Megyn Kelly’s audience falls

The NBC news magazine “Sunday Night With Megyn Kelly,” which featured an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, drew the smallest audience of its three episodes, 3.562 million viewers, 38th for the week. Its premiere June 4 averaged 6.197 million viewers, 10th for the week, and its second episode June 11 averaged 3.608 million viewers, 46th for the week.

ABC was the mostwatched network in prime time for the third consecutive week, thanks in large measure to the largest viewership for Game 5 of the NBA Finals since 1998 and its Sunday game show block accounting for three of the week’s 13 most-watched non-sports programs.

This is the first time ABC has had three consecutive weekly victories since the 2016 NBA Finals. ABC’s only victory between the 2016 and 2017 Finals was the week it aired the Oscars. ABC averaged 5.34 million viewers for its prime-time programming between June 12 and Sunday, according to liveplus-same-day figures released Tuesday by Nielsen.

The order following ABC among the major broadcast networks was the same for the third consecutive week. NBC was second, averaging 4.53 million viewers, CBS third, averaging 4.15 million, and Fox fourth, averaging 2.6 million.

The Golden State Warriors clinching 129-120 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on June 12 was the week’s most-watched prime-time program, averaging 24.53 million viewers.

The five-game series averaged 20.4 million viewers, the most-watched NBA Finals since 1998, Michael Jordan’s last Finals appearance.

Here are the combined rankings for national prime-time network and cable television from June 12 to Sunday, as compiled by Nielsen. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish during its scheduled telecast or on a playback device the same day. Nielsen estimates there are 289 million potential viewers in the U.S. ages 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions.