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Austin Karp
@AustinKarp
Media reporter for @SBJ. Ramblin' Wreck from Georgia Tech. Sports documentary nut job. Rapidly declining pickup basketball player.
Charlotte, NC
Joined September 2009
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    The Clay Travis-fronted @LockItInonFS1 is averaging 54,000 viewers in Q1 to date. That's -4% from the same period last year and the lowest figure for any @FS1 studio show in the same Q1 time frame. "Lock It In" is -4% among males 18-49 and -7% among all adults 18-49
    New ESPN president Jimmy Pitaro is systemically wiping out pretty much every vestige of woke sports on the network. It’s a smart move because woke sports doesn’t rate and never has. Two latest casualties.
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    Impressive 3.4 million viewers on Fox for Iowa-Ohio State on Sunday afternoon. Beyond women's college hoops superlatives, Caitlin Clark's record-setting game was: 🔲 Higher than both TNT NBA Opening Night games this season 🔲 Higher than Victor Wembanyama's NBA debut on ESPN
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    Viewers did not stay around for the Dawgs' blowout win. ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU averaged 17.223 million viewers for Georgia's destruction of TCU on Monday night, easily lowest CFP title game since BCS era started in 1999.
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    CBS drew a 44.9 overnight rating for Patriots-Rams last night, which was lowest-scoring Super Bowl yet. That figure is lowest for Super Bowl since Steelers-Cards drew 42.1 in 2009. Boston market got 57.4 (best for game since 2015). L.A. market 44.6 (best SB in L.A. since 1996)
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    Chiefs-Bills thriller got 42.7 million viewers on CBS. Best NFL Divisional Playoff game in 5 years. Peaked at 51.7 million during great ending
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    I cannot wrap my head around these numbers any longer. 2.4 million viewers for the WNBA Draft on Monday on ESPN (first time over 1 million) NBA Draft did 3.7 million in 2023 on ABC/ESPN MLB Draft was 744,000 on ESPN/MLB Net in 2023 NHL Draft was 681,000 on ESPN last year
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    MASSIVE number for Chiefs-Bills in the national window 31.2 million viewers on CBS. Outside Thanksgiving/Xmas, best NFL regular season game since CBS' Pats-Colts Week 9 in 2007 (33.8 million). Also: Ravens-Steelers helps CBS to its best regional window since 1992 (19.8 million)
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    Most-viewed sports for the weekend: NASCAR Cup Series on Fox: 4.54 million UNC-Duke on ESPN: 3.98 million Warriors-Lakers on ABC: 3.34 million
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    ESPN is now averaging 2.24 million viewers for the Lightning-Rangers NHL Eastern Conference Finals, up 61% from the first four games of the Lightning-Islanders matchup last year across NBC, NBCSN and USA. Game 4 last night averaged 2.34 million last night
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    Daytona 500's 7.026 million on a Monday afternoon still higher than each Indy 500 since 2008
    .@FoxTV earned a 4.2 rating and 7.026 million viewers for yesterday's rescheduled #Daytona500. ➖ Fox says average rating across the two days was a 4.4 rating and 7.330 million viewers. ➖ Top five available markets: 1) Jacksonville 2) Greensboro 3) Orlando 4) Indy 5) Charlotte
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    Wow. 9.8 million viewers for the Warriors' Game 7 clincher over the Kings on ABC on Sunday afternoon. Best NBA first round playoff game in 24 years and ABC’s best figure on record for any non-NBA Finals playoff telecast
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    Hearing early viewership for 1st-ever @NASCAR Cup Series race to exclusively stream (Coke 600, @PrimeVideo) got around 2.6 million viewers 🔲 2024, Fox, 3.1M, cut short by rain 🔲 2023, Fox, rainout Sunday 🔲 2022, Fox, 3.9M 2.6M right around what Cup Series cable TV races get
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    CBS drew 41.5 million viewer for 49ers-Cowboys on Sunday across CBS and Nickelodeon. Best for any NFL Wild Card game in 7 years. Game peaked at 50.2 million viewers for the conclusion.
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    Top college football audiences for Week 6: Tennessee-Arkansas: ABC: 5.3 million viewers Auburn-UGA: ABC: 4.9M Iowa-Ohio State: CBS: 4.5M Michigan-Washington: NBC: 4.4M Mizzou-Texas A&M: ABC: 3.3M Michigan State-Oregon: Fox: 2.8M UCLA-Penn State: Fox: 2.75M Miami-Cal: ESPN: 1.9M