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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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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
ABC’s regional college football coverage in the 3:30pm ET window on Saturday led all college football telecasts over the weekend with a 4.1 overnight Nielsen rating. The window featured Ohio State’s upset of Illinois and Oklahoma State’s blowout win over Texas. ESPN’s Michig ...
NFL TV A Mixed Bag Through Week Four
The NFL’s national TV partners are seeing a mixed bag for game ratings/viewership through the first four weeks of the season. Fox is off to a record start with their Sunday NFC package. The 12.2 rating and 20.4 million viewers mark the net’s highest-rated and most-viewed start to an NFL ...
Total-Day Viewership Numbers For Q3
ESPN averaged 950,000 total-day viewers and 1.925 million viewers in primetime during Q3, down 10.8% and 11.9%, respectively, from the same period last year. The net still finished ninth among all cable networks in total-day audience and fifth in primetime during the quarter. ESPN2 also saw a d ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
CBS’ Alabama-Florida matchup led all weekend college football telecasts with a 4.7 overnight Nielsen rating. However, the network’s lone regular-season SEC primetime telecast was down 7.8% from a 5.1 overnight for the same matchup in primetime last year. Up against Alabama-Florida, ABC ...
MLB National TV Partners Up, Flat For '11
MLB regular-season game audiences were a mixed bag among national TV partners in ’11. Fox once again averaged a 1.8 rating and 2.7 million viewers for its Saturday regional coverage, flat in ratings compared to the last two seasons, but slightly up in viewership. The net’s three primetim ...
Fox' NFL National Window Tops Week Three
Fox’ NFL national window featuring Packers-Bears on Sunday led all Week Three NFL game telecasts with a 14.1 final Nielsen and 24.0 million viewers. That audience figure ranked as the second-best rating and viewership on all of TV last week, pacing only behind CBS’ season premiere of &ld ...
U.S. Team Sports Participants Fans Of Olympics, NFL
Participants of team sports in the U.S. are more interested in the Winter Olympics than any another sport, according to data from SGMA. Among 22 major spectator sports polled, 67.2% of team sports participants were interested in the Winter Olympics, followed by the Summer Olympics (65.1%) and the NF ...
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
ABC was heavy on the college football games on Saturday, led by LSU-West Virginia in primetime. That game topped all college football games over the weekend with a 4.0 overnight Nielsen rating. That figure is up % from a 3.4 overnight for the comparable Oregon State-Boise State game last year. ABC ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
ABC's Oklahoma-Florida State telecast on Saturday night led all college football games over the weekend with a 6.1 overnight Nielsen rating. The same window last year featured regional coverage that earned a 4.9 overnight. The net also earned a 2.9 overnight for regional coverage in the 3:30pm ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Week One for the NFL led all sports telecasts this past weekend, highlighted by big numbers for Fox’ national window and NBC’s “SNF.” ESPN led all college football telecasts with a 4.8 overnight for Notre Dame-Michigan on Saturday night. That figure is up 7% from a 4.5 for ...
