ESPN earned a 3.2 rating and 5.1 million viewers for its telecast of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series GoBowling.com 400 last Sunday from Pocono Raceway. Those figures are up 10% and 14%, respectively, from a 2.9 rating and 4.4 million viewers last year. ESPN has now seen gains for its first two NASCAR races of the ’13 season after seeing an increase in audience for the Brickyard 400 two weekends ago.
AROUND THE HORN: FS Detroit earned a 15.5 local rating for the Tigers’ 14-inning win over the Indians on Wednesday night, marking the highest-rated Tigers game this season and second-best ever. The highest-rated game on the RSN remains Tigers-Twins on Sept. 30, 2009, with a 15.6 rating….YES Network drew a 4.3 local rating in N.Y. for Yankees-White Sox on Monday night, which saw the return of 3B Alex Rodriguez. The audience marked the RSN's highest-rated Yankees telecast this season….MLB Network averaged 114,000 viewers on a total-day basis for the week of July 29-Aug. 4, marking the net’s second-best weekly audience ever during the regular season.
The charts below list final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| Pro Football HOF Game: Cowboys-Dolphins |
8/4
|
NBC
|
8:11-11:05pm
|
6.2
|
10,106
|
| WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Final Round |
8/4
|
CBS
|
2:00-6:00pm
|
3.2
|
n/a
|
| WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Third Round |
8/3
|
CBS
|
2:00-6:00pm
|
2.6
|
n/a
|
| MLB: (regional) |
8/3
|
Fox
|
4:00-7:30pm
|
1.6
|
2,400
|
| "The PGA Championship: Moments of Glory" |
8/4
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
0.8
|
n/a
|
| "Prelude to Season's Final Major" |
8/4
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.8
|
n/a
|
| Liga MX: Leon-Club America |
7/31
|
Telem.
|
10:00pm-12:08am
|
0.6
|
1,013
|
| Soccer: Guiness Int'l Champions Cup: Real Madrid-Everton |
8/3
|
Fox
|
8:20-10:07pm
|
0.5
|
990
|
| World Swimming Championships |
8/4
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
912
|
| Liga MX: Chivas de Guadalajara-Atlante |
8/4
|
UniMas
|
5:52-8:00pm
|
0.5
|
856
|
| Horse Racing: Saratoga: Whitney Invitational Handicap |
8/3
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
834
|
| Liga MX: Club America-Atlas |
8/3
|
Univ.
|
5:50-8:00pm
|
0.5
|
823
|
| World Swimming Championships |
8/3
|
NBC
|
1:00-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
728
|
| Liga MX: Chivas de Guadalajara-Veracruz |
7/31
|
UniMas
|
6:50-9:02pm
|
0.4
|
719
|
| X Games L.A. |
8/4
|
ABC
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.5
|
675
|
| Red Bull Loretta Lynn's |
8/3
|
NBC
|
3:00-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
635
|
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" |
8/3
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
516
|
| Ricoh Women's British Open highlights |
8/4
|
ABC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
430
|
| "First" ('12 London Olympics movie) |
8/4
|
NBC
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
363
|
| "PGA Tour: Playing With a Purpose" |
8/3
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.3
|
n/a
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Pocono |
8/4
|
ESPN
|
1:00-4:40pm
|
3.2
|
5,063
|
| "NASCAR Countdown" |
8/4
|
ESPN
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
1.2
|
1,716
|
| MLB: Braves-Phillies |
8/4
|
ESPN
|
8:00-11:23pm
|
1.1
|
1,555
|
| NASCAR Nationwide Series: Iowa |
8/3
|
ESPN
|
8:00-10:21pm
|
1.0
|
1,509
|
| X Games L.A. |
8/4
|
ESPN
|
5:00-6:59pm
|
0.8
|
1,208
|
| UFC 163 prelims |
8/3
|
FX
|
8:00-10:00pm
|
0.6
|
1,002
|
| WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Third Round |
8/3
|
Golf
|
12:00-1:30pm
|
0.7
|
976
|
| WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Second Round |
8/2
|
Golf
|
2:00-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
883
|
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Pocono |
8/3
|
Speed
|
1:00-3:01pm
|
0.6
|
746
|
| MLB: Angels-Rangers |
7/29
|
ESPN
|
7:00-10:21pm
|
0.5
|
712
|
