ESPN’s Celtics-Heat Opener Up From Mavs-Thunder

ESPN earned a 6.6 overnight Nielsen rating for last night’s Celtics-Heat NBA Eastern Conference Finals Game One, up 25% from the Mavericks-Thunder Western Conference Finals opener on the net last year. Meanwhile, ABC earned a 5.5 overnight for the Celtics’ Eastern Conference Semifinals G ...

Indy 500, Coca-Cola 600 Both Earn 4.1 Rating

The Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday both earned a 4.1 overnight Nielsen rating. ABC’s Indy 500 telecast from 12:00-3:45pm ET, which saw Dario Franchitti hold off Takuma Sato for his third win at the Brickyard, was down 5% from a 4.3 overnight last year ...

NBA TV, NBC Sports Net Up In Distribution

NBA TV, NBC Sports Network and Speed have seen the biggest gains in U.S. household distribution among cable sports networks since the start of the year. NBA TV has seen an increase of 3.6 million homes, which ranks it sixth among all cable networks in gains over the first five months of '12. Networ ...

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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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