American culture is ancient in introducing world-famous sports. Most of the world’s famous sports are a part of sports civilization in the united states of America. People were more prone to go to stadiums, sports clubs or sports grounds to watch the live moments and capture real excitement of their leisure times but nowadays it is converting to stay home and watch their favorite sports with just a click on a button away. It is all due to the hectic life and busy routine of everyone who still loves to be part of his favorite sport.
Tv is a great replacement for those who can’t manage a load of work and leisure at the same time on real grounds. They have the same excitement to watch live sports on the screen by feeling the comfort zone of their busy schedule.
The most-watched sports on TV in America is not limited to a single sport these days but the popularity is growing with the number of fans all over the world.
Let’s go and take a peak on most watched sports on TV in America for 2019.
Top 10 most-watched sports on TV in America
Sport is the center of attraction for everyone in modern times. It is hard to believe if someone says that he doesn’t like any kind of sports. Sport is passion these days all over the world among any age group regardless of being young or adult. Everyone can’t be the perfect athlete by taking it as a professional career but most of us have a sense of feeling enthusiastic by even watching any sport either on TV or live. People have different choices in selecting their favorite sport and enjoying it to watch on TV in the season of that particular sport. A common survey has been conducted to know the top 10 most popular sports watched on TV in America for the year of 2019 which has already halfway passed.
Here is the top watched on TV, most revenue-generating and most played sports in 2019 according to a national ranking survey.
1- American Football
American football is the most commonly used term referred to as football in the united states and Canada but don’t be surprised if you hear it by the name of gridiron as it is the first founder name of these sports. This is the most famous sport in the year 2019. Indeed, American football maintained the top ranking in the past few years in America. National football league (NFL) is organizing it well since the origin. NFL is achieving a great victory by presenting its 100th season in the last quarter of 2019 which is going to begin on September 5th, 2019. Viewers will enjoy watching great performances of their favorite top 10 Football players of 2019 like Patric Mahomes, Aaron Donald, and Tom Brady.
The 2019 NFL was the most-watched ever sports on TV nationwide. It is highest in ranking among all other major sports. Most Americans spending their Sundays watching NFL on television in their homes. Super Bowl Sunday is the most-watched and biggest annual sporting event conducted in America. The most famous TV channels (NFL Network, NFL Digital properties, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNDeportes, ABC) released an average statistic for three days for average 6.1 million viewers and this figure passed about 11 percent more than an average 5.5 million viewers for 2018 draft. So the bottom line is the NFL has the highest TV viewership subscriptions in America.
2- Major League Baseball
Baseball is the 2nd most-watched sports on Tv in America this year. It is also known as United States National pastime. As compared to any other sports in America, Baseball is the game of records and statistics. Baseball is divided into two levels, i) Minor league baseball, ii) Major league baseball. The Minor League is a way to attain the level for qualifying in MLB. MLB is the highest level of baseball competition in America.
The Minor League’s current structure is a result of Major League’s agreement in 1903 where it became beneficial for prospective Major league player’s training ground and a refuge for older players at the same time.
The World Series of Major League Baseball is held every year in October. American League(AL) and National League(NL) winning teams play in front of each other for Major League Baseball world series. The winner is determined after the complete seven playoff series by American League and National League.
The season of 2019 Major League Baseball began on March 20th. TV viewers can have their TV sets stay tuned throughout the year to enjoy the upcoming series of Major League Baseball as it is scheduled until September 29th. The postseason is going to start on October 1st and the World Series is starting on October 22nd. The most potential Game 7 would be played on October 30th.
The celebration of the 150th anniversary of Baseball is another add on to the excitement of the thrilling game.
The most important fact is that baseball continues to carry its ranking incredibly strong on TV as compared to other sports in primetime during the spring and summer months especially.
More importantly, baseball continues to rank incredibly strong in the television ecosphere compared to other content in primetime during the spring and summer months.
The regional sports TV Channels that host MLB teams are # 1 in the ranking of their competition with other networks in their designated market area. The most popular Sports TV channel rating like Fox News has an average viewership of 2.55 million. Fox News is the winner on the first night of June for its coverage of Major League Baseball. This is just an average statistic of one sport major channel to present an idea. It can be viewed at the end of the Major year of 2019 to fully compare the final statistics but it is still good to know the viewership on TV for everyone’s favorite MLB
is speeding in the race with popularity among online broadcasts.
3- Basketball(NBA)
Basketball is an important game in American culture and no one can deny the importance of it either in schools, colleges or sports clubs. National Basketball Association(NBA) was established in 1946 and as it turned to a multibillion-dollar enterprise, basketball also turned to an integral part of American culture. The main source of spreading basketball was YMCA not only in the United States but also in Canada and all over the world. American colleges also started taking part in basketball activities later on the highest level. Vanderbilt University became the first known U.S college to build a team of basketball players against an outside opponent.
The 2019 American Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament was held from March 14th through March 17th, 2019 in Cincinnati. It is the second consecutive tournament championship held in Cincinnati. The championship series is held between the Toronto Raptors and the Golden State Warriors. The Toronto Raptors won the best of seven playoffs as the franchise’s first champions and entitled to have the first title as a team outside of the United States.
The highest TV ratings in the past few years declined to a visibly reduced number but it rises in 2019 by giving an average of 8.8 percent. The 2019 NBA Super Bowl Finals average TV viewership was 15.14 million in America. The major channel CBS broadcast of only Sunday’s game calculated average viewership by about 98.2 million people. According to the recent figures, it is easily understanding that the viewership is up 8.8 percent for the NCAA basketball tournament coverage on CBS, TNT, TruTV and TBS in 2019 as compared to the past few years.
If we talk about the total average viewership outside the United States, then Canada won the place of holding the record by giving the average viewership of Game 5 NBA Finals for 13.4 million Canadians and an average of 6.4 million for only Rogers Sports net and CityTV.
It is a record-breaking broadcast that brings in massive viewership in numbers. It ranked in the Top 10 most-watched sports broadcast in Canadian history ever.
FIFA Basketball World Cup is bringing more joy to TV viewers at the end of this year. It is starting on September 15th, 2019. Most importantly 80 teams are taking part in four regions of Africa, Americas, Europe and, Asia which will play regular home and away games to enter for the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 that is going to held in China.
4- Ice hockey
Hockey is a sport that is played between two teams of players who try to throw the puck using hockey sticks into each other’s goals. Hockey is referred to as field hockey in most parts of the world while in the USA, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Slovakia, Czech Republic and, Latvia, it is referred to like ice hockey.
The NHL is the league that organizes the games and it has around 4.54 million fans. The 2019-2020 event of the NHL will be its 103rd season of operation. 31 teams will have to compete in an 82- game regular season. The regular season will commence on October 2, 2019, and will end on April 4, 2020.
The IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 2019 was hosted by Slovakia from 10 to 26 May 2019. This was Slovakia’s second time to host the event, the first time being 2011. The winner of this event was Finland with Canada being the runner up and Russia and the Czech Republic being third and fourth place respectively.
The event was held in two cities Bratislava and Kosice. Around 470,853 fans had seen the event in the Steel Stadium in Kosice and the Ondrej Nepela Arena in Bratislava. About 1.3 billion viewers saw the event on TV.
5- Soccer
Soccer is the biggest sport in the United States, Canada and all around the world. Mostly it is called either football or soccer as the “chess of the green pitch” however, soccer is used mostly in the United States as the distinction from American Football.
Federation International De Football Association(FIFA) organizes Soccer tournaments every year and under FIFA’s governance, it has become one of the world’s most famous sport. According to recent research, more than 240 million people around the world play soccer regularly in America and all over the world.
FIFA stages official world championships are the World Cup, the Women’s World Cup, Under-20 World Cup, the Under-20 Women’s World Cup, the Under-17 World Cup, the Under-17 Women’s World Cup, the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup and, the Futsal World Cup. Additionally, FIFA oversees the men’s and women’s Olympic as well.
The first FIFA tournament was hosted by Poland in June 2019. Ukraine won their first FIFA U-20 World Cup title after beating South Korea in the final.
There will be four Confederation tournaments in 2019, there will be decisions made on future FIFA competitions including the Club World Cup, a Global Nations League, and whether the 2022 World Cup in Qatar will involve 32 or 48 countries.
The Men’s World Cup Final 2019 had increased TV viewership. According to a statement from Fox Sports, approximately 14.3 million U.S. viewers watched the final match on TV, compared to 11.4 million for the 2018 Men’s World Cup Final. It is a great rise as a 22% U.S. viewership boost.
Also, US Women’s national soccer team victory was the most-watched sports event ranked highest-rated soccer telecasts in the history of sport in America. FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 quarterfinals had an average of 6,335,000 viewers on Fox and Fox streaming channels, peaking at 8,239,000 alone. The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 is the most-watched and record-breaking soccer matches on TV in America in 2019.
6- Tennis
The best racket sport in the United States is Tennis that is easily played individually against a single opponent mainly called Singles or between two teams of two players named as Doubles. It is an Olympic sport, commonly played at all levels of society and equally famous at all ages. Tennis is one of the most popular worldwide spectator sport and also played by millions of recreational players.
Tennis tournaments are famous as the four Grand Slam Tournaments (also referred to as the Majors). These popular tournaments are the “Australian Open”, and“US Open” that played on hard courts, the “French Open” played on red clay courts and “Wimbledon” played on grass courts. They became the most prestigious events in the history of tennis since the mid of the 1920s by carrying its highest ranking.
The 2019 Australian Open was the 107th edition of the Australian Open, the 51st in the Open Era, and the first Grand Slam of the year. This tournament was organized by the International Tennis Federation(ITF) remain also the part of 2019 WTA Tour and 2019 ATP Tour calendars under the Grand Slam category. It took place at Melbourne Park from January 14th to 27th 2019. It consisted of events for professional players in singles, doubles and mixed doubles while Junior and wheelchair players competed in tournaments as well. It was the first Australian Open to feature final set tie-breaks.
The defending men’s and women’s singles champions were Roger Federer and Caroline Wozniacki but unfortunately could not succeed in their respective title defenses.
Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Championship is the most-watched TV sports for the series of tournaments in 2019. It hit the best mark in the last seven years. The 2019 Wimbledon Championship had an average of 877,000 viewers, an increase of 30% over last year which was 675,000 according to ESPN coverage ranking. Total viewership is an increase in eleven days out of 13 days’ experience in two weeks’ coverage.
The upcoming event of 2019 WTA finals will take place at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center the week of October 28th, 2019 and this is the 49th edition of the event.
7- Golf
Golf is the most played sport in American culture among mid to old age group. It is unlike most ball games, does not utilize a standardized playing area and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game.
An annual research report is presented in 2019 that consolidates key data points to access golf’s vitality and value among Americans. The National Golf Foundation recently released its 2019 Golf Industry Report that more than one-third (36%) of the U.S. population — over 107 million people in total played, watched or read about golf last year. It is a fact that traditional participation has stabilized in the past few years with a healthy 24 million on-course golfers. This number has been rapidly increased in 2019.
It is obvious from the statistics that the ratio of the American TV audience for the final rounds of major Golf tournaments since 2018 has increased due to an increase in popularity this year as compared to past years. According to the source, an average of TV viewers reached 5.1 million for the final round of Golf tournament for the U.S Open in 2019.
The most recent tournament played in 2019 has won by Tiger Woods by achieving a rating of 7.7 percent.
8-Wrestling(WWE)
Wrestling is the most famous sport in the United States since the origin of the oldest form. It can be defined as the old forms combat that has the history started from 15000-year-old cave drawings in France as well as the early Egyptian and Babylonian reliefs show moves glimpses can be seen in modern form today. It was equally popular in ancient Greece and now holding a prominent place in the worldwide Olympic Games.
WWE originally World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. is an American integrated media and entertainment company. It is well known for professional wrestling as well as branched out into other fields of movies, real estate and various sorts of other multi-billion industries and business ventures. Professional wrestling has been dramatically changed to better fit into television culture by enhancing character traits and storylines. The TV also gave a boost to many wrestlers break into mainstream media by becoming celebrities and icons of popular American culture.
An average TV viewership for RAW gave the number of 3.32 million average viewers while Smackdown by 2.63 million average viewers during the WrestleMania season in 2019.
The numbers may continue to erode in comparison for WWE in 2019 as they certainly figure to be higher in 2019 than previous record-lows and it is more likely the possibility that he people’s Champions could make an appearance with an increasing number of TV viewership for this year’s festivity.
9-MotorSports
Motorsports is a sport that is popular not only in the United States but all over the world, but Americans normally don’t take major international series into consideration, such as Formula One and Moto GP, over in home-grown racing series.
It was a trend for the world as well as Americans to initially began using public streets as a host of automobiles races but with the passage of time, it was soon discovered to be unsafe for the public. Finally, the way to turn it into a proper sport by designating more appropriate tracks such as horse racing was discovered by promotors and drivers in the United States than leaving it a public street sport. Safety and enjoyment were determined to provide better conditions for drivers and spectators than public streets.
Motorsport has been spread to some of the world-known and famous motorsport events especially Indianapolis 500, Nascar, Formula One, Motorcycle and, Endurance Racing.
One of the most popular forms of motorsports in America is the Drag Racing as well and the largest drag racing organization, the National Hot Rod Association boasts a total of 80,000 members, around 35,000 licensed competitors, and nation-wide TV coverage.
Fox Sports covered more than its half of the 2019 Monster Energy Nascar Cup Series Sunday by calculating the average viewership of 4,076,000. It is up by +2% from last year’s 3,980,000 excluding weather-impacted races both year.
The upcoming event of Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be held between October 18th to 20th 2019. Viewers can stay tuned to watch the thrilling series on their home screen soon.
10-Badminton
Badminton is one of the easy forms of sport for all age groups. Badminton is best played and amazing American sports as most of the people play it just for entertainment but if we take a look at it in professional sports in America then we have no name for it.
People enjoy playing Badminton from kids to the elderly age group for keeping themselves as refreshing as other fitness activities and with ease of playing. As it is not popular as other sports in the United States but possessing a huge fan based in the world such as China, Malaysia, Denmark, and Indonesia. Even though it is not in a competition of popularity in America as compared to all other above sports in the top 10 but it is still keeping its place being the 10th most popular sport in the country.
The popularity of TV is struggling in the standing of average viewership like other sports in America. It will give a boost to bring high value among Badminton fans in the coming year ahead.
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