{"id":51508,"date":"2015-03-09T22:16:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51508"},"modified":"2015-03-09T22:16:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:16:50","slug":"pbc-on-nbc-wins-big-in-the-rating-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51508","title":{"rendered":"PBC on NBC Wins Big in the Rating Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51508\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=51508\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50273 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ring-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ring 2\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Saturday night\u2019s debut of the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC was the most-watched professional boxing broadcast since 1998, according to Fast National Data from The Nielsen Company. The PBC on NBC telecast averaged 3.4 million viewers, ranking as the most-watched professional boxing broadcast in 17 years (\u201cOscar De La Hoya\u2019s Fight Night\u201d on FOX, 5.9 million, Mon., March 23, 1998). Viewership increased every half hour through the telecast and peaked at 4.2 million from 10:30-11 p.m. ET during the exciting Rounds 7-12 of Keith Thurman\u2019s unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero. With the victory on NBC\u2019s first major primetime boxing broadcast in 30 years (Larry Holmes vs. Carl \u201cThe Truth\u201d Williams, on May 20, 1985), Thurman improved to a perfect 25-0 (21 knockouts).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The PBC on NBC also led NBC to a Saturday primetime victory among Adults 18-49, with a 1.08 rating in the demographic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe return of primetime boxing to NBC for the first time in three decades got off to a strong start last weekend with Saturday\u2019s PBC on NBC debut,\u201d said Jon Miller, President of Programming for NBC Sports and NBCSN. \u201cWith our next primetime telecast on Saturday, April 11, we look forward to building on the momentum that this first event clearly established. We are excited that high-quality boxing is back on NBC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night\u2019s telecast (8:30-11 p.m. ET) posted a 2.11\/4 fast national rating \u2013 up 174% from the average boxing telecast on NBC from 2012-14 (.77). It is also the highest-rated professional boxing broadcast since the \u201998 De La Hoya show on FOX (4.29).<\/p>\n<p>More than 575,000 minutes (576,435) of PBC on NBC coverage was live streamed via NBC Sports Live Extra to desktops, tablets and mobile devices \u2013 ranking as the third-best Saturday night this year behind the NFL Wild Card Playoff (Jan. 3, 2015) and the NHL Stadium Series game (Feb. 21, 2015). On social media, #NBCBoxing trended on Twitter worldwide throughout the telecast, along with #PBConNBC, boxers\u2019 names and other key terms trending on the national level.<\/p>\n<p>PBC on NBC returns on Saturday, April 11 at 8:30 p.m. ET from Barclays Center in Brooklyn, featuring four boxers with a combined 127-4-1 record and 80 KOs \u2013 undefeated superstar Danny \u201cSwift\u201d Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs) vs. Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs), and middleweight champion \u201cIrish\u201d Andy Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) vs. Peter \u201cKid Chocolate\u201d Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night\u2019s debut of the Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) on NBC was the most-watched professional boxing broadcast since 1998, according to Fast National Data from The Nielsen Company. The PBC on NBC telecast averaged 3.4 million viewers, ranking as the most-watched professional boxing broadcast in 17 years (\u201cOscar De La Hoya\u2019s Fight Night\u201d on FOX, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12357],"class_list":["post-51508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-pbc-on-nbc-wins-big-in-the-rating-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51508"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}