NBC drew a 2.6 overnight rating for Saturday afternoon’s Breeders’ Cup Classic, which saw American Pharoah win the “grand slam” of horse racing. That figure from 5:00-6:15pm ET marks the race’s best overnight since ESPN drew a 3.1 in ’10 (6:15-7:15pm). That race saw Blame edge of Zenyatta for the win. This year’s rating is up 46% from a 1.8 last year in primetime and a 1.4 on a Saturday afternoon in ’13. Louisville led all markets with an 8.6 local rating.
NIGHT OWLS: ABC’s Notre Dame-Temple telecast led all college football games on Saturday with a 3.9 overnight rating. The primetime game also drew an 18.1 local rating in Philadelphia, which is the market’s best figure on record (dating back to ’04) for a regular-season game on ABC. Meanwhile, ESPN drew a 2.6 overnight for Ole Miss-Auburn, marking the net cable net’s best noon game rating of the season. Over on CBS, the net drew a 3.4 overnight for the annual Florida-Georgia telecast, down 15% from a 4.0 last year.
The chart below lists overnight ratings from weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RATING
|
| World Series: Royals-Mets: Game 3 |
10/30
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
9.1
|
| College football: Syracuse-Florida State |
10/31
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
1.8
|
| College football: (regional) |
10/31
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
2.3
|
| College football: Notre Dame-Temple |
10/31
|
ABC
|
8:07-11:57pm
|
3.9
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series |
10/31
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football Today" |
10/31
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.8
|
| College football: Georgia-Florida |
10/31
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:30pm
|
3.4
|
| College football: USC-Cal |
10/31
|
Fox
|
3:00-6:15pm
|
1.6
|
| World Series: Royals-Mets: Game 4 |
10/31
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
9.3
|
| Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand-Australia |
10/31
|
NBC
|
12:00-2:30pm
|
0.8
|
| World Gymnastics Championships: Glasgow |
10/31
|
NBC
|
2:30-4:00pm
|
0.9
|
| Breeders' Cup Classic (Keeneland) |
10/31
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
2.6
|
| "World of X Games: WSL Surfing" |
11/1
|
ABC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.4
|
| TCS N.Y. Marathon (taped) |
11/1
|
ABC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/1
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.7
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
11/1
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
9.5
|
| "Courage in Sports" |
11/1
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.3
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/1
|
Fox
|
9:00-9:30am
|
1.8
|
| NFL: Lions-Chiefs (London) |
11/1
|
Fox
|
9:30am-12:45pm
|
5.9
|
| NFL: (regional) |
11/1
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:25pm
|
10.9
|
| NFL: Seahawks-Cowboys (97%) |
11/1
|
Fox
|
4:30-7:30pm
|
19.5
|
| World Series: Royals-Mets: Game 5 |
11/1
|
Fox
|
8:00-11:30pm
|
11.8
|
| World Gymnastics Championships: Glasgow |
11/1
|
NBC
|
12:00-1:30pm
|
1.1
|
| "F1 Pre-Race" |
11/1
|
NBC
|
1:30-2:00pm
|
0.6
|
| F1: Mexico Grand Prix |
11/1
|
NBC
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
0.6
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating (Canada) |
11/1
|
NBC
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Packers-Broncos |
11/1
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:30pm
|
14.3
|
