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Overnight Ratings: Lakers-Heat Leads Weekend Sports; Pebble Beach Finale Down
ABC's Lakers-Heat telecast yesterday led all sports telecasts over the weekend with a 5.0 overnight Nielsen rating, marking the second-best non-Christmas Day ABC regular-season game ever. The net's telecast of Clippers-Knicks in the Sunday early afternoon window earned a 2.9 overnight. Meanwhile, CBS earned a 2.9 overnight for the final round of the PGA Tour Pebble Beach National Pro-Am yesterday, which saw Brandt Snedeker win the event. That figure was down sharply from a 5.1 overnight for the final round last year, when Phil Mickelson won the event. Tiger Woods finished 15th last year and did not play this year. CBS' Indiana-Ohio State telecast led all college basketball games over the weekend with a 1.9 overnight.
The chart below lists overnight Nielsen ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
TELECAST DATENETTIME (ET)RAT."ESPN Sports Saturday" 2/9ABC4:00-6:00pm0.6"75 Years of March Madness: Top 10 Coaches" 2/9CBS12:00-1:00pm0.5NCAA Basketball: Ole Miss-Missouri 2/9CBS1:00-3:15pm0.7PGA Tour: AT&T Pebble Beach
National Pro-Am: Third Round2/9CBS3:15-6:00pm1.8Major League Fishing 2/9NBC1:00-2:00pm0.7USSA Visa Freestyle Int'l 2/9NBC2:00-3:00pm0.7FIS Alpine World Championships 2/9NBC3:00-4:00pm0.9USA Sevens Rugby 2/9NBC4:00-6:00pm0.7"NBA Countdown" 2/10ABC12:30-1:00pmn/aNBA: Clippers-Knicks 2/10ABC1:00-3:30pm2.9NBA: Lakers-Heat 2/10ABC3:30-6:00pm5.0AMA Supercross special: Ryan Villopoto profile 2/10CBS12:00-1:00pm1.0NCAA Basketball: Indiana-Ohio State 2/10CBS1:00-3:00pm1.9PGA Tour: AT&T Pebble Beach
National Pro-Am: Final Round2/10CBS3:00-6:00pm2.9NHL: Kings-Red Wings 2/10NBC12:30-3:00pm1.1FIS Alpine World Championships 2/10NBC3:00-4:00pm0.7USA Sevens Rugby 2/10NBC4:00-5:00pm0.7NOTE: Ratings for Boston and Providence market unavailable due to Winter Storm Nemo.
