Telecasts · NBA

NBA 76ers–Celtics

Name: NBA 76ers–Celtics
Creator: RatingsReference
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2018-10-16 · NBA · TNT

2,950,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-10-17

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast / TV only · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Tuesday's Sixers-Celtics NBA Opening Night game earned a 1.8 rating and 2.95 million viewers on TNT, down 45% in ratings and 47% in viewership from last year (Celtics-Cavs: 3.3, 5.60M) but up a tick and 3% respectively from 2016 (Knicks-Cavs: 1.7, 2.87M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

2,950,000

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

On the record

NetworksTNT

Teams76ers · Celtics

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Celtics–Cavaliers

2017-10-17 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

5,600,000

NBA Rockets–Warriors

2017-10-17 · TNT · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

4,200,000

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 TNT, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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NBA 76ers–Celtics (2018-10-16): 2,950,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-10-17, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/10/nba-opening-night-ratings-decline-tnt/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-76ers-celtics-2018-10-16, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950