Telecasts · NASCAR

Southern 500

Name: Southern 500
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2020-09-06 · NASCAR · NBCSN

2,430,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2020-09-11

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press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Last Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Darlington (SC) averaged a 1.4 rating and 2.43 million viewers on NBCSN, up 27% in ratings and 31% in viewership from last year's race, which began after 10 PM ET due to rain (1.1, 1.86M) but down a tick and 9% respectively from 2018 (1.5, 2.66M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

2,430,000

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

On the record

NetworksNBCSN

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Prior-season windows

Southern 500

2019-09-01 · NBCSN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,860,000

South Point 400

2019-09-15 · NBCSN · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,380,000

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.

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Southern 500 (2020-09-06): 2,430,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2020-09-11, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2020/09/nascar-darlington-ratings-increase-nbcsn-playoff/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/southern-500-2020-09-06, accessed 2026-09-15.

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