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1981: The series between the Boston Celtics and the Houston Rockets was the lowest rated NBA Finals in history (6.7 rating over six games), until the 2003 NBA Finals drew only 6.5 percent of American television households. Four games of the 1981 series (Games 1, 2, 5 and the climatic Game 6) were telecast on tape delay outside of Boston and ...
The 1981 NBA Finals received the lowest television rating in history up to that point, with a 6.7 rating. (It would remain the lowest ever until the 2003 Finals between the San Antonio Spurs and New Jersey Nets drew a 6.5 rating.) Due to this, the 1981 finals were the last to be broadcast on tape-delay, with weeknight games airing after the ...
The 1981 NBA Finals set the standard for futility, with an average rating of 6.7, the lowest in NBA history until the 2003 NBA Finals averaged a 6.5 on ABC. When it came time for CBS to broadcast Game 6 of the 1980 Finals (on Friday, May 16), the network gave its affiliates the option of either airing the game live or on tape delay (in fact ...
The game broadcast was a live game announcing that gave a play by play. [1] ... 1968–1981; 1997–2002 1987– ... List of historical NBA over-the-air television ...
In the 1979–1980 and 1980–1981 seasons, the NBA had experimented with ending the regular season at the end of March, thereby ensuring that the Finals were played in early to mid May; starting with the 1981–1982 season, a late April regular-season finale was held, resulting in the finals starting in late May and stretching into June (for ...
When the Boston Celtics celebrated winning the 1981 NBA Finals the year after the Lakers won, Bird's beady-eyed stare into the camera looked like it was piercing through the national TV audience ...
The NBA Finals between the Boston Celtics and Houston Rockets was broadcast on CBS. This was the last NBA Finals to be broadcast on tape-delay, with weeknight games airing after the late local news in most cities. Games 3 and 4 were played back-to-back on Saturday and Sunday, May 9 and 10, to give CBS two live Finals games. Game 3 was the last ...
Toggle Winners of major team competitions 1980–1981 subsection. 1.1 Men. 1.2 Women. 2 Player awards (NBA) ... NBA Finals MVP. Cedric Maxwell, Boston Celtics;