ESPN averaged 4.7 million viewers for Duke-Syracuse last Saturday night, marking the net’s third-best regular-season college basketball audience on record. The only two games to draw a better audience were North Carolina-Duke (5.6 million viewers) and Tennessee-Memphis (5.3 million viewers) from the ’07-08 season. Both of those games involved two teams ranked at the time in the top three. Duke-Syracuse set local ESPN ratings records for a regular-season college basketball telecast in Buffalo and N.Y. (ESPN).
The charts below list final ratings from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. | VIEWERS (000) |
| Super Bowl XLVIII: Seahawks-Broncos | 2/2 | Fox | 6:33-9:55pm | 46.7 | 112,191 |
| "Super Bowl XLVIII Postgame Show" | 2/2 | Fox | 10:03-10:23pm | 28.3 | 65,780 |
| "Super Bowl Sunday Pregame Show" | 2/2 | Fox | 2:00-6:33pm | 12.0 | 23,200 |
| "Super Bowl: Greatest Commercials" | 1/29 | CBS | 8:00-9:00pm | 5.8 | 9,636 |
| "Saturday Night Live: Sports Spectacular" | 1/30 | NBC | 9:00-11:00pm | 2.9 | 4,792 |
| "Football America: Our Stories" | 2/2 | Fox | 1:00-2:00pm | 2.5 | 3,953 |
| PGA Tour: Waste Management Phoenix Open: Final Round | 2/2 | CBS | 3:05-6:03pm | 2.3 | 3,582 |
| "NFL Honors" | 2/1 | Fox | 8:00-10:00pm | 1.9 | 3,126 |
| Soccer friendly: Mexico-South Korea | 1/29 | UniMas | 8:46-11:07pm | 1.5 | 2,982 |
| PGA Tour: Waste Management Phoenix Open: Third Round | 2/1 | CBS | 3:17-6:10pm | 2.0 | 2,744 |
| "Road to the Super Bowl" | 2/2 | Fox | 12:00-1:00pm | 1.8 | 2,738 |
| College Basketball: Michigan-Indiana | 2/2 | CBS | 1:00-3:05pm | 1.5 | 2,367 |
| Purina Incredible Dog Challenge | 2/2 | NBC | 5:00-6:00pm | 1.2 | 2,098 |
| College Basketball: Kentucky-Missouri | 2/1 | CBS | 1:00-3:17pm | 1.3 | 1,842 |
| Four Continents Figure Skating Championships | 2/1 | NBC | 4:30-6:00pm | 1.2 | 1,784 |
| World's Strongest Man | 2/2 | CBS | 12:00-1:00pm | 1.1 | 1,780 |
| "X Games Aspen Rewind" | 2/1 | ABC | 1:00-5:00pm | 0.8 | 1,151 |
| NHL: Red Wings-Capitals | 2/2 | NBC | 12:30-3:30pm | 0.7 | 1,085 |
| Liga MX: Chivas de Guadalajara-Cruz Azul | 2/1 | UniMas | 7:48-10:00pm | 0.6 | 1,066 |
| Figure Skating: Tribute to American Legends of the Ice | 2/1 | NBC | 2:30-4:30pm | 0.7 | 1,009 |
| "ESPN Sports Saturday" | 2/1 | ABC | 5:00-6:00pm | 0.7 | 967 |
| Liga MX: Club America-Atlante | 2/1 | Univision | 5:55-8:00pm | 0.6 | 929 |
| Red Bull Signature Series: Frozen Rush | 2/2 | NBC | 3:30-5:00pm | 0.5 | 896 |
| "EPL Match of the Day" | 2/1 | NBC | 12:30-2:30pm | 0.3 | 497 |
| TELECAST | DATE | NET | TIME (ET) | RAT. | VIEWERS (000) |
| College Basketball: Duke-Syracuse | 2/1 | ESPN | 6:28-9:02pm | 2.9 | 4,745 |
| NBA: Thunder-Heat | 1/29 | ESPN | 6:59-9:39pm | 2.4 | 3,864 |
| NBA: Heat-Knicks | 2/1 | ESPN | 9:02-11:13pm | 1.7 | 2,645 |
| College Basketball: Michigan State-Iowa | 1/28 | ESPN | 7:00-9:26pm | 1.4 | 2,184 |
| "Sunday NFL Countdown" | 2/2 | ESPN | 10:00am-2:00pm | 1.4 | 2,100 |
| NBA: Bulls-Spurs | 1/29 | ESPN | 9:39pm-12:00am | 1.3 | 2,043 |
| College Basketball: Kansas-Texas | 2/1 | ESPN | 4:11-6:25pm | 1.3 | 1,924 |
| College Basketball: Kentucky-LSU | 1/28 | ESPN | 9:26-11:16pm | 1.2 | 1,891 |
| College Basketball: Ohio State-Wisconsin | 2/1 | ESPN | 12:00-2:03pm | 1.2 | 1,716 |
| NBA: Thunder-Nets | 1/31 | ESPN | 8:04-10:35pm | 1.2 | 1,710 |
