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SBD/Issue 137/Sports Media
Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts
Published April 3, 2009
The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts (THE DAILY).
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
RAT/SHR
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: (regional) |
3/26
|
CBS
|
7:00-9:45pm
|
5.6/10
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: (regional) |
3/26
|
CBS
|
9:45pm-12:22am
|
6.7/12
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: (regional) |
3/27
|
CBS
|
7:00-9:35pm
|
5.5/10
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: (regional) |
3/27
|
CBS
|
9:35pm-12:06am
|
6.9/13
|
| NCAA Basketball: Division II Championship: Findlay-Cal Poly Pomona |
3/28
|
CBS
|
1:00-3:16pm
|
1.2/3
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals: Connecticut-Missouri |
3/28
|
CBS
|
4:30-6:54pm
|
5.4/12
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals: Villanova-Pittsburgh |
3/28
|
CBS
|
7:01-9:31pm
|
6.6/12
|
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Kroger 250* |
3/28
|
Fox
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.7/2
|
| PGA Tour: Arnold Palmer Invitational: Third Round |
3/28
|
NBC
|
2:30-6:12pm
|
2.5/6
|
| ISU World Figure Skating Championships: Women's Free Skate |
3/28
|
NBC
|
9:00-11:00pm
|
2.6/5
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
3/29
|
ABC
|
12:30-12:56pm
|
1.1/-
|
| NBA: Mavericks-Cavaliers |
3/29
|
ABC
|
12:56-3:31pm
|
1.6/4
|
| AMA Supercross Series: Toronto (taped) |
3/29
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.8/2
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals: Michigan State-Louisville |
3/29
|
CBS
|
2:10-4:27pm
|
5.2/12
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals: North Carolina-Oklahoma |
3/29
|
CBS
|
4:55-7:18pm
|
6.8/13
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 |
3/29
|
Fox
|
2:16-5:49pm
|
4.6/10
|
| Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships (taped) |
3/29
|
NBC
|
1:00-2:30pm
|
0.6/1
|
| PGA Tour: Arnold Palmer Invitational: Final Round |
3/29
|
NBC
|
2:30-8:00pm
|
4.4/9
|
| NOTE: * = Event was rained out and run on Monday on Speed Channel. Rating listed is for rainout coverage. | ||||
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
U.S.
|
CABLE
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
NCAA Basketball: NIT Second Round: Kentucky-Creighton
|
3/23
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:09pm
|
1.0
|
1.2
|
1,514
|
|
World Baseball Classic Championship: Japan-Korea
|
3/23
|
ESPN
|
9:30pm-1:44am
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,675
|
|
NCAA Basketball: NIT Quarterfinals: Penn State-Florida
|
3/24
|
ESPN
|
9:12-11:02pm
|
0.9
|
1.0
|
1,307
|
| NBA: Celtics-Magic |
3/25
|
ESPN
|
8:02-10:35pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,725
|
| NBA: Jazz-Suns |
3/25
|
ESPN
|
10:35pm-1:05am
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,825
|
| NCAA Basketball: NIT Quarterfinals: Notre Dame-Kentucky |
3/25
|
ESPN2
|
7:00-9:03pm
|
0.9
|
1.0
|
1,390
|
| NBA: Heat-Bulls |
3/26
|
TNT
|
8:16-10:49pm
|
0.8
|
0.9
|
1,149
|
| NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: Maryland-Vanderbilt |
3/28
|
ESPN
|
2:33-4:34pm
|
0.8
|
1.0
|
1,172
|
| NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament: Regional Semifinals: Connecticut-California |
3/29
|
ESPN
|
12:00-1:59pm
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
1,263
|
| NBA: Spurs-Hornets |
3/29
|
ESPN
|
8:00-10:45pm
|
1.1
|
1.2
|
1,623
|
BREAKING THE ICE: CSN Chicago for last Friday's Devils-Blackhawks game earned a 2.13 local rating, marking the net's highest-rated Blackhawks telecast ever. Blackhawks games on CSN Chicago this season are averaging a 1.11 local rating, up 76% over the year-ago period (CSN)....CSN Bay Area earned a 2.17 local rating for Monday's Sharks-Flames game, the net's highest-rated regular-season Sharks game ever. CSN Bay Area is averaging a 1.4 for Sharks games this season, up 56% over last year (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, 4/1).
COURT REPORT: FS Ohio drew an 11.02 local rating and 378,000 viewers for Tuesday's Pistons-Cavaliers game (Cleveland PLAIN DEALER, 4/2)....Oklahoma City's KWTV-CBS earned a 25.1 local rating for last Friday's Oklahoma-Syracuse NCAA men's basketball tournament regional semifinal, and a 24.1 for last Sunday's North Carolina-Oklahoma regional final. The two games ranked as the highest-rated sports telecasts for the week in the market (DAILY OKLAHOMAN, 4/1).
