{"id":681654,"date":"2026-05-20T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:10:08","slug":"2026-nba-playoffs-deliver-highest-viewership-through-conference-semifinals-in-29-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/681654\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NBA Playoffs deliver highest viewership through Conference Semifinals in 29 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Chasing History: Eastern Conference Semifinals<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Take an all-access look at the Eastern Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Playoffs are delivering their highest viewership through the Conference Semifinals in 29 years, with an average of 4.5 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN, NBC\/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Following last night\u2019s double-overtime thriller to open the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/west-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Western Conference Finals<\/a>, Game 1 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/playoffs\/2026\/east-final\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eastern Conference Finals<\/a> tips off tonight with the New York Knicks hosting the Cleveland Cavaliers at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The NBA Playoffs are delivering their highest viewership through the Conference Semifinals in 29 years, with an average of 4.5 million viewers per game across ABC, ESPN, NBC\/Peacock and Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Following last night\u2019s double-overtime thriller to open the Western\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HTkhmuDiyZ\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/HTkhmuDiyZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/2056841358191513609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chasing History: Eastern Conference Semifinals Take an all-access look at the Eastern Conference Semifinals. The NBA Playoffs are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,250146,82],"class_list":["post-681654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-nba-playoff-viewership","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681654","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=681654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}