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The game -- a 116-98 Lakers win -- drew 7.41
million viewers to ABC, according to overnight ratings. The
previous low was 8.06 million viewers for Game 3 of the 2003 NBA
Finals between the New Jersey Nets and San Antonio Spurs.
The number is also a 45 percent drop compared to the audience
for last year's Finals opener between the Toronto Raptors and
Golden State Warriors.
On the plus side, the ABC broadcast still led all shows in total
viewers, and drew the same rating among 18-49-year-olds that it
drew for the Oscars.
As for the night's big winner, Week 2 of Fox's "The Masked
Singer" was up double-digit percentage points from Week 1's
ratings, both overall and among adults 18-49. The raw audience
number for "The Masked Singer" wasn't too far behind the Finals,
at 6.93 million.
The numbers come two weeks after MoffettNathanson Research found
that overall TV viewership was down 26 percent year over year in
August and down 27.1 percent through the first half of
September.
The Stanley Cup Finals were down more than 60 percent, as well,
this year.
Game 2 will be played Friday night, from the NBA's bubble near
Orlando.
--Field Level Media
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