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Outdoor Channel Sees Network Record For Distribution As Ownership Fight Continues05 / 08 / 13Outdoor Channel is in a network-record 39.8 million U.S. homes in May, as Kroenke Sports & Entertainment and InterMedia -- owner of The Sportsman Channel -- battle for control of the network . The figure tops the record set last month (39.5 million). The Weather Channel continues to lead all U... Tags: Research and Ratings |
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
The NBA and NASCAR’s Budweiser Shootout led overnight ratings among weekend sports telecasts. CBS also got a boost from a playoff finish at the PGA Tour Northern Trust Open. Yesterday’s final round from 3:00-7:15pm ET got a 4.1 overnight for Bill Haas’ win over Phil Micke ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Weekend sports telecasts were led by CBS’ coverage of yesterday's final round of the PGA Tour AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am , which got its best overnight in 15 years. ESPN was the beneficiary of the rise of Knicks G Jeremy Lin on Friday night, as the Lakers-Knicks matchup ...
Final Nielsen Ratings
Counter-programming during the Super Bowl last Sunday was led by CBS on broadcast TV. The net had the most-viewed program up against the game (4.0 million viewers) with a special “60 Minutes” in the 8:00pm ET window featuring interviews with Vogue Editor Anna Wintour, singer Dolly Parto ...
Tags: Media, Nielsen Media Research
Cable Sports Net Viewership For January
ESPN averaged 3.7 million viewers in primetime in January, giving the net a win among all cable nets for the month. But the number was down 5% from the net’s average during the same period last year. ESPN’s next closest primetime competition for the month was USA Network, which aver ...
NBA TV Sees U.S. Distribution Growth
NBA TV saw the biggest month-over-month gains in U.S. TV homes among all cable nets from January to February. The league-owned net is in 59.2 million homes for the month, up 6% from 55.8 million last month. NFL Network ranked in the top five in month-over-month gains, up 1.9% to 59.2 ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Coverage of all things Super Bowl led the weekend’s sports TV overnights, with the Super Bowl getting its third-best overnight on record . CBS’ coverage of the final round of the PGA Tour Waste Management Phoenix Open led all non-NFL overnights with a 2.0 rating for Kyle Stanley’ ...
Final Nielsen Ratings
Clippers games are showing strong ratings and viewership at the start of the season for both national and local telecasts. NBA TV has shown six Clippers games thus far, with three of those games ranking as the net’s three most-viewed regular-season telecasts ever. The Jan. 14 Lakers-Clippers c ...
Tags: Media, Nielsen Media Research
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
The NFL Pro Bowl on NBC led all sports telecasts over the weekend with a 7.9 overnight Nielsen rating. However, that figure is down 8% from an 8.6 rating for the game on Fox last year. ABC Sunday afternoon aired its first NBA game since Christmas Day, with the Bulls-Heat matchup earning a ...
NHL Viewership Up On NBC Sports Network
NBC Sports Network has seen an 11% jump in viewers for its NHL game broadcasts so far this season as the net ramps up the number of contests it televises. Through 44 telecasts, the net is averaging 326,000 viewers, up from 293,000 viewers through the same period last year, when only 31 games had bee ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Weekend sports telecasts were led by the NFL Conference Championships , which earned big numbers once again. Outside of football, the weekend was led by a 1.7 overnight earned by both ESPN's T'Wolves-Clippers on Friday night and the net's Syracuse-Notre Dame men's basketball game on Saturday night ...
