{"id":380377,"date":"2025-12-31T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380377\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T20:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T20:10:07","slug":"nba-christmas-viewership-hits-15-year-high-with-47m-viewers-and-social-media-numbers-set-records-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/380377\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Christmas viewership hits 15-year high with 47M viewers. And social media numbers set records :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA saw its best Christmas Day viewership numbers in 15 years, the league announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 47 million people in the U.S. watched at least some of the five-game slate on ABC and ESPN, which represents a 45% increase over last year. And there was an average of 5.5 million viewers for the games, up 4% from a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Cleveland-New York game was the most-watched Christmas game ever that started at noon Eastern, with an average of 6.4 million viewers. The San Antonio-Oklahoma City game was the most-watched in the 2:30 p.m. Christmas timeslot since 2017 and the Dallas-Golden State game was the most-watched in the 5 p.m. timeslot since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the league said it was the \u201cmost-viewed brand across social media\u201d on Christmas, with its content generating 1.6 billion views. That&#8217;s up 23% over Christmas 2024.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 The NBA saw its best Christmas Day viewership numbers in 15 years, the league&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[174498,160359,157795,2724,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-380377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ap-entertainment","9":"tag-ap-sports","10":"tag-ap-u-s-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}