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NBCSN Scores Best NHL Audience Yet With Cup Final Game 206 / 17 / 13NBC Sports Network averaged 3.96 million viewers for the Bruins’ OT win over the Blackhawks in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Saturday from 8:30-11:34pm ET, marking the net’s best NHL audience on record and the most-viewed Stanley Cup Final game on cable TV in 11 years. The audience ... |
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Final Nielsen Ratings
CBS and Golf Channel were again the beneficiaries of Phil Mickelson’s strong play last weekend. CBS earned a 4.2 rating and 6.2 million viewers for the final round of the Northern Trust Open, which saw Bill Haas win the event after a playoff with Mickelson and Keegan Bradley. Those figures ma ...
Tags: Media, Golf Channel, CBS, Fox
Popular NFL Teams See Success Online
The Packers, Steelers, Cowboys and Patriots are the NFL's most popular teams online and in the social media space, according to an examination of teams' websites and the number of Facebook likes and Twitter followers gained from August-December. According to data from comScore, the Packers averaged ...
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 ...
