‘Saturday Night’s Main Event’ Return Draws 2.3 Million Viewers on NBC, Peacock
variety.comJoe Otterson TV Reporter The return of WWE‘s “Saturday Night’s Main Event” did well in the ratings for NBC. The two-hour broadcast pulled in 2.3 million viewers on Saturday night between 8 and 10 p.m.
ET/PT. That includes 1.59 million viewers on NBC and an additional 700,000 who streamed it live on Peacock. By comparison, the NBA Cup semifinal matchup between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder averaged 1.89 million viewers on ABC alone, according to Nielsen data.
This marked the first “Saturday Night’s Main Event” since 2008. That event, which also aired on NBC, drew 2.4 million viewers at that time.
The latest show took place at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Long Island, N.Y., the site of the first-ever “Saturday Night’s Main Event” back in 1985.
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