{"id":48592,"date":"2025-08-06T03:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48592\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:52:08","slug":"nascar-tv-ratings-from-iowa-race-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/48592\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR TV ratings from Iowa race weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Iowa Speedway drew 2.174 million viewers on USA Network according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/A_S12\/status\/1917220290796413318\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam Stern of Sports Business Journal<\/a>. That represents an 18 percent decrease in viewership from the same inaugural race last season.<\/p>\n<p>It was still the most viewed sports event of the day.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the Xfinity Series race on Saturday drew 1.008 overall viewers on the CW Network. Every Xfinity Series race that ran on time this year has drawn over a million viewers on the over-the-air channel. Some superlatives offered by the channel have been listed below:<\/p>\n<p>Most-watched Xfinity Series race from Iowa since June 2018Viewership up +23% compared to last year\u2019s 22nd race from Daytona (8\/23\/24 on USA)Audience up +16% compared to last Xfinity Series Iowa race (6\/15\/24 on USA)Race peaked at 1,181,000 total viewers from 7:15-7:30pm ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at Iowa Speedway drew 2.174 million viewers on USA Network according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-48592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}