{"id":1569,"date":"2019-06-08T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2019-06-08T01:24:40","modified_gmt":"2019-06-08T01:24:40","slug":"espns-softball-viewership-surges-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"ESPN’s softball viewership surges in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESPN\u2019s college softball coverage saw double-digit viewership growth throughout the season scoring its most-watched Women\u2019s College World Series production since 2015, most-viewed Super Regionals since 2008 and best regular season since 2016. <\/p>\n

ESPN\u2019s coverage of this year\u2019s 15-game Women\u2019s College World Series tournament (May 30 \u2013 June 4) averaged one million viewers, up 20% year-over-year. The two-game championship series (June 3-4) between the UCLA Bruins and Oklahoma Sooners averaged 1,574,000 viewers, up 13% year over year. The Bruins’ championship clinching game-two win averaged 1,799,000 viewers, up 17% year-over-year. Game one of the championship series averaged 134,000,000 viewers, up 7% year-over-year.<\/p>\n

The three games on Semifinals Sunday (June 2) averaged 1,340,000 viewers, up 43% over last year\u2019s similar three-game slate, resulting in the most-watched Semifinal Sunday since 2015. The entire 13-game, round robin (May 30-June2) averaged 962,000 viewers, up 23% year-over-year. Six of the early round games averaged one million viewers or more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Date <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Game <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Network <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Viewers <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sun, June 2 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Alabama vs. Oklahoma <\/p>\n

Semifinal Sunday, Game 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN\/ESPN2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,430,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sun, June 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Oklahoma vs. Alabama <\/p>\n

Semifinal Sunday, Game 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN2 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,346,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sun, June 2<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Washington vs. UCLA<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,276,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sat, June 1<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Oklahoma State vs. Washington <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,261,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Fri, May 31 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Oklahoma vs. Oklahoma State<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,058,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Sat, Jun 1<\/p>\n

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Florida vs. Alabama <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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ESPN<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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1,042,000<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Super Regional coverage (May 23-26) averaged 510,000 viewers across 19 games, the most-watched Super Regional round since 2008, and up 36% year over year. Regular season games on ESPN\u2019s Nielsen rated networks (ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU) were up 40% this season, with the 28 games on ESPN\/ESPN2 (up from 23 last year) averaging 266,000 viewers per game.<\/p>\n

Viewership for the ACC and SEC Conference Championship Games (May 11) was up significantly year-over-year and each saw its largest audiences since 2016:<\/p>\n

SEC Championship: Averaged 549,000 viewers, up 130% year-over year<\/p>\n

SEC Semifinals: Averaged 280,000 viewers, up 177% year-over-year<\/p>\n

ACC Championship: Averaged 480,000 viewers; up 41% year-over-year<\/p>\n

— Courtesy of Kimberly Elchlepp, ESPN<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ESPN\u2019s college softball coverage saw double-digit viewership growth throughout the season scoring its most-watched Women\u2019s College World Series production since 2015, most-viewed Super Regionals since 2008 and best regular season since 2016.  ESPN\u2019s coverage of this year\u2019s 15-game Women\u2019s College World Series tournament (May 30 \u2013 June 4) averaged one million viewers, up 20% year-over-year….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}