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The Ticket Top 10

The Musers- lots of Game 7's in the opening round of the NBA Playoffs

The Ticket Top 10

The Ticket | Cumulus Media Dallas

Football, News, Basketball, Sports, Hockey, Sports News, Baseball

4.5683 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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May 4th, 2026

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0:00.0

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0:03.8

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0:08.2

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0:10.9

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0:14.5

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0:16.9

As we go into the NBA playoffs, apparently, it's compelling sports television.

0:23.2

Because if you've seen that number that it's the highest TV rating in this first round for

0:29.3

the NBA in 33 years, now some are claiming foul in that it's different because it's on ABC, NBC, and there's the Peacock and Amazon streaming

0:44.3

factor, which all I know is it's measured this way, and that's the highest it's been in 33 years.

0:52.0

In other words, the league has its detractors.

0:55.3

And the fact that they're on some of these games

0:59.1

have been on high-profile networks instead of TNT.

1:04.1

I know that's, there's traditionally been a difference

1:08.0

in the way those things are measured,

1:09.4

and then you have the streaming factor. So maybe it's not this big jump that, you know, apples to apples kind of comparison,

1:17.6

but I still think that's a really good thing for the league. And for those who think that

1:23.0

the league is in a lot of trouble, I think it still shows that they have a lot of really good things going for

1:28.3

them. Yeah, I don't understand why that would be an argument against these ratings. For example,

1:34.7

the ticket, you know, let's say we have this little transmitter 1310, and then we get on a bigger

1:42.1

transmitter, 967, and our ratings go up.

1:46.4

Well, so what?

1:47.5

We got a better transmitter.

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