2018 IndyCar TV Ratings down 10.7% on ABC, 12.6% Overall
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| ABC Indy 500 TV crew |
ABC 2018 IndyCar TV Ratings
| 2017 | 2018 | ||||
| No. Races |
Avg. Viewers per race |
No. Races |
Avg. Viewers per race |
'17 to '18 Change |
% Chg |
| 5 | 1,987,400 | 5 | 1,774,200 | -213,200 | -10.7% |
2018 age 18-49 viewers per race on ABC: 316,800 (Compare to the NBCSN numbers below, which are dropping at a faster rate than ABC network TV)
NBCSN 2018 IndyCar TV Ratings
| 2017 | 2018 | ||||
| No. Races |
Avg. Viewers per race |
No. Races |
Avg. Viewers per race |
'17 to '18 Change |
% Chg |
| 12 | 498,250 | 12 | 436,333 | -61,917 | -12.4% |
2018 age 18-49 viewers per race on NBCSN: 88,833 (Are we kidding you? Nope)
As young people cut the cable TV chord Nielsen ratings have begun to measure some streaming content as noted in this article. For now the streaming numbers are minuscule and add little to the overall ratings they report.
Details
| Venue | Network | 2016 Rating |
2016 Viewers |
2017 Rating |
2017 Viewers |
2017 18-49 |
2018 Rating |
2018 Viewers |
2018 18-49 |
| St. Petersburg | ABC | 1.0 | 1,400,000 | 0.8 | 1,190,000 | 0.81 | 1,144,000 | 256,000 | |
| Phoenix | NBCSN | 0.29 | 363,000 | 0.21 | 343,000 | 0.19 | 253,000 | 74,000 | |
| Long Beach | NBCSN | 0.37 | 402,000 | 0.21 | 321,000 | 83,000 | 0.24 | 370,000 | 82,000 |
| Barber | NBCSN | 0.26 | 279,000 | 0.39 | 470,000 | 100,000 | <0.20 | 310,000 | 50,000 |
| Indy GP | ABC | 1.0 | 1,300,000 | 0.7 | 1,000,000 | 0.8 | 1,140,000 | 181,000 | |
| Indy 500 | ABC | 3.9 | 6,000,000 | 3.4 | 5,500,000 | 3.1 | 4,900,000 | 928,000 | |
| Detroit 1 | ABC | 0.7 | 1,000,000 | 0.6 | 847,000 | 0.55 | 751,000 | 189,000 | |
| Detroit 2 | ABC | 0.6 | 918,000 | 0.9 | 1,400,000 | 0.6 | 936,000 | 212,000 | |
| Texas | NBCSN | 0.3 | 388,000 | 0.35 | 561,000 | 0.21 | 336,000 | 59,000 | |
| Elkhart Lake | NBCSN | 0.33 | 470,000 | 0.37 | 568,000 | 0.22 | 322,000 | 65,000 | |
| Iowa | NBCSN | 0.37 | 534,000 | 0.37 | 534,000 | 0.31 | 452,000 | 78,000 | |
| Toronto | CNBC | 171,000 | 187,000 | ||||||
| Toronto | NBCSN (delay) | 0.3 | 530,000 | 0.32 | 489,000 | 0.29 | 458,000 | 107,000 | |
| Mid-Ohio | NBCSN | 0.55 | 811,000 | 0.39 | 576,000 | 0.39 | 644,000 | 153,000 | |
| Mid-Ohio | CNBC (live) | 0.13 | 200,000 | 0.09 | 139,000 | 33,000 | |||
| Pocono | NBCSN | 0.45 | 635,000 | 0.4 | 618,000 | 0.34 | 542,000 | 110,000 | |
| Gateway | NBCSN | 0.23 | 359,000 | 0.23 | 391,000 | 76,000 | |||
| Watkins Glen | NBCSN | 0.29 | 440,000 | 0.41 | 604,000 | ||||
| Portland | NBCSN | 0.35 | 529,000 | 75,000 | |||||
| Sonoma | NBCSN | 0.33 | 528,000 | 0.33 | 536,000 | 126,000 | 0.38 | 629,000 | 137,000 |
| Total | 16,169,000 | 16,303,000 | 14,246,000 | ||||||
| % Chg '16 to '17 |
+0.8% | +134,000 | % Chg '17 to '18 |
-12.6% | -2,057,000 |