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Watching The Two Stadium Series Games

01/27/2014 at 6:01pm EST

STAMFORD, Conn. – Jan. 27, 2014 – The NHL Stadium Series matchups from iconic venues in Los Angeles and New York this past weekend set viewership records across NBC and NBCSN, continuing NBC Sports Group’s strong NHL ratings this season.

RANGERS-DEVILS

Sunday’s NHL Stadium Series matchup on NBC between the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils from Yankee Stadium (1:27-4:30 p.m. ET) averaged 2.079 million viewers and produced a 1.3 HH rating, making it the most-watched and highest-rated single NHL regular-season game ever on NBC, both excluding NHL Winter Classics, according to Fast National data from The Nielsen Company.

The broadcast peaked in the 3-3:30 p.m. ET (1.5 HH rating and 2.299 million) half hour, which came in the second half of the Rangers’ four-goal second period, as they scored six unanswered goals to defeat the Devils 7-3.

Locally, the Rangers-Devils game generated a 5.1 rating in New York, matching the highest rating in the New York market for any NHL game ever broadcast on NBC (Gm. 1 LA-NJ Stanley Cup Final, 5/30/12). Sunday’s broadcast generated the best-ever rating in the New York market for an NHL regular-season game on NBC. NBC was the No. 1 network in the New York market within the 1:30-4:30 p.m. ET time period.

Following are the top five markets for the Rangers-Devils NHL Stadium Series game:

Market

Rating

1. New York

5.1

2. Buffalo

4.5

3. Boston

2.9

4. Detroit

2.3

5. Providence

2.3

DUCKS-KINGS

Saturday night’s NHL Stadium Series matchup between the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings from Dodger Stadium, in which the Ducks shut out the Kings 3-0, averaged 622,000 viewers and produced a 0.35 HH rating (10:04 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. ET), up 139% against the average viewership of 2013’s NHL 10pm ET telecasts. The telecast peaked in the 10:30-11 p.m. ET (0.39 HH rating, 712,000) half hour, just as the game began and the Ducks took an early lead they would not relinquish.

Saturday’s Ducks-Kings matchup produced a 2.38 rating in Los Angeles, the highest-ever rating in the L.A. market for an NHL regular-season game on NBCSN. NBCSN was the top-ranked cable network and the second-ranked network overall in the market within the 10 p.m.-1 a.m. ET time period (behind Univision.)

Following are the top five markets for the Ducks-Kings NHL Stadium Series game:

Market

Rating

1. Los Angeles

2.38

2. Buffalo

1.62

3. Phoenix

1.09

4. Chicago

0.73

5. Pittsburgh

0.66

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