TV Ratings: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Finale Scores Nine-Year High

The biggest Dancing With the Stars season in years ended, fittingly, with the show’s most watched finale in nearly a decade.

Tuesday’s final episode of season 34 delivered 9.24 million viewers, based on preliminary Nielsen ratings (which don’t include the company’s big data component). That’s a season high — easily topping the 7.22 million viewers for the previous week — and the largest same-day audience for a DWTS finale since November 2016, when 10.97 million people watched the final episode.

In the key ad demographic of adults 18-49, Tuesday’s finale scored a 2.15 rating, almost doubling the 1.14 for last season’s finale. It’s the best showing in the demo for a DWTS finale since 2015.

Final same-day raitngs, which will likely include some adjustments with the addition of Nielsen’s big data element, will be released in a few days.

Season 34 as a whole averaged a little under 6.5 million same-day viewers, the…