WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22 DELIVERS OPENING WEEKEND VIEWERSHIP MILESTONES ACROSS NBCUNIVERSAL

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Wednesday, July twentieth, 2022

WORLD TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS OREGON22 DELIVERS OPENING WEEKEND VIEWERSHIP MILESTONES ACROSS NBCUNIVERSAL

Friday-Sunday Protection Reaches 11.4 Million Whole Viewers, Surpassing All Earlier World Championships Introduced by NBC Sports activities

Sunday Afternoon’s Protection on NBC (2.2 Million Viewers) Delivers Community’s Most-Watched Observe & Discipline Program in 18 Years, Excluding Olympics and U.S. Crew Trials

Whole Weekend Protection on NBC Averages Practically 2 Million Viewers; Finest for World Championships in 15 Years

All 4 Observe & Discipline Packages on NBC Rank Amongst Prime 10 Most-Watched Sports activities Packages of the Weekend

STAMFORD, Conn., July 20, 2022 – NBC Sports activities’ protection of the World Observe & Discipline Championships from Hayward Discipline in Eugene, Oregon, delivered important viewership milestones throughout the meet’s opening weekend (July 15-17), together with reaching 11.4 million complete viewers (NBC/USA Community/CNBC) which surpasses its full protection of all earlier World Championships. That is the primary time the out of doors World Championships are being held in the US and NBCUniversal is dedicating record coverage of the occasion throughout NBC, Peacock, USA Community, CNBC, and NBC Sports activities digital platforms, together with the first-ever reside primetime protection on the NBC broadcast community.

Sunday afternoon’s (2:12-4:34 p.m. ET) protection of the championships on NBC averaged 2.235 million TV-only viewers, making it the most-watched Observe & Discipline occasion on the community in 18 years, excluding the Olympics and U.S. Crew Trials, and up 192% vs. the community’s common viewership of the final World Championships in 2019. It was additionally the fifth-most watched sports activities program of the weekend.

Protection on NBC on Saturday and Sunday (7.5 hours; two afternoon home windows; two primetime home windows) averaged 1.98 million TV-only viewers, rating because the community’s most-watched World Championships since 2007 (2.08 million for one telecast on NBC). All 4 NBC monitor & subject packages had been within the Prime 10 among the many most-watched sports activities occasions of the weekend.

From Friday-Sunday, NBC Sports activities’ monitor & subject programming averaged 939,000 TV-only viewers throughout NBC, USA Community and CNBC. Viewership throughout these platforms is up triple digits vs. almost all comparable 2019 averages.

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NBC Sports activities is presenting 43 hours of tv programming, together with 4 nights of reside primetime weekend protection (July 16-17, July 23-24) on the NBC broadcast community, plus intensive streaming protection all through the 10-day championship meet, which concludes on Sunday, July 24.

Protection continues tonight on Peacock and USA Community at 7:30 p.m. ET and is highlighted by the semifinals of the ladies’s 400m hurdles, the place reigning Olympic champion Sydney McLaughlin and defending world champion Dalilah Muhammad look to advance to the ultimate on Friday, in addition to the ladies’s steeplechase closing that’s anticipated to incorporate three-time Olympian and 2017 world champion Emma Coburn and Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Courtney Frerichs.

Different distinguished occasions tonight embrace the ladies’s discus closing, the place Tokyo Olympic champion Valarie Allman seems to be to win her first world title in addition to the primary spherical of the lads’s 800m that includes defending world champion Donavan Brazier and Tokyo Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20

* Protection on Peacock will begin shortly earlier than and conclude shortly following the listed instances

** Peacock can have all subject finals in full

Dwell protection on Thursday begins at 8 p.m. ET on Peacock and USA Community and is highlighted by the finals for each the lads’s and ladies’s 200m. On the lads’s facet, Noah Lyles seems to be to defend his world championship towards 18-year-old sensation Erriyon Knighton, the fourth-fastest 200m runner in historical past. On the U.S. Championships, Lyles and Knighton offered an epic duel with Lyles edging out his youthful competitor by .02 seconds.

NBC Sports activities’ Ato Boldon following the lads’s 200m semi-finals: “The twenty first of July, 10:50 p.m. ET on USA Community — you don’t want to overlook this closing between Erriyon Knighton and Noah Lyles and the remainder of this subject.”

For the ladies, five-time Olympic medalist Shericka Jackson of Jamaica is the favourite within the 200m. She’s joined by two teammates within the closing: 10-time world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and five-time Olympic champion Elaine Thompson-Herah. They’ll look to proceed Jamaica’s dominance within the occasion towards defending world champion Dina Asher-Smith (Nice Britain) and 2022 NCAA champion Abby Steiner (USA).

Different distinguished occasions on Thursday embrace the primary spherical of the ladies’s 800m, the place Tokyo Olympic champion and American report holder Athing Mu makes her World Championship debut alongside Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Raevyn Rogers and 2022 indoor world champion Ajee Wilson. Thursday additionally consists of the primary spherical of the lads’s 5000m that includes Tokyo Olympic champion and world report holder Joshua Cheptegei (Uganda) and 2022 U.S. champion Grant Fisher.

Extra particulars about this weekend’s schedule might be offered tomorrow.

THURSDAY, JULY 21

* Protection on Peacock will begin shortly earlier than and conclude shortly following the listed instances

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