Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Events
The following chart lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports events (THE DAILY).
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SHOW
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DATE
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NET
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TIME
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RAT/SHR
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"Race to March Madness"
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3/8
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ABC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.6/-
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NCAA Basketball: (regional)
|
3/8
|
ABC
|
3:30-5:56pm
|
1.1/-
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| NCAA Basketball: Louisville-Georgetown |
3/8
|
CBS
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
1.4/4
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| NCAA Basketball: Stanford-USC |
3/8
|
CBS
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
1.5/4
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| NCAA Basketball: Kansas-Texas A&M |
3/8
|
CBS
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.4/3
|
| Visa Snowboardcross World Cup (taped) |
3/8
|
NBC
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.8/2
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| PGA Tour: PODS Championship: Third Round |
3/8
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.5/4
|
| "NBA Countdown" |
3/9
|
ABC
|
3:00-3:27pm
|
0.9/-
|
| NBA: Spurs-Suns |
3/9
|
ABC
|
3:27-6:10pm
|
2.1/-
|
| NCAA Basketball: Florida-Kentucky |
3/9
|
CBS
|
12:00-2:00pm
|
1.6/4
|
NCAA Basketball: MVC Championship:
Drake-Illinois State |
3/9
|
CBS
|
2:00-4:00pm
|
1.1/3
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| NCAA Basketball: Purdue-Michigan |
3/9
|
CBS
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
1.1/2
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kobalt Tools 500 |
3/9
|
Fox
|
1:30-5:00pm
|
6.4/15
|
| NHL: Penguins-Capitals |
3/9
|
NBC
|
12:30-3:00pm
|
0.8/2
|
| PGA Tour: PODS Championship: Final Round |
3/9
|
NBC
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.9/4
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SHOW
|
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME
|
U.S. AREA
|
COV. AREA
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
|
NCAA Basketball:
Texas-Kansas State
|
2/25
|
ESPN
|
9:07-11:15pm
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1,259
|
|
NASCAR Nationwide Series: Stater Bros. 300*
|
2/25
|
ESPN2
|
4:00-6:33pm
|
1.0
|
1.1
|
1,076
|
NCAA Basketball:
Tennessee-Vanderbilt |
2/26
|
ESPN
|
9:01-11:29pm
|
1.8
|
2.1
|
2,021
|
NCAA Basketball:
Ohio State-Indiana |
2/26
|
ESPN
|
7:00-9:01pm
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1,243
|
NCAA Basketball:
Georgia Tech-Duke |
2/27
|
ESPN
|
9:03-11:11pm
|
1.1
|
1.3
|
1,289
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| NBA: Heat-Lakers |
2/28
|
TNT
|
10:49pm-1:20am
|
1.5
|
1.7
|
1,683
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| NBA: Mavericks-Spurs |
2/28
|
TNT
|
8:14-10:49pm
|
1.4
|
1.7
|
1,611
|
| NBA: Clippers-Nuggets |
2/29
|
ESPN
|
10:31pm-1:10am
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
1,047
|
| NBA: Jazz-Hornets |
2/29
|
ESPN
|
8:01-10:31pm
|
0.9
|
1.1
|
1,017
|
| NASCAR Nationwide Series: Sam's Town 300 |
3/1
|
ESPN2
|
4:30-7:43pm
|
1.8
|
2.1
|
2,053
|
NCAA Basketball:
Kansas State-Kansas |
3/1
|
ESPN
|
9:00-11:09pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,384
|
| NBA: Nuggets-Rockets |
3/2
|
ESPN
|
8:02-10:25pm
|
1.2
|
1.4
|
1,306
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* = Race rained out on February 23.
NOTES: Thursday's Pirates-Yankees Spring Training game, which featured actor Billy Crystal leading off as DH for the Yankees, earned a 1.1 HH rating and 89,000 viewers on YES, making it the net's highest-rated and most-viewed weekday Spring Training Yankees telecast (YES)....Monday night's Celtics-76ers game on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia averaged a 2.7 HH rating (80,266 HHs), marking the net's highest-rated 76ers game since the '06 home opener (Comcast)....Last Friday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series American Commercial Lines 200 from Atlanta Motor Speedway earned a 1.05 coverage rating (753,000 HHs) on Speed, an increase of 31.3% from a 0.80 rating (565,000 HHs) for last year's race (Speed).
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