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SBD/Issue 142/Sports Media
Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts
Published April 10, 2009
The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts (THE DAILY).
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
RAT/SHR
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
American Le Mans Series: Acura
Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg |
4/4
|
ABC
|
1:30-3:30pm
|
0.5/1
|
| "Dick Vitale's All-American Special" |
4/4
|
ABC
|
3:30-5:00pm
|
0.4/1
|
| Tennis: Sony Ericsson Open: Women's Final: Azarenka-S.Williams |
4/4
|
CBS
|
12:30-3:00pm
|
0.7/2
|
| "State Farm Coaches' All-American Special" |
4/4
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.5/1
|
| "The Road to the Final Four: Outside the Games" |
4/4
|
CBS
|
3:30-4:00pm
|
0.6/2
|
| "The Final Four Show" |
4/4
|
CBS
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.6/4
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Final Four: Michigan State-Connecticut |
4/4
|
CBS
|
6:00-8:39pm
|
7.8/17
|
| NCAA Basketball Tournament: Final Four: North Carolina-Villanova |
4/4
|
CBS
|
9:07-11:36pm
|
8.5/16
|
| PGA Tour: Shell Houston Open: Third Round |
4/4
|
NBC
|
2:00-5:00pm
|
1.2/4
|
| Horse Racing: Santa Anita Derby |
4/4
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.3/3
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
4/5
|
ABC
|
12:30-1:00pm
|
0.9/2
|
| NBA: Spurs-Cavaliers |
4/5
|
ABC
|
12:56-3:30pm
|
1.9/5
|
| NBA: Suns-Mavericks |
4/5
|
ABC
|
3:30-6:08pm
|
1.9/4
|
| "Best of College Basketball 2009" |
4/5
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
0.6/2
|
| Tennis: Sony Ericsson Open: Men's Final: Murray-Djokovic |
4/5
|
CBS
|
1:00-3:03pm
|
0.9/2
|
| LPGA Tour: Kraft Nabisco Championship: Final Round |
4/5
|
CBS
|
3:03-6:00pm
|
0.8/2
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Samsung 500 |
4/5
|
Fox
|
2:18-5:50pm
|
4.7/11
|
| NHL: Wild-Red Wings |
4/5
|
NBC
|
12:30-3:01pm
|
0.7/2
|
| PGA Tour: Shell Houston Open: Final Round |
4/5
|
NBC
|
3:01-7:00pm
|
2.3/5
|
|
TELECAST
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
U.S.
|
CABLE
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
MLB: Braves-Phillies
|
4/5
|
ESPN2
|
8:00-10:35pm
|
2.1
|
2.5
|
3,313
|
|
NCAA Women's Basketball
Tournament: Semifinals: Connecticut-Stanford |
4/5
|
ESPN
|
9:31-11:31pm
|
1.7
|
2.0
|
2,664
|
|
NCAA Women's Basketball
Tournament: Semifinals: Louisville-Oklahoma |
4/5
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:07pm
|
1.6
|
1.9
|
2,424
|
| NBA: Rockets-Lakers |
4/3
|
ESPN
|
10:31pm-1:07am
|
1.6
|
1.8
|
2,381
|
| NASCAR Nationwide Series: O'Reilly 300 |
4/4
|
ESPN2
|
3:00-5:34pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,863
|
| NBA: Cavaliers-Magic |
4/3
|
ESPN
|
8:01-10:31pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,798
|
| NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament: Regional Finals: Oklahoma-Purdue |
3/31
|
ESPN
|
9:05-11:19pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,737
|
| NBA: Cavaliers-Wizards |
4/2
|
TNT
|
8:17-10:49pm
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1,701
|
| NBA: Rockets-Suns |
4/1
|
ESPN
|
10:02pm-12:33am
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1,537
|
| NCAA Basketball Slam Dunk & Three-Point Contest |
4/2
|
ESPN
|
9:10-11:12pm
|
1.0
|
1.2
|
1,531
|
PLAY BALL: CSN Chicago drew a 3.23 local rating for Tuesday's Royals-White Sox season opener, marking the highest-rated White Sox season-opener in Chicago RSN history, ahead of a 2.38 on the net for the Indians-White Sox season opener in '05 (CSN)....Monday's Yankees-Orioles season-opener on MASN and Baltimore's WJZ-CBS drew a combined 135,000 HHs, up from 63,000 for the Orioles' season-opener last season against the Rays (Baltimore SUN, 4/10)....The three-game Cubs-Astros series averaged a 4.6 local Nielsen rating on FS Houston and KTXH-MYT in Houston. Last year's opening series against the Padres averaged a 3.5 rating (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 4/10)....The Rangers' Opening Day win over the Indians earned a 3.1 local Nielsen rating on KDFW-Fox, while the second game earned a 3.0 local rating on FS Southwest on Wednesday night (DALLASNEWS.com, 4/9).
AROUND THE RINKS: CSN Chicago posted the highest Blackhawks regular-season average in the history of Chicago RSNs with a 1.26 local Nielsen rating for its game telecasts (44,000 HHs), beating out the previous record of 1.06, set during the '96-97 season on SportsChannel. The 1.26 rating is also up 100% from a 0.63 rating last year (CSN)....The CBC averaged 1.039 million viewers for Saturday's Canucks-Oilers late-window "Hockey Night in Canada" game, the "largest late-game audience for CBC this season" and only 170,000 short of the early-window "HNIC" games. TSN drew 490,000 viewers for Sunday's Canucks-Avalanche game (THESTAR.com, 4/7).
NOTES: ESPN's telecast of The Masters Par 3 Contest on Wednesday afternoon earned a 0.8 cable rating (977,000 viewers), down from a 0.9 rating (1.035 million viewers) in '08 (THE DAILY)....The NCAA men's basketball tournament on Canadian network The Score averaged 60,000 viewers, up 22% over '08 and 40% over '07. The Score more than doubled viewership numbers in men 18-34 compared to '08 (The Score)....Telemundo's April 1 telecast of the Mexico-Honduras World Cup qualifier drew 1.7 million viewers in men 18-49 (HISPANICMARKETWEEKLY.com, 4/3).
