{"id":25445,"date":"2025-10-22T12:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/usgp-sets-new-viewership-record-on-abc\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:20:33","slug":"usgp-sets-new-viewership-record-on-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/usgp-sets-new-viewership-record-on-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"USGP sets new viewership record on ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">ABC&#8217;s live coverage of the US Grand Prix from the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday attracted the largest US television audience for the event in history, with an average of 1.5 million viewers tuning in to the race-only portion of the telecast. Based on Nielsen big data and panel data, viewership was up 14% compared to last year&#8217;s race viewership. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">The number of spectators set an event viewing record for the 12th time out of 19 F1 races this season, and the number of spectators increased from the previous year in all but two of the 19 races. Max Verstappen&#8217;s victory between 4:15pm and 4:30pm drew 1.6 million viewers, further intensifying the race for the F1 drivers&#8217; championship with just five races left in the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">The race telecast aired from 3-4:45 p.m. ET and averaged 539,000 viewers in the 18-49 demographic, a 10 percent increase over last year&#8217;s race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">This season, all but two races (Miami, Singapore) saw year-over-year viewership increases, and 12 of the 19 races (Australia, China, Monaco, Spain, Canada, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, Azerbaijan, USGP) achieved record viewership.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">The F1 race averaged 1.3 million viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC, surpassing the highest average audience in U.S. television history of 1.21 million, set in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-8yrj4i\"><span class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-body1 mui-xn9in4\">F1 has a chance to score big numbers on the free-to-air network this weekend, with the Mexico City Grand Prix starting on Sunday, October 26th at 3:55pm ET on ABC.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC&#8217;s live coverage of the US Grand Prix from the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday attracted the largest US television audience for the event in history, with an average of 1.5 million viewers tuning in to the race-only portion of the telecast. Based on Nielsen big data and panel data, viewership was up 14% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[19,18,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-25445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-formula","9":"tag-formula-racing","10":"tag-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}