ESPN earned a 2.7 overnight for the Lakers-Clippers game on Friday night, marking the net's best regular-season NBA game rating since Knicks-Heat earned a 3.2 overnight in February '11. The net also earned a 1.7 overnight for the Bulls-Heat game in the early window Friday night. Meanwhile, ESPN aired two bowl games over the weekend. The BBVA Compass Bowl on Saturday afternoon earned a 2.0 overnight Nielsen rating, up from a 1.5 overnight for the SMU-Pitt matchup last year. The net earned a 1.2 overnight for the Arkansas State-Kent State GoDaddy.com Bowl last night, down from a 1.5 overnight for the Northern Illinois-Arkansas State matchup last year. NBC finished with a 1.3 overnight the U.S. Army All-American game, flat compared to the high school football all-star game last year. Fox also aired the first-ever live FA Cup telecast on U.S. broadcast TV on Saturday. The Manchester United-West Ham telecast drew a 0.6 overnight from 12:15-2:15pm ET.
Listed below are overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
| AT&T Cotton Bowl: Texas A&M-Oklahoma |
1/4
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:00pm
|
7.5
|
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" |
1/5
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
| NCAA Women's Basketball: Purdue-Nebraska |
1/5
|
CBS
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
0.5
|
| NCAA Women's Basketball: Notre Dame-UConn |
1/5
|
CBS
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
| FA Cup: Third Round: Manchester United-West Ham |
1/5
|
Fox
|
12:15-2:15pm
|
0.6
|
| High School Football: U.S. Army All-American Bowl |
1/5
|
NBC
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
1.3
|
| "Football Night in America" |
1/5
|
NBC
|
4:00-4:30pm
|
5.5
|
| AFC Wild Card: Bengals-Texans |
1/5
|
NBC
|
4:30-8:00pm
|
16.2
|
| NFC Wild Card: Vikings-Packers |
1/5
|
NBC
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
18.4
|
| "The NFL Today" |
1/6
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
4.8
|
| AFC Wild Card: Colts-Ravens |
1/6
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:30pm
|
19.7
|
| NCAA Basketball: Temple-Kansas |
1/6
|
CBS
|
4:30-6:30pm
|
n/a
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
1/6
|
Fox
|
4:00-4:30pm
|
9.3
|
| NFC Wild Card: Seahawks-Redskins |
1/6
|
Fox
|
4:30-7:30pm
|
23.7
|
PGA Tour: Hyundai Tournament of Champions:
First Round* |
1/6
|
NBC
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
| |
|
|
|
|
NOTE: * = Play suspended early due to high winds.
