Congrats Minnesota. It seems you are big Winter Olympics watchers.
NBC, the rights-holder for the Olympic Games, says the Minneapolis-St. Paul media market is tied with Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the highest local ratings for the Olympics.
Their latest numbers say that 14% of all homes in the Twin Cities have watched the games in Milan-Cortina, Italy. Those numbers were as of Monday this week.
It doesn't hurt that 37 Olympic athletes are either from Minnesota or have Minnesota ties, the second most in the country after Colorado.
It also doesn't hurt that many of them are doing quite well and bringing home some hardware. That is particularly true in curling, cross-country skiing and, of course, hockey.
The U.S. women's hockey team with five current of former Minnesota Gopher players won gold against Canada on Thursday in an overtime thriller. Minnesota's Taylor Heise assisted on the game-winning goal in OT.
The network says Thursday of this week marked the 13th consecutive day where at least 20 million American homes have watched the Olympics, making Milan-Cortina the best-watched games since the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
The U.S. men's hockey team with several Minnesota players took on Slovakia in the Olympic semifinals on Friday afternoon for the right to take on Canada for the gold medal. Hockey ratings for NBC have been particularly strong, with both women and men's U.S. games this week drawing over 4 million viewers.