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Telecasts · NHL

Eastern Conference Final Game 1 - Lightning vs Penguins

Nielsen average audience: 1,700,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2016-05-13 Friday
Networks
NBCSN
Teams
Lightning · Penguins
1,700,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
single source · final
figures last changed 2016-05-16

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen1 figure
average audience
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
1,700,000
… NBCSN scored 1.7 million viewers for Game 1 of the Lightning/Penguins Eastern Conference final … Sports Media Watch, verbatim
1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season windows

Eastern Conference Second Round Game 5
2015-05-08 · NBCSN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
1,400,000
Eastern Conference Final Game 4
2015-05-22 · NBCSN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
1,500,000
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 NBCSN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Eastern Conference Final by year

2012–2024
Record
3.3M 2015
This telecast
#19 of 25 Before Out-of-Home
Years on record
11 2012–2024
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
1M2M3M4M2016 · Eastern Conference Final Game 1 · 1.7M2016 · Eastern Conference Final Game 1 · 1.7M2012 · Eastern Conference Final Game 5 · 1.6M2014 · Eastern Conference Final Game 6 · 2.1M2015 · Eastern Conference Final Game 7 · 3.3M2016 · Eastern Conference Final Game 7 · 2.5M2017 · Eastern Conference Final Game 1 · 2.9M2018 · Eastern Conference Final Game 7 · 2.6M2019 · Eastern Conference Final Game 2 · 2.3M2020 · Eastern Conference Final Game 6 · 1.2M2022 · Eastern Conference Final Game 5 · 2.5M2023 · Eastern Conference Final Game 4 · 1.9M2024 · Eastern Conference Final Game 6 · 3.0M2012201420162018202020222024
  • Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
  • Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
37 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:07 UTC

Eastern Conference Final Game 1, every year on record

This telecast: #3 of 3 Game 1 telecasts in the Before Out-of-Home era

Panel + Out-of-Home
  1. 2020NBCSN958,000
Before Out-of-Home
  1. 2017NBC2,900,000
  2. 2016NBCSN1,700,000
  3. 2015NBC1,900,000
4 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:07 UTC
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
YearTelecastAvg audience
2012Eastern Conference Final Game 51,650,000
2014Eastern Conference Final Game 51,700,000
2014Eastern Conference Final Game 62,100,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 11,900,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 21,900,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 31,700,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 41,500,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 51,600,000
2015Eastern Conference Final Game 73,300,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 11,700,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 21,700,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 31,800,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 41,600,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 51,900,000
2016Eastern Conference Final Game 72,500,000
2017Eastern Conference Final Game 12,900,000
2017Eastern Conference Final Game 31,200,000
2017Eastern Conference Final Game 52,000,000
2017Eastern Conference Final Game 61,800,000
2018Eastern Conference Final Game 21,900,000
2018Eastern Conference Final Game 42,050,000
2018Eastern Conference Final Game 72,580,000
2019Eastern Conference Final Game 22,260,000
2019Eastern Conference Final Game 31,900,000
2019Eastern Conference Final Game 41,860,000
2020Eastern Conference Final Game 1958,000
2020Eastern Conference Final Game 3986,000
2020Eastern Conference Final Game 4944,000
2020Eastern Conference Final Game 61,180,000
2022Eastern Conference Final Game 31,960,000
2022Eastern Conference Final Game 52,480,000
2023Eastern Conference Final Game 41,860,000
2024Eastern Conference Final Game 22,120,000
2024Eastern Conference Final Game 32,460,000
2024Eastern Conference Final Game 42,070,000
2024Eastern Conference Final Game 52,080,000
2024Eastern Conference Final Game 63,020,000

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