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Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Events

The following lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports events (THE DAILY).

SHOW
DATE
NET
TIME
RAT/SHR
"College Football Countdown"
9/20
ABC
3:00-3:30pm
0.7/2
NCAA Football: (regional)
9/20
ABC
3:30-6:59pm
3.3/8
NCAA Football: Georgia-Arizona State
9/20
ABC
8:06-11:33pm
2.7/5
"College Football Today"
9/20
CBS
3:00-3:30pm
0.8/2
NCAA Football: Florida-Tennessee
9/20
CBS
3:30-6:51pm
2.7/6
MLB: (regional)
9/20
Fox
3:51-6:46pm
1.7/4
Golf: Ryder Cup: Foursomes & Fourball Matches
9/20
NBC
9:30am-7:30pm
2.4/6
"NASCAR Countdown"
9/21
ABC
1:00-2:00pm
1.5/4
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Camping World RV 400
9/21
ABC
2:00-6:00pm
3.3/7
"The NFL Today"
9/21
CBS
12:00-1:03pm
2.1/6
"NFL on CBS": (regional)
9/21
CBS
1:03-4:13pm
8.1/18
"NFL on CBS": Steelers-Eagles (60%)
9/21
CBS
4:28-7:25pm
12.0/23
"Fox NFL Sunday"
9/21
Fox
12:00-1:04pm
2.4/6
"NFL on Fox": (regional)
9/21
Fox
1:00-4:15pm
8.7/17
AVP Crocs Tour: Bud Light Manhattan Beach
Open: Women's Final (taped)
9/21
Fox
4:30-6:00pm
0.8/2
Golf: Ryder Cup: Singles Matches
9/21
NBC
12:30-6:07pm
2.9/6
"Football Night in America"
9/21
NBC
7:30-8:15pm
5.5/-
"Sunday Night Football": Cowboys-Packers
9/21
NBC
8:23-11:09pm
13.3/21
SHOW
DATE
NET
TIME
U.S. AREA
COV. AREA
VIEWERS (000)
"Monday Night Football":
Eagles-Cowboys
9/15
ESPN
8:30-11:58pm
11.3
13.3
18,608
"Monday Night Countdown"
9/15
ESPN
7:00-8:30pm
2.3
2.7
3,450
NCAA Football:
Kansas State-Louisville
9/17
ESPN2
8:00-11:34pm
1.3
1.5
1,780
NCAA Football:
West Virginia-Colorado
9/18
ESPN
8:25-11:59pm
2.7
3.2
4,018
NCAA Football:
Baylor-Connecticut
9/19
ESPN2
8:00-11:16pm
1.2
1.4
1,665
NCAA Football: LSU-Auburn
9/20
ESPN
7:41-11:06pm
3.5
4.1
5,562
NCAA Football:
East Carolina-N.C. State
9/20
ESPN
12:01-3:04pm
1.9
2.3
2,770
NCAA Football:
Wake Forest-Florida State
9/20
ESPN2
7:00-10:31pm
1.3
1.5
1,971
MLB: Orioles-Yankees
9/21
ESPN
8:20pm-12:04am
2.1
2.4
3,075
"Sunday NFL Countdown"
9/21
ESPN
11:00am-1:00pm
1.9
2.3
2,744

CUP OF TEE: ESPN for last Friday's coverage of the opening day of the Ryder Cup earned a 1.3 cable rating and 1,518,000 viewers, which was even with and up 3%, respectively, from USA Network's opening-day coverage of the '06 Ryder Cup (ESPN). Meanwhile, Sky Sports 1's Sunday coverage of the Ryder Cup attracted almost 1.2 million viewers. The net's coverage of the final round averaged 821,000 viewers, earning a 5.4 share of multichannel homes (Manchester GUARDIAN, 9/23).

PLAYOFF PUSH: Wednesday night's Cubs-Mets game was the highest-rated Mets game of the season on SportsNet N.Y., averaging a 5.73 HH rating and attracting more than 530,000 total viewers. The viewership peaked at 808,000 total viewers at 10:30pm ET. The game also marked the third-highest rating in SNY's history, as well as the net's second-highest rating in adults 25-54 (3.1) and men 25-54 (5.1) (SNY).

CHIEF CONCERN: KCTV-CBS for Sunday's Chiefs-Falcons game earned a 23.4 HH rating, the "lowest rating for a regular-season game" since a 20.7 for Chiefs-Jets in November '01. The net's lowest rating for the Chiefs last season was a 24.5 for Chiefs-Lions in December (K.C. STAR, 9/26).


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