NHL Game Wins In U.S. Ratings, But Look At How Small The Audience Was

An NHL Playoff game drew the biggest audience in Saturday night primetime in the USA.

NBC’s broadcast of the St. Louis versus San Jose game from 8-11 p.m. was the night’s highest-rated programme with 2.28 million viewers, beating a repeat of American Idol on ABC in second place.

Winning the night is obviously a good thing but just think about the size of that audience number.

An audience of 2.28 million would not even have been number one in The Netherlands! It would have placed third in the Dutch ratings on Saturday (number one was the NPO1 evening news with 2.806 million)

And the USA (approx. 330 million population) has 19 times as many people (Netherlands 17.1 million).