The NBA 2015 Finals
The NBA 2015 Finals continue to gain fans game by game, and the fourth match that faced the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors in Cleveland presented the highest rating in the last decade.
The average percentage of US households with a television that tuned in to the 2-2 tie at the Quicken Loans Arena reached 11.7%, which is the best average on ABC since 2004, when the Finals pitted Larry Brown's Detroit Pistons against Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers.
Furthermore, ESPN reported on Friday that the nearly 19.8 million viewers who watched the Warriors' victory over the Cavs (82-103) is a 34% higher rating than last season when the San Antonio Spurs and the Miami Heat gathered 14.8 million viewers in front of the small screen.
This good news adds to the ones known in recent days. These data are added to the 12.9% rating of Game 1 and the record set in the second game. There, 18,795,000 viewers (10.5%) witnessed LeBron James' triple-double that helped establish the tie, at that time, at one in a series that now travels back to the Bay Area for the fifth game. Never before have so many people watched the second game of a Finals since they started airing on ABC in 2003.