But the next seven games' viewership ranged from 83.7 million to 89.8 million.
Tens of millions of people will watch the debates — four years ago, viewership ranged from 52 million to 63 million — almost certainly a much bigger television audience than the totals for the conventions.
In the wake of the cord cutting era, where pay TV subscribers are dropping subscriptions and many young customers never sign up to begin with, major sports organizations have been experimenting with new ways to increase viewership, ranging from streaming deals on Facebook and Twitter, to tie-ins with popular apps like Snapchat, and more.
Viewership ranged from 8.60 10.09 million, with no episode watched by less than a third of the total viewing audience.
CIRP estimates that proprietary program viewership ranges from over 80percentt of HBO Go subscribers who have watched at least one episode of Game of Thrones to less than 40percentt of Amazon Prime members who have watched at least one episode of Transparent (see chart).
In addition to a passionate fan-base, loyal viewership, and a range of powerhouse celebrity guests, Paolo and Patrick are also currently working with Robin Roberts on an exciting new endeavor under the banner of her new production company.
Nielsen Media Research, the ratings arbiter, measures viewership through methods ranging from live through live plus seven days, counting playback within a week of recording.
The popularity of the Republican primary presidential debates this cycle – they've been drawing viewership in the 8 million range – has been attributed to their resemblance to reality television.
Now, more than ever, that viewership isn't happening in a web browser, but on a wide range of devices — from mobile phones and tablets to connected TVs.
Our data on average time-spent (or Engaged Viewing Time) is based on over a hundred video executions (on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter) for major brand advertisers with ads ranging in duration from 3 secs to 3 minutes representing a total viewership of 37 million views.
