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SBD/Issue 29/Sports Media
Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Events
Published October 24, 2008
The following lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports events (THE DAILY).
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SHOW
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DATE
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NET
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TIME
|
RAT/SHR
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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"College Football Countdown"
|
10/18
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.9/2
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
10/18
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:09pm
|
3.8/9
|
| NCAA Football: Missouri-Texas |
10/18
|
ABC
|
8:07-11:24pm
|
3.1/6
|
| Rockstar Energy U.S. Open of Supercross (taped) |
10/18
|
CBS
|
1:30-3:00pm
|
0.5/1
|
| NCAA Football: Mississippi-Alabama |
10/18
|
CBS
|
3:30-6:51pm
|
2.0/5
|
| AST Dew Tour: PlayStation Pro |
10/18
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.5/1
|
| "NASCAR Countdown" |
10/19
|
ABC
|
1:00-1:30pm
|
1.5/-
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tums QuikPak 500 |
10/19
|
ABC
|
1:30-5:26pm
|
3.3/7
|
| "NASCAR Postrace" |
10/19
|
ABC
|
5:26-6:00pm
|
2.3/-
|
| "The NFL on CBS": (regional) |
10/19
|
CBS
|
1:03-3:30pm
|
6.4/15
|
| "The NFL on CBS": Colts-Packers (48%) |
10/19
|
CBS
|
4:15-7:26pm
|
14.2/29
|
| "The NFL on Fox": (regional) |
10/19
|
Fox
|
1:03-4:10pm
|
10.1/23
|
| PBR: Mohegan Sun Invitational (taped) |
10/19
|
Fox
|
4:38-6:08pm
|
1.3/3
|
| American Le Mans Series: Monterrey Sports Car Championships (taped) |
10/19
|
NBC
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
0.3/1
|
| AST Dew Tour: PlayStation Pro |
10/19
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.5/1
|
| "Football Night in America" |
10/19
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
3.2/-
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Seahawks-Buccaneers |
10/19
|
NBC
|
8:23-11:00pm
|
6.3/10
|
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SHOW
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
U.S. AREA
|
COV. AREA
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
"Monday Night Football":
Giants-Browns |
10/13
|
ESPN
|
8:30-11:40pm
|
7.2
|
8.4
|
11,422
|
|
ALCS: Rays-Red Sox: Game Three
|
10/13
|
TBS
|
4:30-8:11pm
|
3.0
|
3.5
|
4,499
|
| ALCS: Rays-Red Sox: Game Four |
10/14
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:20pm
|
3.8
|
4.4
|
5,732
|
| NCAA Football: Florida State-N.C. State |
10/16
|
ESPN
|
7:30-10:57pm
|
1.8
|
2.1
|
2,483
|
| ALCS: Rays-Red Sox: Game Five |
10/16
|
TBS
|
8:00pm-12:25am
|
4.7
|
5.5
|
7,211
|
| NCAA Football: Michigan-Penn State |
10/18
|
ESPN
|
4:25-7:46pm
|
2.8
|
3.3
|
4,291
|
| NCAA Football: LSU-South Carolina |
10/18
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:31pm
|
2.2
|
2.6
|
3,620
|
| ALCS: Red Sox-Rays: Game Six |
10/18
|
TBS
|
8:28pm-12:04am
|
5.4
|
6.2
|
8,928
|
| "Sunday NFL Countdown" |
10/19
|
ESPN
|
11:00am-1:00pm
|
1.7
|
2.0
|
2,402
|
| ALCS: Red Sox-Rays: Game Seven |
10/19
|
TBS
|
8:00-11:51pm
|
7.9
|
9.2
|
13,357
|
THE PUCK DROPS HERE: The CBC's "Hockey Night in Canada" last Saturday, which included a national broadcast of Maple Leafs-Penguins and regional broadcasts of Bruins-Senators and Coyotes-Canadiens in the 7:00pm ET game window, drew a combined 1.31 million viewers, flat with the season average for the first game of the doubleheader. The second game of the "HNIC" doubleheader, Flames-Oilers, drew 696,000 viewers, down from the season average of 835,000 (GLOBE & MAIL, 10/21)....The first four regular-season Capitals games on CSN Mid-Atlantic this season averaged a 1.3 rating with 30,000 HHs in the DC market. The HH number represents a 100% uptick from the first four games of the '07-08 season (Comcast).
NOTES: An estimated 78,765 HHs in the Milwaukee market watched all or part of the Red Sox-Rays ALCS Game Seven on TBS, earning an 8.7 HH rating. WTMJ-NBC's coverage of the "SNF" Seahawks-Buccaneers game, up against Red Sox-Rays Game Seven, earned a 7.7 HH rating and 69,711 HHs. Meanwhile, Sunday's Colts-Packers game on WDJT-CBS in Milwaukee attracted 304,197 HHs, or a 33.6 HH rating (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 10/22)....Sunday's Titans-Chiefs game produced a season-low 20.8 rating in the K.C. market on KCTV-CBS. The rating was the lowest since a 20.7 for Chiefs-Jets on November 11, '01 (K.C. STAR, 10/21).
