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NBA Raptors–Celtics

Name: NBA Raptors–Celtics
Creator: RatingsReference
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2018-11-16 · NBA · ESPN

1,820,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2018-11-21

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

ESPN scored a 1.1 rating and 1.82 million viewers for Friday's Raptors-Celtics NBA regular season game, flat in ratings and up 7% in viewership from last year (Thunder-Spurs: 1.1, 1.70M) but down 8% and 7% respectively from Warriors-Celtics in 2016 (1.2, 1.96M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

1,820,000

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

On the record

NetworksESPN

TeamsCeltics · Raptors

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Pelicans–Nuggets

2017-11-17 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,350,000

NBA Thunder–Spurs

2017-11-17 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,700,000

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

Cite this figure

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NBA Raptors–Celtics (2018-11-16): 1,820,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2018-11-21, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2018/11/nfl-ratings-cbs-nba-espn-lpga/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-celtics-raptors-2018-11-16, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950