ESPN2 earned an 11.9 local rating in Knoxville for Game 1 of the Oklahoma-Tennessee Women’s College World Series on Monday, marking the best local figure in any market for a WCWS telecast on the net since ’07. Oklahoma City also saw record local ratings, averaging a 6.7 rating for Game 2 on ESPN for an all-time high WCWS rating in the market. Meanwhile, Greenville-Spartanburg was the highest-rated market for ESPN2’s telecasts of the NCAA D-I Baseball Championship Regionals. Louisville, New Orleans, Tulsa and Raleigh-Durham rounded out the top five (ESPN).
NOTES: MLB Rangers games in which P Yu Darvish starts are averaging a 6.0 local rating in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market (games have aired on FS Southwest, KTXA-CBS and ESPN). For all other Rangers telecasts, those games have averaged a 4.8 rating (DALLASNEWS.com, 5/31)….MLB Network during the week of May 26-June 2 averaged 262,000 viewers in primetime, marking the net's most-viewed week for the '13 regular season (MLBN)....Fox Deportes finished the month of May as the most-viewed Spanish sports cable network. The net also had seven of the top 10 most-viewed sports programs on Spanish cable for the month (Fox Deportes).
The charts below list final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts.
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NASCAR Sprint Cup: FedEx 400 (Dover) |
6/2
|
Fox
|
1:15-4:30pm
|
3.8
|
6,000
|
| NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Bruins-Penguins: Game 1 |
6/1
|
NBC
|
8:00-11:00pm
|
2.0
|
3,376
|
| MLB: (regional) |
6/1
|
Fox
|
7:12-10:28pm
|
2.2
|
3,284
|
| PGA Tour: The Memorial: Final Round |
6/2
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.8
|
n/a
|
| PGA Tour: The Memorial: Third Round |
6/1
|
CBS
|
3:00-6:00pm
|
1.5
|
n/a
|
| Soccer friendly: Mexico-Nigeria |
5/31
|
UniMas
|
8:53-11:07pm
|
1.0
|
2,108
|
| French Open: Third Round |
6/1
|
NBC
|
12:00-3:00pm
|
0.9
|
1,300
|
| French Open: Round of 16 |
6/2
|
NBC
|
1:00-4:00pm
|
0.9
|
1,300
|
| Track & Field: Prefontaine Classic |
6/1
|
NBC
|
4:30-6:00pm
|
0.8
|
1,200
|
| IndyCar: Chevy Indy Dual In Detroit: Race 2 |
6/2
|
ABC
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
0.7
|
1,000
|
| IndyCar: Chevy Indy Dual In Detroit: Race 1 |
6/1
|
ABC
|
3:30-6:00pm
|
0.6
|
883
|
| College Rugby Championship |
6/2
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.5
|
629
|
| "PGA Tour 2013: Golf's Dads" |
6/2
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
n/a
|
| College Rugby Championship |
6/1
|
NBC
|
3:00-4:30pm
|
0.4
|
488
|
| "Stars on Sports" |
6/1
|
CBS
|
2:00-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
n/a
|
| TELECAST |
DATE
|
NET
|
TIME (ET)
|
RAT.
|
VIEWERS (000)
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 5 |
5/30
|
TNT
|
8:31-11:08pm
|
5.4
|
8,540
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 6 |
6/1
|
TNT
|
8:31-11:09pm
|
4.9
|
8,236
|
| NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 4 |
5/28
|
TNT
|
8:31-11:32pm
|
5.1
|
8,122
|
| NBA Western Conference Finals: Spurs-Grizzlies: Game 4 |
5/27
|
ESPN
|
9:03-11:47pm
|
3.2
|
5,210
|
| "Inside the NBA" |
5/30
|
TNT
|
11:08-11:58pm
|
2.5
|
3,586
|
NHL Western Conference Semifinals:
Blackhawks-Red Wings: Game 7 |
5/29
|
NBCS
|
8:00-11:11pm
|
2.1
|
3,354
|
| "Inside the NBA" |
5/28
|
TNT
|
11:32pm-12:34pm
|
2.2
|
3,117
|
| "Inside the NBA" |
6/1
|
TNT
|
11:09pm-12:10am
|
2.0
|
3,024
|
NHL Western Conference Semifinals:
Blackhawks-Red Wings: Game 6 |
5/27
|
NBCS
|
8:00-10:48pm
|
1.6
|
2,723
|
| "Inside the NBA" |
6/1
|
TNT
|
8:00-8:31pm
|
1.7
|
2,484
|
