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Data Shows Brewers Led MLB Opening Day Radio Broadcasts Among Males 25-5405 / 22 / 13The Brewers led all MLB teams this year in the percentage of male listeners (40.8%) ages 25-54 who were listening to radio in the home market and tuned into the team's Opening Day game for at least five minutes, according to data from Arbitron. The Brewers have seen gains over the past two seasons i... Tags: Research and Ratings, Arbitron Co., MLB |
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Overnight ratings for sports telecasts over the weekend were led by coverage of The Masters on CBS. The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series had its first Saturday primetime race of the season, with Fox earning a 3.5 overnight for the NRA 500 from Texas Motor Speedway. That figure is down slightly from a 3.6 r ...
MLB Network Q1 Viewership Spikes
MLB Network was a big winner with the World Baseball Classic, with the network seeing a 146% year-over-year jump in Q1 primetime viewership. The net also saw viewership jump 100% on a 24-hour basis. Fuel TV also saw strong Q1 gains with the help of UFC programming. Q1 was Fuel TV's most-watched quar ...
Fox Soccer Seeing Distribution Gains
Fox Soccer leads all U.S. cable networks in distribution growth since the start of '13, up 19% since January. The net will air UEFA Champions League quarterfinal and semifinal matches this month. Speed -- which is set to be rebranded as Fox Sports 1 in August -- ranks third overall with an increase ...
Tags: Research and Ratings
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
The overnight Nielsen ratings for the Final Four telecasts on CBS led all weekend sports telecasts. Meanwhile, Fox saw a slight increase for its coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway (4.0 vs. 3.9). NBC also saw gains for its PGA Tour coverage. The Valero Texas Open, whic ...
Several RSNs Have Record MLB Opening Day
ESPN averaged 961,000 viewers for its four games on MLB Opening Day, up 51% from 636,000 viewers for the corresponding games last season, which included two on a Thursday afternoon and two on a Friday night. The Red Sox-Yankees game in the 1:00pm ET window led all telecasts with 1.1 million viewers, ...
Tags: Media, Comcast Corp., ESPN, Fox, MLB
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Despite competition yesterday from NCAA Tournament games , Fox earned a 4.5 overnight Nielsen rating for coverage of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race from Auto Club Speedway. The rating was up 32% from a 3.4 overnight for the same race last year. Fox has now seen gains for four of its five Sprin ...
Final Nielsen Ratings
Tuesday's Dominican Republic-Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic championship marked the most-watched sporting event in the Dominican Republic in at least the past 10 years. Nearly 39% of available viewers tuned in for the game, breaking the previous record set for the DR-Netherlands semifinal. The ...
Tags: Media, Nielsen Media Research
ESPN Has Best College Basketball Audience
ESPN finished up the men's college basketball regular season (excluding conference tournaments) with an average of 1.37 million viewers for 135 games, marking the net's best audience ever. That figure tops last season's record-setting viewership of 1.35 million viewers. The audience also is slightly ...
ESPN, TNT Face Shortage Of Heat Games
ESPN drew one of its strongest ratings ever during the regular season for the Heat's two-point win Monday over the Celtics, which extended the team's winning streak to 23 games, but the NBA's broadcast partners may not be able to capitalize on the Heat's quest to break the Lakers' 41-year-old streak ...
Tags: NBA, Media, Miami Heat
NBC Sports Net Up Big With NHL
NBC Sports Network is averaging 448,000 viewers through 27 NHL games this season to date, putting the net on pace to have its best season yet. The net saw its previous high during the last rights deal with 348,000 viewers for games during the ’10-11 season. The net’s average during this ...
