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The numbers have come out and it looks like football may have slightly impacted the numbers.
Sunday’s NTT IndyCar Series season finale from WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca averaged a 0.50 rating and 732,000 viewers on NBC. That falls in the mid-range of its numbers for over-the-air network telecasts in 2019, but was a step up from last year’s championship showdown from Sonoma, which aired on NBCSN and averaged a 0.38/629,000.
However, later in the article is a more telling stat with the race average.
The first Indianapolis 500 on NBC averaged a TAD of 5.475 million viewers, up 11% vs. the 2018 race (TV-only 4.913 million, ABC). Excluding the Indy 500, the seven remaining races broadcast on NBC averaged a TAD of 929,000 viewers, up 3% vs. ABC’s four non-Indy 500 races last year (906,000).
So it looks like the finale was about 200k shy of the season average but about a 100k over what they got last season, but the TAD includes all methods of viewing vs the ratings being just NBC viwers
For reference Formula 1 registered another year-on-year gain in U.S. TV audience, as the Singapore Grand Prix averaged 0.37/574,000 on ESPN2, up from a 0.32/469K in 2018.
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