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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
College basketball games dominated the schedule of sporting events on TV over the weekend. The men's NCAA Basketball Championship Selection Show on CBS and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Food City 500 on Fox led all sports telecasts with each telecast earning a 4.4 overnight. Both telecasts ...
Tags: Research and Ratings
MLB Net Gets Its Third Best Audience
MLB Network averaged 883,000 viewers for the Dominican Republic’s 3-1 win Thursday night over the U.S. in the World Baseball Classic, which ranks as net’s third-best audience all-time. The audience also passes the U.S.-Canada WBC game in pool play (760,000 viewers) as the net’s b ...
Cable Sports Net Distribution For March
March Madness will begin its third season on cable TV in a few days. Each of Turner's three networks that will air men's NCAA Tournament games -- TBS, TNT and truTV -- are in fewer homes this March compared to the past two years. TBS is in 99.7 million homes this month, down from 99.9 million last y ...
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Fox’ NASCAR Sprint Cup coverage and NBC’s coverage of the final round of the WGC-Cadillac Championship led overnight Nielsen ratings for weekend sports telecasts. NBC earned a 4.4 overnight for yesterday’s final round from Doral, which saw Tiger Woods win for the seventh time a ...
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Final Nielsen Ratings
NBC Sports Network finished with 813,000 viewers last Sunday night for Canadiens-Bruins, marking the net’s fifth-best NHL regular-season audience yet. The telecast also was the net’s best Sunday night regular-season audience on record and best for a telecast involving a team from Canada ...
Overnight Nielsen Ratings
Fox’ NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix Int’l Raceway yesterday led all sports telecasts over the weekend with a 5.3 overnight Nielsen rating, up 6% from a 5.0 overnight last year and even with the overnight from two years ago. ABC had two NBA telecasts on Sunday. Thunder-Clipp ...
NBC Sports Net Gets Best NHL Game Rating
NBC Sports Network averaged 901,000 viewers for Wednesday’s Flyers-Penguins matchup, marking the net’s second-best audience on record for an NHL game, while the game's 0.6 U.S. rating marks the net's highest-rated game on record. The telecast earned a 14.5 local rating in Pittsburgh an ...
Tags: Media, NHL, NBC, Comcast Corp.
Final Nielsen Ratings
Fox finished with a 3.5 rating (5.7 million viewers) for the NASCAR Sprint Unlimited (formerly the Budweiser Shootout) last Saturday night, marking the lowest rating for the event since ’02, when TNT earned a 3.4. This year’s figures are down 17% and 23%, respectively, from a 4.2 rati ...
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
The NBA All-Star Game on TNT led all sports telecasts over Presidents Day weekend. The NASCAR season also got under way with the Sprint Unlimited (formerly the Budweiser Shootout). The event earned a 3.3 overnight on Fox on Saturday night, down 17.5% from a 4.0 overnight last year. Fox' Daytona 5 ...
NBA National TV Partners See Audience Decline
NBA game audiences are down on TNT, ABC and NBA TV through the first half of the season compared to the same point during both the lockout-shortened season in '11-12 and the normal schedule of '10-11. TNT is averaging a 1.4 U.S. rating and 2.1 million viewers, down 22% and 26%, respectively, from l ...
