NBA Finals Game 1 - Bulls vs Jazz
Nielsen average audience: 24,710,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.
- Aired
- 1997-06-01 Sunday
- Networks
- NBC
- Teams
- Chicago Bulls · Utah Jazz
- Score
- Bulls 84, Jazz 82
24,710,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2026-08-28
Published figures
JSONNielsen1 figure
24,710,000
24.71MSports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
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press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider
NBA Finals by year
1993–2026Record
35.9M 1998
This telecast
#14 of 130 Before Out-of-Home
Years on record
31 1993–2026
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
- Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
- Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
- Big Data + Panelsince Sept 2025
171 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 22:06 UTC
NBA Finals Game 1, every year on record
This telecast: #2 of 23 Game 1 telecasts in the Before Out-of-Home era
Big Data + Panel
- 2026ABC16,930,000
Panel + Out-of-Home
23 earlier Game 1 telecasts
Before Out-of-Home
- 2019ABC13,510,000
- 2018ABC17,670,000
- 2017ABC18,700,000
- 2016ABC19,200,000
- 2015ABC17,770,000
- 2014ABC14,850,000
- 2013ABC14,240,000
- 2012ABC16,200,000
- 2011ABC15,170,000
- 2010ABC14,090,000
- 2009ABC13,040,000
- 2008ABC13,380,000
- 2007ABC9,210,000
- 2006ABC11,510,000
- 2005ABC10,570,000
- 2004ABC15,360,000
- 2003ABC9,600,000
- 2002NBC15,850,000
- 2001NBC18,580,000
- 2000NBC15,340,000
- 1999NBC16,570,000
- 1998NBC26,700,000
- 1997NBC24,710,000
30 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 22:06 UTC
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