TV News: Weekend USA TV Ratings
Last weekend’s TV numbers are in and here are the highlights:
- NASCAR was down across all 3 series on FS1 compared to last year
- IndyCar was up a whopping 204% on NBC, but that is because last year’s race was on NBCSN – a channel hardly anyone watched and delivered horrible ratings for IndyCar for 10 years straight. Something we harped on IndyCar for 10 straight years. Made the series nearly invisible.
- Supercross was up a nice 25% on NBC over the same week last year, also on NBC but from Houston
- The F1 race on ESPN from Australia ran at 1:00am in the morning, so ESPN2 aired a replay at 9:00am. The combined viewers and rating was up 15.0% over 2019 – the last time the race ran. Most important for F1 was that it garnered more viewers in the all-important 18-49 age bracket than both the NASCAR Cup race and the IndyCar race, indicating F1 continues to attract a much younger fan than NASCAR and IndyCar.
- 50.9% of F1 viewers are 18-49 in age
- 21.6% of NASCAR viewers are 18-49 in age
- 27.9% of IndyCar viewers are 18-49 in age
Weekend TV Ratings
| Network | Event | Location | Total Viewers | 18-49 Viewers | 2022 TV Rating | Previous TV Rating | % Chg |
| FS1 | NASCAR Cup Race L | Martinsville | 1,855,000 | 401,000 | 1.10 | 1.37 | -19.7% |
| NBC | IndyCar Race L | Long Beach | 1,055,000 | 294,000 | 0.64 | *0.21 | +204% |
| FS1 | NASCAR Xfinity Race L | Martinsville | 854,000 | 193,000 | 0.51 | 0.55 | -7.3% |
| NBC | Supercross | St. Louis | 603,000 | 188,000 | 0.40 | 0.32 | +25.0% |
| ESPN/ESPN2 | F1 Race | Melbourne, Aus | 791,000 | 403,000 | 0.46 | 0.40 | +15.0% |
| NBC | MotoGP Race L | COTA -Austin | 534,000 | 173,000 | 0.35 | – | – |
| FS1 | NASCAR Truck Race L | Martinsville | 455,000 | 111,000 | 0.29 | 0.42 | -30.9% |
*NBCSN Race
**Combined ESPN and ESPN2 numbers. Previous race run in 2019