{"id":1948,"date":"2026-06-16T23:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2026-06-16T23:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:36:28","slug":"stanley-cup-final-scores-largest-tv-audience-since-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1948","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Cup Final Scores Largest TV Audience Since 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<svg><\/svg> <span>Logo text<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tThe 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final produced a lot of goals, several wild comebacks and the largest TV audience for the series in seven years. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1946\">What Hollywood Can Teach Harvard<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nABC\u2018s broadcast of the sixth and deciding game of the series on Sunday drew 5.9 million viewers, the most for a game six of the Stanley Cup Final since 2019. The Carolina Hurricanes beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-0 on Sunday to win the Stanley Cup, four games to two. It\u2019s the franchise\u2019s second NHL championship; the Hurricanes previously won in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe six-game series averaged 5.2 million viewers, also the highest since 2019 (which went to seven games). This year\u2019s series was easily the most watched under the NHL\u2019s current media rights deal, in which ABC and TNT Sports alternate years airing the Cup final. It more than doubled the 2.55 million viewer average on TNT Sports for the 2025 series and was up 26 percent from ABC\u2019s last turn in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSunday\u2019s audience peaked with 7.2 million viewers from 10:45-11 p.m. ET as the Hurricanes skated to the final minutes of their title.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1944\">Actor Turned Artist Lisa Edelstein\u2019s Theater of Jewishness<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe NHL has ridden a wave of pop-culture cachet in 2026, with shows like <em>Heated Rivalry<\/em> and <em>Off Campus<\/em> \u2014 both based on best-selling book series in the romance subgenre set in the hockey world \u2014\u00a0helping bring some new audiences to the league. Both ABC\/ESPN and TNT Sports saw improved TV ratings for the earlier rounds of the NHL playoffs as well: ESPN platforms (including ABC) had their most watched playoffs ever (including a stretch from 1994-2002), drawing 2.2 million viewers per game. TNT Sports also had its best showing to date (starting with the 2022 playoffs), averaging 1.4 million viewers. TNT\u2019s games were up 50 percent year to year through the conference final round.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tESPN and ABC are having quite a run in June. In addition to the mutli-year highs for the Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals delivered their largest audience since 1998 with 20.6 million viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=1942\">Bruce Springsteen Dedicates Harry Belafonte Social Justice Award to Minneapolis, L.A., Portland Citizens \u201cWho Stood Against the Federal Invasion of Their Cities\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TV audience for the 2026 Stanley Cup Final on ABC was the highest for the series since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[342,552,988,345],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-abc","tag-espn","tag-nhl","tag-tv-ratings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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