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Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts

The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts (THE DAILY).

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME
RAT.
NCAA Football: Chick-Fil-A College Kickoff:
Alabama-Virginia Tech
9/5
ABC
8:06-11:56pm
4.2
NCAA Football: (regional)
9/5
ABC
3:30-6:59pm
3.5
PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship:
Final Round
9/7
NBC
2:00-6:00pm
2.2
PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship:
Third Round
9/6
NBC
3:00-6:00pm
1.7
U.S. Open: Men's, Women's Third Round
9/6
CBS
11:00am-6:00pm
1.7
U.S. Open: Men's, Women's Fourth Round
9/5
CBS
11:00am-6:45pm
1.4
NCAA Football: Nevada-Notre Dame
9/5
NBC
3:30-7:00pm
1.3
MLB: (regional)
9/5
Fox
4:00-6:52pm
1.3
"College Football Countdown"
9/5
ABC
3:00-3:30pm
0.9
Golden League Track & Field (taped)
9/6
NBC
2:00-3:00pm
0.8
USOC Hall of Fame Show (taped)
9/5
NBC
2:00-3:30pm
0.4
Traxxas Torc Truck Series (taped)
9/6
ABC
4:00-5:00pm
0.4
TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME
U.S.
CABLE
VIEWERS (000)
NFL Preseason:
Vikings-Texans
8/31
ESPN
8:00-11:00pm
5.2
6.0
7,918
NASCAR Sprint Cup:
Pep Boys Auto 500
9/6
ESPN
7:45-11:06pm
3.5
4.1
5,808
NCAA Football:
BYU-Oklahoma
9/5
ESPN
7:00-10:30pm
2.8
3.3
4,562
NCAA Football:
Navy-Ohio State
9/5
ESPN
12:01-3:03pm
2.6
3.0
3,877
NCAA Football:
Oregon-Boise State
9/3
ESPN
10:13pm-1:29am
2.5
2.9
3,855
"NASCAR Countdown"
9/6
ESPN
6:58-7:45pm
2.3
2.7
3,797
NCAA Football:
LSU-Washington
9/5
ESPN
10:30pm-1:56am
2.1
2.5
3,362
NCAA Football:
South Carolina-N.C. State
9/3
ESPN
7:00-10:04pm
2.1
2.4
3,263
NCAA Football:
Ole Miss-Memphis
9/6
ESPN
3:30-6:58pm
1.5
1.7
2,307
"College GameDay"
9/5
ESPN
10:00am-12:00pm
1.5
1.7
2,061

BACK TO SCHOOL: ESPN earned a 5.9 cable rating and 8.406 million viewers for Monday's Miami-Florida State game, marking the second-most viewed regular-season college football game in network history, trailing only a 6.9 cable rating and 9.12 million viewers for the same matchup in '06 (ESPN)....Last Sunday's Colorado State-Colorado game, which aired nationally on FSN, earned a 1.0 U.S. rating, up 14% from the same game last year. FSN Rocky Mountain led all regional nets with an 11.5 local rating, marking the second-highest rated college football telecast ever on the network behind a 12.3 rating for the same matchup last year (THE DAILY).

NOTES: CSN Bay Area earned a 5.81 local rating and more than 202,000 HHs for Padres-Giants Tuesday, marking the network's most-viewed Giants game this season. The game also ranked as the highest-rated Giants game on the net since a 7.8 local rating for the August '07 Nationals-Giants game in which former MLBer Barry Bonds hit his record-breaking 756th home run (CSN)....TSN drew 982,000 viewers for last Sunday's CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers-Saskatchewan Roughriders game, marking the most-watched sporting event on Canadian TV for the weekend (TSN).

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