 2021 with an average of 3.3 million viewers.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just four games, but ESPN averaged 531,000 viewers for its Spring Training games, which is the network\u2019s best mark since 2008 and up 84% from last year. A Team USA exhibition against the Giants prior to the WBC helped things, drawing 677,000 viewers. Every game in 2026 is now included among ESPN\u2019s top-four Spring Training telecasts since 2016. Looking at locally, through the first 10 games of Spring Training, the streaming audience for NESN\u2019s Red Sox games is up 83%, with linear TV also seeing a bump.<\/p>\n
Leading into the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Saturday afternoon, NBC drew 654,000 viewers for the TYR Pro Swim Series telecast, marking the swimming league\u2019s best figure yet on NBC airwaves.<\/p>\n
NBC drew 1.4 million viewers for Milan Cortina Paralympic coverage on Saturday night, marking the best Winter Paralympic audience on record.<\/p>\n
FloSports saw success with its early season college baseball events — the Amegy Bank College Baseball Series and Shriners Children\u2019s College Showdown. The streaming platform drew around 8 million total video views, with 14 million social impressions and 400,000 social engagements. The best game driving viewership was UCLA-Mississippi State on March 1 in a matchup of top-five teams.<\/p>\n
The chart below lists viewership figures for select recent sports telecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational was the PGA Tour event\u2019s best figure since 2021 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1348,5801,5809,5808,5803,5807,5804,5802,144,5805,5806],"class_list":["post-13624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arnold-palmer-invitational","tag-arnold-palmer-invitational","tag-audience-analysis","tag-data-and-insights","tag-data-sets","tag-espn","tag-flosports","tag-mlb","tag-nbc-sports-group","tag-pga-tour","tag-swimming","tag-tyr-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}