NBC Sports Network to Post Best Total Day & Primetime Viewership in Network History

With New Year's Day approaching, NBCSN is on pace for its best year ever in 2015, according to live plus same day data released by The Nielsen Company.

NBCSN is averaging 151,000 viewers through the first 50 weeks of the year and will finish 2015 with its best-ever Total Day (6 a.m.-6 a.m.) viewership - topping by 6% the prior record set last year (143,000) which included 16 days of live Sochi Winter Olympics coverage. In addition, NBCSN is on pace for its best-ever year in Primetime (8 p.m.-11 p.m.) averaging 366,000 viewers - up 24% from last year (296,000). Among Adults 18-49, NBCSN is averaging 148,000 viewers - the best viewership figure for the network in the demo since 2009, and a 6% increase over last year (140,000).

The following milestones led to NBCSN's record-setting 2015:

Debut of NASCAR on NBCSN
Most-Watched NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on NBCSN
Most-Watched Premier League season on NBCSN
Most-Watched INDYCAR season on NBCSN
Most-Watched Formula One season on NBCSN
Debut of NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL on NBCSN
NASCAR made a solid NBCSN debut as the property returned to NBC Sports Group in the first season of a 10-year partnership. NASCAR Sprint Cup races posted the network's four most-watched, non-Olympic telecasts ever (chart below) and led a calendar year highlighted by seven of the network's top 10 all-time, non-Olympic shows.

NBCSN's Most-Watched, Non-Olympic Telecasts

Date	Program	Viewers
July 26, 2015	NASCAR Sprint Cup: Indianapolis	4.70 million
August 16, 2015	NASCAR Sprint Cup: Michigan	4.29 million
August 2, 2015	NASCAR Sprint Cup: Pocono	4.26 million
October 25, 2015	NASCAR Sprint Cup: Talladega	4.24 million
June 1, 2014	NHL Conf. Final (LA-Chi, Game 7)	4.14 million
June 17, 2013	NHL Stanley Cup Final (Chi-Bos, Game 3)	4.00 million
August 9, 2015	NASCAR Sprint Cup: Watkins Glen	3.98 million
June 15, 2013	NHL Stanley Cup Final (Chi-Bos, Game 2)	3.96 million
June 10, 2015	NHL Stanley Cup Final (TB-Chi, Game 4)	3.91 million
June 8, 2015	NHL Stanley Cup Final (TB-Chi, Game 3)	3.90 million

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