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SBD/Issue 122/Sports Media
Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts
Published March 13, 2009
The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts (THE DAILY).
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
RAT/SHR
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
"Race to March Madness"
|
3/7
|
ABC
|
2:30-3:30pm
|
0.4/-
|
|
NCAA Basketball: (regional)
|
3/7
|
ABC
|
3:30-5:40pm
|
1.0/3
|
| NCAA Basketball: Connecticut-Pittsburgh |
3/7
|
CBS
|
12:00-2:06pm
|
1.3/4
|
| NCAA Basketball: (regional) |
3/7
|
CBS
|
2:06-4:08pm
|
1.2/3
|
| NCAA Basketball: Texas-Kansas |
3/7
|
CBS
|
4:08-6:20pm
|
1.3/3
|
| Visa Snowboard Cross World Cup (taped) |
3/7
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.5/1
|
| PGA Tour: Honda Classic: Third Round |
3/7
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.2/3
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
3/8
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:26pm
|
0.8/-
|
| NBA: Suns-Spurs |
3/8
|
ABC
|
3:26-6:04pm
|
1.6/4
|
| NCAA Basketball: (regional) |
3/8
|
CBS
|
12:00-2:23pm
|
1.4/4
|
| NCAA Basketball: MVC Championship: Northern Iowa-Illinois State |
3/8
|
CBS
|
2:23-4:20pm
|
1.3/3
|
| NCAA Basketball: Duke-North Carolina |
3/8
|
CBS
|
4:20-6:16pm
|
2.9/6
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kobalt Tools 500 |
3/8
|
Fox
|
2:19-6:24pm
|
5.5/12
|
| NHL: Bruins-Rangers |
3/8
|
NBC
|
12:30-3:09pm
|
0.8/2
|
| PGA Tour: Honda Classic: Final Round |
3/8
|
NBC
|
3:09-6:05pm
|
1.5/3
|
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
U.S.
|
CABLE
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
NCAA Basketball:
North Carolina-Virginia Tech |
3/4
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:01pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,732
|
| NBA: Spurs-Mavericks |
3/4
|
ESPN
|
9:01-11:37pm
|
1.0
|
1.2
|
1,473
|
| NBA: Mavericks-Hornets |
3/5
|
TNT
|
8:16-10:46pm
|
1.0
|
1.2
|
1,513
|
| NBA: Trail Blazers-Nuggets |
3/5
|
TNT
|
10:46pm-1:17am
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
1,359
|
| NBA: Cavaliers-Celtics |
3/6
|
ESPN
|
8:01-10:40pm
|
1.7
|
2.0
|
2,515
|
| NBA: Nuggets-Jazz |
3/6
|
ESPN
|
10:40pm-1:26am
|
1.1
|
1.2
|
1,579
|
| World Baseball Classic: U.S.-Canada |
3/7
|
ESPN
|
2:07-5:07pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,850
|
| NCAA Basketball: Louisville-West Virginia |
3/7
|
ESPN
|
9:00-11:10pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,780
|
| "Boxing After Dark": James Kirkland-Joel Julio |
3/7
|
HBO
|
10:57-11:21pm
|
n/a
|
0.9
|
1,416
|
| World Baseball Classic: U.S.-Venezuela |
3/8
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:48pm
|
1.7
|
2.0
|
2,645
|
NO BIG DEAL: Big Ten Network posted a 0.5 cable rating (4,527 HHs) for last Sunday's Indiana-Wisconsin men's basketball game at 6:00pm CT. Earlier in the day, WDJT-CBS posted a 3.3 rating with 29,877 HHs in the Milwaukee market for Duke-North Carolina, and WDJT, also in Milwaukee, posted a 3.4 local rating (30,782 HHs) for Saturday's Syracuse-Marquette game (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 3/11).
GIVE ME LIBERTY: FSN Northwest earned a 7.4 local rating in the Seattle-Tacoma market for last Saturday's Washington State-Washington men's basketball game, marking the net's highest rating ever for college basketball broadcast (FSN)....FSN Pittsburgh posted an 8.84 local rating for Tuesday's Panthers-Penguins game, marking the highest-rated game on the net this season and highest since an 8.79 for Penguins-Panthers in January '08. The 8.84 marked the sixth-highest rated regular-season Penguins game ever (FSN).
