Telecasts · NBA

NBA Lakers–Rockets

Name: NBA Lakers–Rockets
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2019-01-19 · NBA · ABC

3,390,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2019-01-24

Published figures

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Nielsen1 figure

average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Lakers-Rockets scored a 2.1 rating and 3.39 million viewers in the season premiere of ABC's NBA Saturday Primetime, down 19% in ratings and 24% in viewership from last year (Warriors-Rockets: 2.6, 4.47M) and down 5% and 6% respectively from 2017 (Spurs-Cavaliers: 2.2, 3.60M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

3,390,000

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

On the record

NetworksABC

TeamsLakers · Rockets

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Thunder–Cavaliers

2018-01-20 · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,800,000

NBA Warriors–Rockets

2018-01-20 · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

4,500,000

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

Cite this figure

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NBA Lakers–Rockets (2019-01-19): 3,390,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2019-01-24, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/01/nba-ratings-decline-lakers-lebron-injury/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-lakers-rockets-2019-01-19, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Before Out-of-Home, since Jan 1950