By JOE REEDY, AP Sports activities Author
Jack Hughes’ time beyond regulation purpose, which gave america its first Olympic gold medal in males’s hockey since 1980, drew a mean viewers of 26 million viewers on NBC and Peacock within the U.S., in line with Nielsen’s Big Data + Panel scores and Adobe Analytics digital information.
Team USA’s 2-1 overtime victory over Canada on Sunday averaged 18.6 million reside viewers (8:15-11 a.m. EST) on NBC and Peacock. The full rose to twenty.7 million with encores on USA Community on Sunday afternoon and NBC late Sunday night time.
In accordance with Nielsen, it’s the most-watched sporting occasion on document in U.S. historical past with a begin time earlier than 9 a.m. Japanese time.
It’s NBC’s second-most-watched hockey recreation. Canada’s OT win over the U.S. within the gold medal recreation on the 2010 Vancouver Video games averaged 27.6 million. That recreation had a 3:15 p.m. EST puck drop.
The North American viewers when Hughes scored the golden purpose was practically 35 million. The Canadian Broadcasting Company stated on Monday that 8.7 million have been watching in Canada throughout time beyond regulation.
The Milan-Cortina Olympics averaged 23.5 million viewers in america, making them the most-watched Winter Video games since 2014 and drawing a 96% bigger viewers than the 2022 Beijing Video games.
NBCUniversal said the average consists of mixed audiences on NBC, Peacock, CNBC, USA Community and different digital platforms. It lined the reside afternoon (2-5 p.m. EST) and prime-time (8-11 p.m. EST/PST) home windows.
The gold medal recreation in ladies’s hockey on Feb. 19 — when Crew USA beat Canada 2-1 in time beyond regulation — averaged 5.3 million on USA Community and Peacock. The viewers peaked at 7.7 million throughout Megan Keller’s golden goal.
AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics
