UFC Card On Fox Sees Rating Drop 42%

“UFC on Fox 3” earned a 1.5 final rating and 2.4 million viewers from 8:00-10:10pm ET on Saturday night for a card that featured Nate Diaz defeating Jim Miller , marking the least-viewed UFC telecast on Fox to date. That figure is down 42% and 48%, respectively, from a 2.6 rating and ...

Final Numbers Show NBC's Derby Up From '11

NBC earned a 9.0 final rating and 14.8 million viewers for the race segment of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, up 6% and 2%, respectively, from an 8.5 rating and 14.5 million viewers last year. The race had originally been down in the overnights . The viewership mark is the third-best audience for ...

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Overnight Nielsen Ratings

Coverage of the Kentucky Derby and the  NBA led all sports telecasts in overnight Nielsen ratings over the weekend. Fox saw a slight uptick for its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series telecast from Talladega Superspeedway.  The Aaron’s 499 yesterday, which saw Brad Keselowski take the check ...

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Overnight Nielsen Ratings

The opening weekend of the NBA Playoffs topped the slate of sports on TV over the weekend. Meanwhile, Fox earned a 3.4 for its coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup race from Richmond Int'l Raceway, flat compared to the race last year. CBS earned a 2.2 overnight for Jason Dufner's win at the PGA Tour ...

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Record NBA Regular Season For TNT, NBA TV

TNT and NBA TV join ABC in drawing record audiences for NBA regular-season games during the condensed '11-12 campaign. TNT saw its best NBA audience in its 28 years of televising games. It is the second-straight season the net has set an all-time high, and fifth consecutive season of viewership ...

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ABC Again Sets NBA Audience Record

ABC averaged a 3.3 rating and 5.4 million viewers for its 15 NBA games this season, marking the net’s best regular-season averages since ESPN acquired TV rights prior to the '02-03 season. The figures also mark the best NBA averages for any broadcast net since NBC during the '98-99 season, whi ...

Overnight Nielsen Ratings

ABC earned a 3.8 overnight Nielsen rating for its coverage of Thunder-Lakers yesterday from 3:30-6:45pm ET, topping all weekend sports telecasts. The game earned a 13.6 local rating Oklahoma City, marking ABC's best regular-season NBA game ever in the market. Compared the net's final NBA regular-se ...

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NHL Playoffs Up Big On Cable, Broadcast TV

NBC Sports Network is averaging 693,000 viewers for the first eight days of NHL Stanley Cup Playoff games, up 31% compared to the net's coverage at the same point last season. The Flyers-Penguins Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Game Four on Wednesday has been the net's most-viewed game to date this ...

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Final Nielsen Ratings

Fox averaged a 4.0 rating and 6.8 million viewers for last Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Samsung Mobile 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, flat in rating, but down 3.8% in viewership compared to the same race last year. The race did lead all sports telecasts last weekend. Meanwhile, ...

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ESPN N.Y. Remains Leader For ESPN Local Sites

ESPN this month is hitting the three-year anniversary of the launch of its local website initiative, and over the past year, the five sites have combined to average just over 16.3 million unique visitors per month, according to data from comScore. During the period of April ’11 through Ma ...

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