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NLCS Game 3 - Cardinals vs Giants

Nielsen average audience: 3,900,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2012-10-17 Wednesday
Networks
FOX
Teams
Cardinals · Giants
3,900,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-27

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
3,900,000
3.90M Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season comparable

14,174,000
World Series Game 1
2011-10-19 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Wikipedia
−72.5% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

NLCS by year

2002–2025
Record
26.5M 2003
This telecast
#92 of 101 Before Out-of-Home
Years on record
23 2002–2025
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
10M20M30M2012 · NLCS Game 3 · 3.9M2012 · NLCS Game 3 · 3.9M2002 · NLCS Game 1 · 12.2M2003 · NLCS Game 7 · 26.5M2004 · NLCS Game 7 · 19.8M2005 · NLCS Game 6 · 14.1M2006 · NLCS Game 7 · 16.5M2007 · NLCS Game 1 · 5.3M2008 · NLCS Game 3 · 8.8M2009 · NLCS Game 5 · 8.0M2010 · NLCS Game 6 · 11.6M2011 · NLCS Game 6 · 5.9M2012 · NLCS Game 7 · 8.1M2013 · NLCS Game 6 · 6.0M2014 · NLCS Game 4 · 5.1M2015 · NLCS Game 3 · 9.2M2016 · NLCS Game 6 · 9.7M2017 · NLCS Game 4 · 6.8M2018 · NLCS Game 7 · 7.3M2019 · NLCS Game 1 · 4.7M2021 · NLCS Game 6 · 7.0M2022 · NLCS Game 4 · 5.7M2023 · NLCS Game 7 · 8.9M2024 · NLCS Game 1 · 8.3M2025 · NLCS Game 2 · 6.1M20052010201520202025
  • Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
  • Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
  • Big Data + Panelsince Sept 2025
111 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:13 UTC

NLCS Game 3, every year on record

This telecast: #16 of 18 Game 3 telecasts in the Before Out-of-Home era

Panel + Out-of-Home
  1. 2024FS15,882,000
  2. 2022FS14,880,000
Before Out-of-Home
  1. 2019TBS3,650,000
  2. 2018FS14,210,000
  3. 2017TBS6,010,000
  4. 2016FS16,510,000
  5. 2015TBS9,220,000
  6. 2014FS12,780,000
  7. 2013TBS4,830,000
  8. 2012FOX3,900,000
  9. 2011TBS4,280,000
  10. 2010FOX5,040,000
  11. 2009TBS5,040,000
  12. 2008FOX8,840,000
  13. 2007TBS5,160,000
  14. 2006FOX7,510,000
  15. 2005FOX5,130,000
  16. 2004FOX7,480,000
  17. 2003FOX14,290,000
  18. 2002FOX6,740,000
20 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:13 UTC
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
YearTelecastAvg audience
2002NLCS Game 112,160,000
2002NLCS Game 28,950,000
2002NLCS Game 36,740,000
2002NLCS Game 410,640,000
2002NLCS Game 510,310,000
2003NLCS Game 115,570,000
2003NLCS Game 218,430,000
2003NLCS Game 314,290,000
2003NLCS Game 411,340,000
2003NLCS Game 512,640,000
2003NLCS Game 619,360,000
2003NLCS Game 726,510,000
2004NLCS Game 115,230,000
2004NLCS Game 28,470,000
2004NLCS Game 37,480,000
2004NLCS Game 410,020,000
2004NLCS Game 514,980,000
2004NLCS Game 610,260,000
2004NLCS Game 719,810,000
2005NLCS Game 113,510,000
2005NLCS Game 29,910,000
2005NLCS Game 35,130,000
2005NLCS Game 49,780,000
2005NLCS Game 511,610,000
2005NLCS Game 614,120,000
2006NLCS Game 18,510,000
2006NLCS Game 29,010,000
2006NLCS Game 37,510,000
2006NLCS Game 48,570,000
2006NLCS Game 511,120,000
2006NLCS Game 611,670,000
2006NLCS Game 716,530,000
2007NLCS Game 15,290,000
2007NLCS Game 35,160,000
2007NLCS Game 43,800,000
2008NLCS Game 17,740,000
2008NLCS Game 25,020,000
2008NLCS Game 38,840,000
2008NLCS Game 47,710,000
2008NLCS Game 58,030,000
2009NLCS Game 16,860,000
2009NLCS Game 24,430,000
2009NLCS Game 35,040,000
2009NLCS Game 45,640,000
2009NLCS Game 57,980,000
2010NLCS Game 17,130,000
2010NLCS Game 28,840,000
2010NLCS Game 35,040,000
2010NLCS Game 49,270,000
2010NLCS Game 511,200,000
2010NLCS Game 611,640,000
2011NLCS Game 13,350,000
2011NLCS Game 23,020,000
2011NLCS Game 34,280,000
2011NLCS Game 45,650,000
2011NLCS Game 55,460,000
2011NLCS Game 65,940,000
2012NLCS Game 16,800,000
2012NLCS Game 25,580,000
2012NLCS Game 33,900,000
2012NLCS Game 46,040,000
2012NLCS Game 57,110,000
2012NLCS Game 67,620,000
2012NLCS Game 78,110,000
2013NLCS Game 15,450,000
2013NLCS Game 23,450,000
2013NLCS Game 34,830,000
2013NLCS Game 45,790,000
2013NLCS Game 53,730,000
2013NLCS Game 66,010,000
2014NLCS Game 15,010,000
2014NLCS Game 24,370,000
2014NLCS Game 32,780,000
2014NLCS Game 45,090,000
2014NLCS Game 54,890,000
2015NLCS Game 17,890,000
2015NLCS Game 26,570,000
2015NLCS Game 39,220,000
2015NLCS Game 47,940,000
2016NLCS Game 15,940,000
2016NLCS Game 27,310,000
2016NLCS Game 36,510,000
2016NLCS Game 45,830,000
2016NLCS Game 57,190,000
2016NLCS Game 69,710,000
2017NLCS Game 16,330,000
2017NLCS Game 26,760,000
2017NLCS Game 36,010,000
2017NLCS Game 46,790,000
2017NLCS Game 55,230,000
2018NLCS Game 14,640,000
2018NLCS Game 24,650,000
2018NLCS Game 34,210,000
2018NLCS Game 44,090,000
2018NLCS Game 53,750,000
2018NLCS Game 65,780,000
2018NLCS Game 77,340,000
2019NLCS Game 14,650,000
2019NLCS Game 23,040,000
2019NLCS Game 33,650,000
2019NLCS Game 44,640,000
2021NLCS Game 66,950,000
2022NLCS Game 24,840,000
2022NLCS Game 34,880,000
2022NLCS Game 45,740,000
2023NLCS Game 45,390,000
2023NLCS Game 78,890,000
2024NLCS Game 18,264,000
2024NLCS Game 35,882,000
2024NLCS Game 66,272,000
2025NLCS Game 26,051,000

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