The Premier League continues to be a winner for NBCUniversal, with the world’s most watched soccer league scoring document rankings for NBC, Peacock and USA Community for the 2023/2024 season.
On Thursday, NBCU revealed that the final season of the Premier League broke quite a lot of viewership information on its numerous platforms. The corporate mentioned that for the 2023/2024 season, NBC Sports activities averaged 546,000 viewers per TV match window, which means that it was the most-watched Premier League season ever within the U.S. Total, the 2023/2024 season was up 4 p.c from final season (527,000), and beat the earlier document determine of 541,000 set in 2015-16, the season excessive lengthy photographs Leicester Metropolis received an inconceivable title.
Boosting viewership little doubt was the title race between Arsenal and Manchester Metropolis happening to the ultimate video games of the season, which NBC Sports activities dubbed “Championship Sunday.” The corporate mentioned that collective viewership for the final day of the season, which noticed all 10 Premier League video games kick-off on the identical time, hit practically 3 million throughout Peacock, NBC, USA Community, CNBC, GOLF Channel, NBC Sports activities Digital, Telemundo, and Universo.
Underscoring how a lot curiosity there was within the 2023/2024 season, six of the seven most watched Premier League matches in U.S. historical past got here within the season simply ended. Furthermore, the 2023/2024 season noticed the primary match ever (English language solely) to prime two million viewers, with the showdown of Manchester Metropolis-Arsenal hitting 2.12 million viewers on March 31, based on NBC Sports activities.
The Premier League has proved to be a boon for Peacock, with the streamer exceeding 1 million viewers for a match for the primary time final season, with a document Common Minute Viewers of 1.15 million viewers for Arsenal-Liverpool on Feb. 4, based on figures from NBC Sports activities. On March 3, Peacock topped the million mark once more with 1.10 million viewers for the Manchester Derby sport between Manchester Metropolis and Manchester United. For the season, NBC Sports activities says eight Peacock unique matches averaged at the very least 800,000 viewers, quadrupling the prior season.
NBC Sports activities added that Peacock unique matches accounted for the highest three and eight of the 9 most-streamed Premier League matches ever within the U.S. In all, Peacock viewers streamed 28 p.c extra reside minutes of Premier League matches this season than final, based on the corporate.
NBC Sports activities has held unique U.S. rights to the Premier League since 2013 changing Fox Sports activities who had held the rights from 1998 to 2013. NBC Sports activities’ present six-year contract with the English soccer league started in 2022 and is reportedly valued at $2.7 billion ($450 million a season) and runs by means of to the tip of the 2027/28 season.