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Tiger Woods' return to Masters a winner for TV networks

Tiger Woods tips his cap on the 18th green during the final round at the Masters golf tournament on Sunday, April 10, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Jae C. Hong, Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

NEW YORK ā€“ Tiger Woods may not have won the Masters golf tournament, but his stirring return from injury was certainly a winner for the television networks following him.

CBS' final round coverage of the venerable tourney on Sunday averaged 10.17 million viewers, the highest for any golf telecast since the corresponding day in 2019 ā€” the last time Woods won the coveted green jacket, the Nielsen company said.

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ESPN's coverage of the first two rounds of the Masters averaged 3.3 million viewers, the most for its Master's coverage since 2018, the network said.

ESPN's viewership peaked at 4.6 million just as Woods was finishing up his second round on Saturday, Nielsen said.

CBS led the broadcast networks last week in prime time, averaging 4.2 million viewers. ABC had 3.6 million, NBC had 3 million, Fox had 1.7 million, Univision had 1.4 million, Ion Television had 1 million and Telemundo had 860,000.

Fox News Channel led among the cable networks, averaging 2.32 million viewers. TBS had 1.52 million, TNT had 1.2 million, HGTV had 1.17 million and ESPN had 1.13 million.

ABC's ā€œWorld News Tonightā€ won the evening news ratings race, averaging 7.9 million for the week. NBC's ā€œNightly Newsā€ had 6.7 million and the ā€œCBS Evening Newsā€ had 4.8 million.

For the week of April 4-10, the 20 most-watched prime-time shows, their networks and viewerships:

1. NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina vs. Kansas, TBS, 9.54 million.

2. ā€œ60 Minutes,ā€ CBS, 9.27 million.

3. ā€œChicago Fire,ā€ NBC, 7.4 million.

4. ā€œThe Equalizer,ā€ CBS, 6.68 million.

5. ā€œChicago Med,ā€ NBC, 6.61 million.

6. ā€œBlue Bloods,ā€ CBS, 5.93 million.

7. ā€œChicago PD,ā€ NBC, 5.71 million.

8. ā€œAmerican Idolā€ (Monday), ABC, 5.6 million.

9. ā€œSurvivor,ā€ CBS, 5.583 million.

10. NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: North Carolina vs. Kansas, Turner, 5.578 million.

11. ā€œAmerican Idolā€ (Sunday), ABC, 5.47 million.

12. ā€œMagnum P.I.,ā€ CBS, 5.31 million.

13. ā€œNCIS: Los Angeles,ā€ CBS, 5.26 million.

14. ā€œFBI,ā€ CBS, 4.81 million.

15. ā€œAmerica's Funniest Home Videos,ā€ ABC, 4.76 million.

16. ā€œThis is Us,ā€ NBC, 4.74 million.

17. ā€œStation 19,ā€ ABC, 4.52 million.

18. ā€œLaw & Order: SVU,ā€ NBC, 4.33 million.

19. ā€œGrey's Anatomy,ā€ ABC, 4.21 million.

20. ā€œYoung Sheldon,ā€ CBS, 4.07 million.


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