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FOX SCORES WITH MLB: For the second year in a row, week four of Fox’s Saturday baseball coverage featured three regional interleague games. This year’s offerings drew an average of 3.2 million households, up 47.6 percent over 2004. Fox’s season-to-date average audience of 3.69 million weekly viewers is the second-highest in the network’s 10 years as an MLB broadcast rights holder, trailing only a 3.85 million mark posted in 2003.
RATINGS MATCH THE HYPE: More than 1.77 million households watched ESPN’s coverage of the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs in their first meeting since 1918 in a game that counted. That’s up 31.9 percent over the network’s Boston-Los Angeles interleague game on the comparable Sunday last year. The game trailed only coverage related to the NBA ‘s Eastern Conference Finals Game 7 among top-rated cable sports shows for the week.

 
TOP 10 NETWORK SPORTS TELECASTS
RANK NET PROGRAM
DATE
RATING
SHARE
HOUSEHOLDS WATCHING (000S)
1
 ABC NBA FINALS: DETROIT-SAN ANTONIO (GAME 1)
6/9
7.2
13
7862
2
 ABC NBA FINALS: DETROIT-SAN ANTONIO (GAME 2)
6/12
6.9
12
7517
3
 FOX NASCAR: NEXTEL CUP SERIES POCONO 500
6/12
5.6
14
6154
4
 NBC BELMONT STAKES
6/11
5.4
13
5874
5
 FOX NASCAR: POCONO 500 PRERACE
6/12
3.5
10
3870
6
 NBC BELMONT STAKES PRERACE
6/11
3.4
9
3743
7
 ABC NBA GAMETIME: GAME 1 PREGAME
6/9
3.3
6
3596
8
 ABC NBA GAMETIME: GAME 2 PREGAME
6/12
3.2
6
3542
9
 FOX MLB: SATURDAY BASEBALL (REGIONAL COVERAGE)
6/11
2.9
8
3201
10
 ABC PGA: BOOZ ALLEN CLASSIC (FINAL ROUND)
6/12
2
5
2187
TOP 10 CABLE SPORTS TELECASTS
-- RATING --
RANK NET PROGRAM
DATE
NATIONAL
COVERAGE AREA
SHARE
HOUSEHOLDS WATCHING (000S)
1
 TNT NBA PLAYOFFS: DETROIT-MIAMI (GAME 7)
6/6
6.2
7.5
12
6750
2
 TNT NBA PLAYOFFS: DETROIT-MIAMI PREGAME
6/6
2.8
3.4
6
3036
3
 TNT INSIDE THE NBA: DETROIT-MIAMI POSTGAME
6/6
2.3
2.8
5
2506
4
 ESPN MLB: SUNDAY NIGHT BASEBALL (BOSTON-CHICAGO CUBS)
6/12
1.6
2
3
1775
5
 ESPN NCAA: SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES (MICHIGAN-UCLA, G3)
6/8
1.5
1.8
3
1644
6
 FX NASCAR: BUSCH SERIES FED. AUTO PARTS 300, RAIN DELAY
6/11
1.2
1.5
3
1272
7
 FX NASCAR: BUSCH SERIES FED. AUTO PARTS 300 PRERACE
6/11
1.1
1.4
3
1177
8
 FX NASCAR: POCONO 500 QUALIFYING
6/11
0.9
1.2
3
1024
9
 ESPN NCAA: SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES (MICHIGAN-UCLA, G1)
6/6
0.8
1
2
913
10
 ESPN NCAA: SOFTBALL WORLD SERIES (MICHIGAN-UCLA, G2)
6/7
0.8
1
2
893
Rating — Estimated percent of all TV households of persons tuned to a specific program source. One ratings point equals 1,096,000 homes.
Share — Estimated percent of all households using television at that time which are tuned to a specific program source.Source: Nielsen Media Research

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