NBA TV averaged 739,000 viewers for Tuesday night’s Lakers-Spurs matchup, marking the net’s best audience ever for an “NBA Fan Night” game, where fans vote to select the game to be shown. The audience also marks NBA TV’s second-best regular-season game ever, behind only the season-opening Lakers-Trail Blazers telecast this season (868,000) (NBA)….ESPN averaged an 8.2 local rating in Memphis for the Thunder-Grizzlies game on Wednesday night, marking the net’s highest-rated NBA regular-season game ever in that market (THE DAILY).
TEE BOX: Golf Channel’s average viewership per round for LPGA telecasts this season -- which conclude this weekend -- was up 19% from ’11 and 74% from ’10. Four of the top 11 tourney viewership averages and seven of the top 17 individual broadcast averages among the net’s LPGA broadcasts over the past five years occurred this season, including the Kraft Nabisco Championship, which saw early-round coverage get its best audience in nearly 20 years (LPGA).
NOTES: In Oklahoma City, Mel Bracht noted the West Virginia-Oklahoma State game (12.8 rating) beat out the Baylor-Oklahoma game (11.7 rating) “going head to head Saturday afternoon.” The 11.7 marked OU’s “lowest rating this season” in the market (NEWSOK.com, 11/13).
The charts below list final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts. Select ratings for ABC and Fox were unavailable at presstime.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Texans-Bears |
11/11
|
NBC
|
8:31-11:30pm
|
12.4
|
20,860
|
| "NFL on CBS": (single) |
11/11
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
9.2
|
n/a
|
NCAA Football:
Texas A&M-Alabama |
11/10
|
CBS
|
3:45-7:15pm
|
6.1
|
n/a
|
NCAA Football:
Notre Dame-Boston College |
11/10
|
ABC
|
8:07-11:40pm
|
3.6
|
5,755
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/11
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
3.4
|
5,451
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/11
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.3
|
n/a
|
| NCAA Football: (regional) |
11/10
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
2.2
|
3,477
|
| NCAA Football: Kansas State-TCU |
11/10
|
Fox
|
7:06-10:13pm
|
1.9
|
2,998
|
NCAA Football:
Arkansas-South Carolina |
11/10
|
CBS
|
12:00-3:45pm
|
1.8
|
n/a
|
| Courage in Sports Awards (taped) |
11/11
|
CBS
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
1.1
|
n/a
|
| Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix (taped) |
11/11
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
n/a
|
| Notre Dame special |
11/10
|
NBC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
n/a
|
| Ironman (encore) |
11/10
|
NBC
|
3:30-5:00pm
|
0.4
|
n/a
|
| Red Bull Signature Series |
11/10
|
NBC
|
2:30-3:30pm
|
0.3
|
n/a
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
"Monday Night Football":
Eagles-Saints |
11/5
|
ESPN
|
8:30-11:41pm
|
8.2
|
12,857
|
"Thursday Night Football":
Colts-Jaguars |
11/8
|
NFLN
|
8:30-11:34pm
|
3.3
|
5,194
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: Phoenix |
11/11
|
ESPN
|
3:00-6:41pm
|
2.8
|
4,423
|
| NCAA Football: Oregon-Cal |
11/10
|
ESPN
|
10:30pm-1:55am
|
2.3
|
3,657
|
| "Thursday Night Football Pre-Kick" |
11/8
|
NFLN
|
8:00-8:30pm
|
2.0
|
2,923
|
NCAA Football:
Florida State-Virginia Tech |
11/8
|
ESPN
|
7:26-11:03pm
|
1.7
|
2,684
|
| "Monday Night Countdown" |
11/5
|
ESPN
|
6:30-8:30pm
|
1.8
|
2,643
|
NCAA Football:
Northwestern-Michigan |
11/10
|
ESPN
|
12:01-3:31pm
|
1.8
|
2,591
|
NCAA Football:
Mississippi State-LSU |
11/10
|
ESPN
|
7:00-10:19pm
|
1.6
|
2,555
|
| "Sunday NFL Countdown" |
11/11
|
ESPN
|
10:00am-1:00pm
|
1.5
|
2,245
|
