Telecasts · NASCAR

FanShield 500

Name: FanShield 500
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2020-03-08 · NASCAR · FOX

4,580,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2020-03-11

Published figures

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series at Phoenix averaged a 2.7 rating and 4.58 million viewers on FOX, marking the lowest rated and least-watched edition of the race (dates back to 2005). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

4,580,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksFOX

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Prior-season windows

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5,120,000

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2019-03-17 · FOX · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

4,180,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on FOX, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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FanShield 500 (2020-03-08): 4,580,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2020-03-11, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/03/nascar-phoenix-ratings-low-fox/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nascar-cup-fanshield-500-2020-03-08, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950

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