TV Ratings: NBA Finals Game 1 Dominates Wednesday Night, Dips From Last Season

variety.com:

Will Thorne Staff WriterLeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers secured a comfortable win in game 1 of the 2020 NBA finals versus the Miami Heat, and unsurprisingly ABC rode the team’s success to an easy ratings win.The game averaged a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49 and 5.1 million total viewers according to fast national numbers.

While that was enough to win the night, it does represent a large decline from the broadcast figures that the opener of last season’s finals put up.

Those figures are subject to significant upward adjustment once more accurate measurements come in, and the multiple COVID-19 and general TV viewership-related caveats still apply.