CSN press release:

Sixers game broadcasts with Marc Zumoff, Alaa Abdelnaby and Molly Sullivan are averaging a 1.9 HH rating, up 111% over last season.  Sixers Pregame Live ratings have increased 150% over last season, while Sixers Postgame Live is up 33%.  The last time the Sixers have reached these numbers was in the 2011-12 season.

Sixers live streaming, which includes live game broadcasts and Sixers Pre and Postgame Live, is up triple digits over last year.  Over 10 million minutes have been consumed so far this season (up 201%), while unique visitors are up 214% over the same number of games last year.  Sixers Live Streaming is available on CSNPhilly.com or through the NBC Sports app.

Just for some context, there are roughly three million homes in the Philly market, so a 1.9 rating (percentage of households watching) equates to roughly 60k homes. More: The Flyers are currently getting a 2.7 rating and the Phillies, when they were really good, were getting ratings in the 9’s and as high as the mid-teens. So the Sixers still have a long way to go here.

The TV rating, of course, doesn’t include the stream, which as you can see has had over 10 million minutes consumed this season. What does that mean? Very little without knowing the number of unique viewers and, more importantly, the average number of concurrent streams, which is really what matters when you want to compare online ratings to TV ratings. I asked CSN for this data but didn’t hear back.

Either way, Sixers ratings are unsurprisingly up against the dismal numbers they were comping.

I also asked CSN in every way possible – three times! – for a breakdown of ratings with Joel Embiid and without him. I was shot down each time. Oh wells.