Menu
Media

Final Ratings: IndyCar Belle Isle Doubleheader Up From '13; NBC's Prefontaine Classic Down

The Verizon IndyCar Series had its first weekend doubleheader of the ’14 season last week in Detroit. ABC finished with a 0.9 rating and 1.39 million viewers for the first leg of the Chevy Belle Isle Grand Prix on Saturday afternoon, while Sunday’s second leg drew a 0.7 rating and 1.003 million viewers. Last season was the first to feature weekend doubleheaders for IndyCar. The first leg of Belle Isle last year drew a 0.6 rating and 883,000 viewers, while the second leg on Sunday drew a 0.7 rating and 1.0 million viewers.

NO TIGER, NO PROBLEM: CBS finished with a 2.0 rating (2.9 million viewers) for the final round of The Memorial last Sunday, which saw Hideki Matsuyama win his first PGA Tour event in a playoff against Kevin Na. That figure is up 11% from a 1.8 rating last year, when Matt Kuchar won the event. Tiger Woods did not play this year’s event, and finished tied for 65th last year. Saturday’s coverage on CBS drew a 1.3 rating (1.78 million viewers), down from a 1.5 rating last year.

NOTES: NBC drew 980,000 viewers for the Prefontaine Classic last Saturday afternoon, down from 1.2 million viewers last year. Figures were unavailable for ’12, but the event drew 1.11 million viewers in ’11 and 1.22 million viewers in ’10....Golf Channel finished with 301,000 viewers for live coverage of the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic last Sunday, which saw Stacy Lewis win. The win was the fourth straight and sixth in seven events by an American player. The audience was up 36% from 221,000 viewers for the final round last year, when Australian Karrie Webb won. Lewis also won in ’12, and Golf Channel drew 263,000 viewers for that final round.

The charts below list final ratings and viewership for recent sports telecasts.

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RATING
VIEWERS
(000)
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series: FedEx 400 (Dover)
6/1
Fox
1:15-5:15pm
3.5
5,400
PGA Tour: The Memorial: Final Round
6/1
CBS
2:30-6:23pm
2.0
2,898
Soccer friendly: Mexico-Israel
5/28
UniMas
9:25-11:36pm
1.3
2,814
PGA Tour: The Memorial: Third Round
5/31
CBS
3:00-6:00pm
1.3
1,784
MLB: (regional)
5/31
Fox
7:12-10:23pm
1.2
1,771
Verizon IndyCar Series: Chevy Belle Isle Grand Prix: Race 1
5/31
ABC
3:30-6:00pm
0.9
1,390
Verizon IndyCar Series: Chevy Belle Isle Grand Prix: Race 2
6/1
ABC
3:30-6:00pm
0.7
1,003
French Open: Third Round
5/31
NBC
12:00-3:00pm
0.7
986
Track: Prefontaine Classic
5/31
NBC
4:30-6:00pm
0.6
980
French Open: Fourth Round
6/1
NBC
1:00-4:00pm
0.7
951
"Inside U.S. Soccer's March to Brazil"
5/31
ABC
3:00-3:30pm
0.5
844
College Rugby Championships
5/31
NBC
3:00-4:30pm
0.4
633
"World of X Games: 2014 Austin Preview"
6/1
ABC
2:30-3:30pm
0.4
586
College Rugby Championships
6/1
NBC
4:00-6:00pm
0.4
555
TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RATING
VIEWERS
(000)
NBA Western Conference Finals: Spurs-Thunder: Game 6
5/31
TNT
8:30-11:40pm
4.9
8,151
NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 5
5/28
ESPN
8:33-11:17pm
4.7
7,313
NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 4
5/26
ESPN
8:32-11:12pm
4.4
7,002
NBA Western Conference Finals: Spurs-Thunder: Game 5
5/29
TNT
9:00-11:37pm
4.3
6,925
NBA Eastern Conference Finals: Heat-Pacers: Game 6
5/30
ESPN
8:33-11:08pm
4.2
6,877
NBA Western Conference Finals: Spurs-Thunder: Game 4
5/27
TNT
9:00-11:39pm
4.2
6,420
NHL Western Conference Finals: Kings-Blackhawks: Game 7
6/1
NBCSN
8:01-11:16pm
2.3
4,137
NHL Western Conference Finals: Kings-Blackhawks: Game 6
5/30
NBCSN
9:01-11:45pm
1.3
2,278
NHL Western Conference Finals: Kings-Blackhawks: Game 5
5/28
NBCSN
8:01-11:48pm
1.3
2,175
NHL Eastern Conference Finals: Rangers-Canadiens: Game 6
5/29
NBCSN
8:00-10:49pm
1.3
2,123

 

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2014/06/06/Media/Final-Ratings.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2014/06/06/Media/Final-Ratings.aspx

CLOSE