TV ratings: SNL gets election year bump
drew its biggest premiere audience in four years, benefiting from the show's usual election-year boosts. Other weekend shows, including the NBA Finals on ABC and Sunday Night Football on NBC, didn't fare as well, nor did the delayed season 10 finale of, hosted by Chris Rock, drew 8.24 million viewers and a 1.8 rating among adults 18-49, leading all of Nielsen-rated television in primetime and late night.
Game three of the NBA Finals on ABC managed just 5.94 million viewers opposite NBC's NFL broadcast, the lowest since total viewers started being regularly recorded in the early 1990s. Through three games, the Finals' average of 6.65 million viewers is well behind the previous all-time low average of 9.29 million in 2007.got a boost from the network's afternoon NFL coverage, with its 10.76 million viewers making it the most watched non-sports program of the week.
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