{"id":138874,"date":"2025-04-14T22:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/masters-tournament-viewership-on-the-upswing-final-round-grows-33\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T22:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T22:14:01","slug":"masters-tournament-viewership-on-the-upswing-final-round-grows-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/masters-tournament-viewership-on-the-upswing-final-round-grows-33\/","title":{"rendered":"Masters Tournament Viewership On The Upswing, Final Round Grows 33%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA large viewers tuned in to look at as Rory McIlroy captured his first inexperienced jacket in the course of the closing spherical of the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/masters-tournament\/\" id=\"auto-tag_masters-tournament\" data-tag=\"masters-tournament\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Masters match<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS<\/a> Sports, Sunday\u2019s telecast averaged 12.7M viewers, making it not solely the most-watched closing spherical of the Masters since 2018 however the most-watched golf telecast <em>in any respect <\/em>throughout that point span. The viewers was up 33% from final yr. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tViewership peaked at 19.5M in the course of the 7:00 \u2013 7:15 p.m. ET time-frame, which is true across the time that McIlroy headed into the playoff spherical with runner up Justin Rose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Masters match additionally carried out nicely on streaming, handing Paramount+ its largest non-NFL sports activities day ever. Viewership for this yr\u2019s match noticed triple digit development over final yr\u2019s on the streamer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBS Sports on Sunday delivered the most-watched closing spherical of the Masters since 2018, as Rory McIlroy gained in a playoff to seize his first inexperienced jacket together with golf\u2019s profession grand slam: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72JWrmZ8B6\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/72JWrmZ8B6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports PR (@CBSSportsGang) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsGang\/status\/1911886061732544894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 14, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe third spherical of the match was additionally up 16% this yr, drawing 7.6M viewers on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThis is a stellar end result for CBS after it has struggled in the previous couple of years to convey eyeballs to the Masters. Last yr\u2019s closing spherical drew 9.59M, down 20% year-over-year, although it\u2019s value noting that it aired on Easter Sunday, which definitely contributed to that quantity. In 2022, 10.17M tuned in for the ultimate spherical.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSlowly however absolutely, the Masters seem like clawing their approach again to the viewership of a decade in the past, when 14M watched Jordan Spieth\u2019s win.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A large viewers tuned in to look at as Rory McIlroy captured his first inexperienced jacket in the course of the closing spherical of the Masters match on Sunday. Per CBS Sports, Sunday\u2019s telecast averaged 12.7M viewers, making it not solely the most-watched closing spherical of the Masters since 2018 however the most-watched golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[902,9130,7226,9128,9129,1250],"class_list":{"0":"post-138874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","9":"tag-grows","10":"tag-masters","11":"tag-tournament","12":"tag-upswing","13":"tag-viewership"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}