Brewers Saw Gains For Opening Day Radio EPL Home Attendance Rises 4% Overnight Nielsen Ratings MLB Games Have Best Concessions Experience NLL Attendance Rises 2% In '13 Overnight Nielsen Ratings MLS Attendance Down 8% To Date Outdoor Channel In Record Number Of Homes Nike Soccer Among Top Brands On YouTube Overnight Nielsen Ratings
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Data Shows Brewers Led MLB Opening Day Radio Broadcasts Among Males 25-5405 / 22 / 13The Brewers led all MLB teams this year in the percentage of male listeners (40.8%) ages 25-54 who were listening to radio in the home market and tuned into the team's Opening Day game for at least five minutes, according to data from Arbitron. The Brewers have seen gains over the past two seasons i... Tags: Research and Ratings, Arbitron Co., MLB |
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Top Sports Websites In February
Yahoo Sports led all sports websites during February with 45.8 million unique visitors, according to data from comScore. ESPN.com ranked second with 35.5 million uniques. USTrotting.com led all sports sites with 103.3 minutes per visitor, but attracted only 50,000 uniques in February. ...
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
CBS' coverage of the NCAA men's basketball tournament topped overnight Nielsen ratings for all weekend sports telecasts on broadcast TV. After three consecutive weeks of ratings gains to start the season for its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series coverage, Fox' telecast of the Jeff Byrd 5 ...
Lightning Attendance Up 11.5% To Date
The Lightning are seeing an 11.5% increase in home attendance at St. Pete Times Forum this season, the first full season under the new regime of Owner Jeff Vinik, CEO & Minority Owner Tod Leiweke and GM Steve Yzerman. The Penguins are also seeing gains during their first season at Consol En ...
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NHL Attendance Flat Through March 16
NHL teams are averaging 17,039 fans per game to date, flat compared to the same time period last year. The Blackhawks lead all clubs with 21,374 fans per game while packing United Center to 108.4% capacity. The Predators and Avalanche are seeing the best growth among Western Conference clubs (+ ...
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Big East Tournament Viewership Up 11%
The Big East men's basketball tournament averaged 1.461 million viewers (1.0 U.S. rating) for 13 telecasts across ESPN and ESPN2 this year, up 10.8% from 1.318 million viewers last year (0.9 rating). The tournament final between UConn and Louisville on Saturday night averaged 3.291 million view ...
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Poll: Execs Have Mixed Reaction To MLS Expansion
As the '11 MLS season gets underway tonight, sports industry execs have mixed feelings about the pace of the league's expansion, according to results from a Turnkey Sports poll taken in February. Forty-four percent of execs said MLS expansion is right on track, followed closely by 40% saying ex ...
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Overnight Nielsen Ratings
CBS' coverage of the Big Ten men's basketball championship yesterday featuring Ohio State-Penn State earned a 2.7 overnight rating, flat with the net's telecast of the Ohio State-Minnesota matchup last year. The net's Atlantic 10 championship telecast was also flat. CBS did see gains in the ove ...
Beer Drinker Demos For Major Sports Leagues
Fans who are very interested in the NHL are more likely than other major sports leagues' fans to have consumed beer over the last 30 days, according to data from Scarborough Sports Marketing. Just over 62% of those very interested in the NHL said they had an alcoholic beer over the last month, wi ...
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MLB Int'l Amateur Player Bonuses
The Mariners spent an estimated $6.47M in signing international amateur players this offseason, tops among all MLB clubs, according to data compiled by BASEBALL AMERICA. The club had five of the 30 highest international bonuses this offseason, including $2.2M given to Dominican OF Phi ...
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NCAA Basketball Conference Tournament Gifts
More than $1.5M in gifts will be given to NCAA men's and women's basketball players by their conferences over the next few weeks as "rewards for the athletes' participation" in end-of-season tournaments, according to David Broughton of SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. There are "more than two ...
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