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Final Weekend TV Ratings (Update)

The crowd gets smaller every year at Barber, a direct result of IndyCar being essentially invisible on NBCSN
Editor's Note: The crowd gets smaller every year at Barber, a direct result of IndyCar being essentially invisible on NBCSN – no one knows the series exists after 10 years on a station hardly anyone watches. Why weren't 100% of races put on network TV like NBC or ABC?

UPDATE We have the final numbers now and they are horrible. All the hype that IndyCar ratings would blossom now that NBC and NBCSN had all the races. That prediction turned out to be Fake News, but then if you watch MSNBC and NBC news you already know the majority of it is biased and fake.

NBCSN earned a 0.19 final rating and 296,000 viewers for Sunday's NTT IndyCar Series Honda Indy Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsport Park. The table below has been updated.

04/09/19 Editor's Note: NBCSN continues to make IndyCar irrelevant with its minuscule TV Ratings. All the hype that when NBC got 100% of the IndyCar races they would promote the series so much the ratings would rise. So far they are down every race. Meanwhile F1 on ESPN is up every race.

Network Event Location Total
Viewers		 18-49
Viewers		 2019
TV Rating		 2018
TV Rating		 % Chg.
FS1 NASCAR Cup Race L Bristol 2,806,000 546,000 1.71 1.70 (FOX)** +0.6%
FS1 NASCAR Xfinity Race L Bristol 850,000 120,000 0.56 0.95 (FOX) -41.0%
FS1 NHRA Finals Las Vegas 713,000 127,000 0.45 0.57 -21.0%
NBCSN IndyCar race L Barber 296,000 48,000 0.19 0.19** Even

Legend:
**Rain, race finished Monday

Historical IndyCar TV Ratings

Venue ‘16
Network		 ‘16
Rating		 ‘16
Viewers		 ‘17
Network		 ‘17
Rating		 ‘17
Viewers		 ‘18
Network		 ‘18
Rating		 ‘18
Viewers		 ‘19
Network		 ‘19
Rating		 ‘19
Viewers
St. Pete ABC 1 1,400K ABC 0.8 1,190K ABC 0.81 1,144K NBCSN 0.32 495K
Phoenix NBCSN 0.29 363K NBCSN 0.21 343K NBCSN 0.19 253K
Austin NBCSN 0.23 341K
Barber NBCSN 0.26 279K NBCSN 0.39 470K NBCSN 0.19 310K NBCSN 0.19 296K
Long Beach NBCSN 0.37 402K NBCSN 0.21 321K NBCSN 0.24 370K NBCSN
Indy GP ABC 1 1,300K ABC 0.7 1KK ABC 0.8 1,140K NBC
Indy 500 ABC 3.9 6KK ABC 3.4 5,500K ABC 3.1 4,900K NBC
Detroit 1 ABC 0.7 1KK ABC 0.6 847K ABC 0.55 751K NBC
Detroit 2 ABC 0.6 918K ABC 0.9 1,400K ABC 0.6 936K NBC
Texas NBCSN 0.3 388K NBCSN 0.35 561K NBCSN 0.21 336K NBCSN
Elkhart Lake NBCSN 0.33 470K NBCSN 0.37 568K NBCSN 0.22 322K NBC
Iowa NBCSN 0.37 534K NBCSN 0.37 534K NBCSN 0.31 452K NBCSN
Toronto CNBC 171K CNBC 187K
Toronto NBCSN 0.3 530K NBCSN 0.32 489K NBCSN 0.29 458K NBCSN
Mid-Ohio NBCSN 0.55 811K NBCSN 0.39 576K NBCS) 0.39 644K NBC
Mid-Ohio CNBC 0.13 200K CNBC 0.09 139K
Pocono NBCSN 0.45 635K NBCSN 0.4 618K NBCSN 0.34 542K NBCSN
Gateway NBCSN 0.23 359K NBCSN 0.23 391K NBCSN
Watkins Glen NBCSN 0.29 440K NBCSN 0.41 604K
Portland NBCSN 0.35 529K NBCSN
Sonoma NBCSN 0.33 528K NBCSN 0.33 536K NBCSN 0.38 629K NBC
Laguna Seca NBC
Totals 16,169K 16,303K 14,246K 1,132K