IndyCar St. Petersburg GP TV Rating (2nd Update)
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UPDATE We inadvertently left off the TV rating for the St Petersburg GP, previously only providing the number of viewers. It has been added.
03/12/19 The final TV rating for the St. Petersburg GP on NBCSN fell from an overnight of 0.38 to a final of 0.32, down 60.5% from last year's final on ABC. However, the bad news, and it is really really bad, is that only 82,000 in the all important 18-49 year old category tuned in, down 68% from last year on ABC. The good news is that hardly anyone saw the 13 minute gaffe when NBCSN lost the video feed from St. Petersburg.
82,000 in the important age group is a horrific number, but that is what we have seen for years on NBCSN. Things are not getting better on NBCSN (a station hardly anyone watches), and we can only hope the numbers look better on NBC. The following table gives you the historic IndyCar TV numbers that AutoRacing1.com maintains for its customers.
Historic IndyCar TV Numbers
| Venue | 2016 Network |
2016 Rating |
2016 Viewers |
2017 Network |
2017 Rating |
2017 Viewers |
2018 Network |
2018 Rating |
2018 Viewers |
2018 18-49 |
2019 Network |
2019 Rating |
2019 Viewers |
2019 18-49 |
| St. Pete | ABC | 1.0 | 1.4M | ABC | 0.8 | 1.19M | ABC | 0.81 | 1.144M | 256,000 | NBCSN | 0.32 | 495,000 | 82,000 |
| Phoenix | NBCSN | 0.29 | 363,000 | NBCSN | 0.21 | 343,000 | NBCSN | 0.19 | 253,000 | 74,000 | – | – | – | – |
| Austin | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | NBCSN | |||
| Long Beach | NBCSN | 0.37 | 402,000 | NBCSN | 0.21 | 321,000 | NBCSN | 0.24 | 370,000 | 82,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Barber | NBCSN | 0.26 | 279,000 | NBCSN | 0.39 | 470,000 | NBCSN | <0.20 | 310,000 | 50,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Indy GP | ABC | 1.0 | 1.3M | ABC | 0.7 | 1.0M | ABC | 0.8 | 1.14M | 181,000 | NBC | |||
| Indy 500 | ABC | 3.9 | 6.0M | ABC | 3.4 | 5.5M | ABC | 3.1 | 4.9M | 928,000 | NBC | |||
| Detroit 1 | ABC | 0.7 | 1.0M | ABC | 0.6 | 847,000 | ABC | 0.55 | 751,000 | 189,000 | NBC | |||
| Detroit 2 | ABC | 0.6 | 918,000 | ABC | 0.9 | 1.4M | ABC | 0.6 | 936,000 | 212,000 | NBC | |||
| Texas | NBCSN | 0.3 | 388,000 | NBCSN | 0.35 | 561,000 | NBCSN | 0.21 | 336,000 | 59,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Elkhart Lake | NBCSN | 0.33 | 470,000 | NBCSN | 0.37 | 568,000 | NBCSN | 0.22 | 322,000 | 65,000 | NBC | |||
| Iowa | NBCSN | 0.37 | 534,000 | NBCSN | 0.37 | 534,000 | NBCSN | 0.31 | 452,000 | 78,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Toronto | CNBC | – | 171,000 | CNBC | 187,000 | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Toronto | NBCSN | 0.3 | 530,000 | NBCSN | 0.32 | 489,000 | NBCSN | 0.29 | 458,000 | 107,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Mid-Ohio | NBCSN | 0.55 | 811,000 | NBCSN | 0.39 | 576,000 | NBCSN | 0.39 | 644,000 | 153,000 | NBC | |||
| Mid-Ohio | – | – | – | CNBC | 0.13 | 200,000 | CNBC | 0.09 | 139,000 | 33,000 | – | |||
| Pocono | NBCSN | 0.45 | 635,000 | NBCSN | 0.4 | 618,000 | NBCSN | 0.34 | 542,000 | 110,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Gateway | NBCSN | 0.23 | 359,000 | NBCSN | 0.23 | 391,000 | 76,000 | NBCSN | ||||||
| Watkins Glen | NBCSN | 0.29 | 440,000 | NBCSN | 0.41 | 604,000 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Portland | – | – | – | – | – | – | NBCSN | 0.35 | 529,000 | 75,000 | NBCSN | |||
| Sonoma | NBCSN | 0.33 | 528,000 | NBCSN | 0.33 | 536,000 | NBCSN | 0.38 | 629,000 | 137,000 | NBC | – | – | – |
| Laguna Seca | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | NBC | |||
| Total | 16.169M | 16.303M | 14.246M |
03/11/19 Despite all the hoopla and promises, the overnight TV rating for the 2019 IndyCar season opener in St Petersburg, FL was a 0.38 on NBCSN, down 62% from the 1.0 overnight on ABC last year.
Yesterday's 0.38 is up from a 0.36 for 2013 opener on NBCSN.