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Western Conference Final Game 5 - Oilers vs Stars

Nielsen average audience: 1,570,000 viewers (final), per Sports Media Watch.

Aired
2025-05-29 Thursday
Networks
ESPN
Teams
Oilers · Stars
1,570,000
Nielsen avg audience · via press
multiple sources · 2 sources · final
figures last changed 2025-06-04

Published figures

JSON
Nielsen2 figures
via pressaverage audienceLead figure
full telecast · final
press-attributed · Sports Media Watch
1,570,000
Thursday's Oilers-Stars NHL Western Conference Final Game 5 averaged 1.57 million viewers on ESPN, down 3% from the same matchup last year, which aired on TNT Sports (1.62M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim
via pressaverage audience
full telecast · preliminary
press-attributed · The TV Ratings Guide
1,570,000
NHL Playoffs: Oilers v. Stars ESPN 0.45 1.57 The TV Ratings Guide, verbatim
2 press attributions · no provider-published figure · multiple sources
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

Prior-season comparable

2,080,000
Eastern Conference Final Game 5
2024-05-30 · ESPN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch
−24.5% vs the comparable
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ESPN, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Western Conference Final by year

2009–2025
Record
4.6M 2015
This telecast
#9 of 13 Panel + Out-of-Home
Years on record
12 2009–2025
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
2M4M6M2025 · Western Conference Final Game 5 · 1.6M2009 · Western Conference Final Game 2 · 1.7M2014 · Western Conference Final Game 7 · 4.1M2015 · Western Conference Final Game 7 · 4.6M2016 · Western Conference Final Game 4 · 2.3M2017 · Western Conference Final Game 5 · 2.4M2018 · Western Conference Final Game 3 · 1.4M2019 · Western Conference Final Game 1 · 2.1M2020 · Western Conference Final Game 4 · 1.7M2022 · Western Conference Final Game 1 · 1.8M2023 · Western Conference Final Game 5 · 2.0M2024 · Western Conference Final Game 6 · 2.0M2025 · Western Conference Final Game 5 · 1.6M2010201520202025
  • Before Out-of-Homebefore Sept 2020
  • Panel + Out-of-HomeSept 2020 – Sept 2025
38 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:16 UTC

Western Conference Final Game 5, every year on record

This telecast: #3 of 4 Game 5 telecasts in the Panel + Out-of-Home era

Panel + Out-of-Home
  1. 2025ESPN1,570,000
  2. 2024TNT · truTV · HBO Max1,620,000
  3. 2023ABC1,960,000
  4. 2020NBCSN829,000
Before Out-of-Home
  1. 2019NBC1,810,000
  2. 2017NBC2,400,000
  3. 2015NBCSN2,100,000
  4. 2014NBCSN2,200,000
8 eligible telecasts · computed 2026-10-30 23:16 UTC
Nielsen average audience · each year's most-watched telecast on the line, the others in gray
YearTelecastAvg audience
2009Western Conference Final Game 21,700,000
2014Western Conference Final Game 12,200,000
2014Western Conference Final Game 52,200,000
2014Western Conference Final Game 74,100,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 12,100,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 21,700,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 31,800,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 42,800,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 52,100,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 62,400,000
2015Western Conference Final Game 74,600,000
2016Western Conference Final Game 21,100,000
2016Western Conference Final Game 31,200,000
2016Western Conference Final Game 42,300,000
2017Western Conference Final Game 1856,000
2017Western Conference Final Game 21,300,000
2017Western Conference Final Game 31,100,000
2017Western Conference Final Game 41,300,000
2017Western Conference Final Game 52,400,000
2018Western Conference Final Game 31,390,000
2019Western Conference Final Game 12,090,000
2019Western Conference Final Game 31,389,000
2019Western Conference Final Game 41,370,000
2019Western Conference Final Game 51,810,000
2019Western Conference Final Game 61,810,000
2020Western Conference Final Game 3790,000
2020Western Conference Final Game 41,680,000
2020Western Conference Final Game 5829,000
2022Western Conference Final Game 11,820,000
2023Western Conference Final Game 21,620,000
2023Western Conference Final Game 51,960,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 11,540,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 21,540,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 31,760,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 41,820,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 51,620,000
2024Western Conference Final Game 61,980,000
2025Western Conference Final Game 51,570,000

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