Golf Channel, Fuel TV See Record Q3

Golf Channel saw its best Q3 in the net’s 17-year history, fueled by its most-viewed September and keeping the net on pace for another record-setting year. Q3 also marked Golf Channel’s fourth consecutive quarter of record viewership. The net averaged 103,000 total-day viewers in Q3, ...

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Overnight Nielsen Ratings

CBS led all college football telecasts over the weekend with a 4.7 overnight Nielsen rating for the LSU-Florida game, marking the net’s best SEC regular-season overnight in the 3:30pm ET window since Georgia-Auburn earned a 5.4 rating in November ’10. Fox earned a 3.2 overnight for the ...

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Primetime NFL Audience On The Rise

Primetime games are seeing an audience increase through Week 4 of the ’12 NFL season, while the league’s Sunday afternoon telecasts are seeing drops in viewership. NBC’s “SNF” is off to its best start since the net acquired NFL rights prior to the ’06 season. The ...

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Cable TV Distribution For October

TBS is in 99.4 million U.S. homes in October as the MLB postseason begins, with the net set to air all Wild Card games, LDS games and the ALCS, as well as any potential regular-season tiebreaker games. TBS ranks second among all cable networks in distribution, behind only The Weather Channel. ESPN a ...

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Overnight Nielsen Ratings

ABC led all college football telecasts over the weekend with a 3.6 overnight Nielsen rating for the Ohio State-Michigan game in the 3:30pm ET window. CBS’ 3:30pm Tennessee-Georgia and Fox’ Texas-Oklahoma State in primetime both got a 2.8 overnight, while ABC’s Wisconsin-Nebrask ...

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AdvoCare To Sponsor Phoenix Race

AdvoCare has signed on to be title sponsor of the Nov. 11 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix Int’l Raceway, which marks the penultimate race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup. The fall race at PIR had been title sponsored by Kobalt Tools the past two seasons and Checker Auto Parts from '99 ...

Jimmie Johnson Tops Sprint Cup Exposure

Jimmie Johnson led all NASCAR drivers in media exposure heading into the Chase for the Sprint Cup, according to data from sponsorship exposure firm Joyce Julius. Johnson had around $60.6M in exposure for his sponsors during race telecasts from the Feb. 27 Daytona 500 through the Sept. 8 Federat ...

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Overnight Nielsen Ratings

NBC earned a 2.2 overnight for the final round of the PGA Tour Championship yesterday from 1:30-6:00pm ET, up 57% from the final round last year. Brandt Snedeker won the event and the overall FedEx Cup Playoffs. Tiger Woods finished tied for eighth yesterday (did not play last two years), while ...

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Michigan-Notre Dame Tops Saturday CFB Ratings

NBC’s Michigan-Notre Dame game earned a 4.0 overnight Nielsen rating on Saturday, topping a loaded slate of college football telecasts for the day, including three broadcast TV games in primetime. NBC’s 4.0 overnight is up 24% over the net’s first primetime Notre Dame telecast l ...

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NFL Net Earns 6.3 Overnight For Bears-Packers

NFL Network earned a 6.3 overnight for the Bears-Packers “Thursday Night Football” telecast last night, marking the net’s best overnight Nielsen rating to date. The previous record was a 6.0 overnight for 49ers-Ravens on Thanksgiving night last season. The net’s other previou ...