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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.27-28.2014

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 27 and Sunday September 28, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

NFL: Week 4

Sunday
8.2 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (1pm: TEN-IND CAR-BAL MIA-OAK BUF-HOU 4pm: JAX-SD) (-13% from 9.4 last year)
10.1 rating FOX 1:00 pm Regional (GB-CHI DET-NYJ TB-PIT) (-1% from 10.2 last year)
16.7 rating FOX 4:30 pm National (mostly PHI-SF also ATL-MIN) (-10% from 18.5 last year)
13.7 rating 8:30 pm NBC (NO-DAL) (+1% from 13.6 last year for NE-ATL)

College Football: Week 5

Saturday
4.0 rating ABC 3:30 pm mostly #1-Florida State at North Carolina State (+111% from 1.9 last year for 2-game regional)
3.1 rating ESPN 12:00 pm Tennessee at #12-Georgia (+61% from 1.9 last year OK ST-W VA)
2.8 rating CBS 3:30 pm Arkansas at #6-Texas A&M (-43% from 4.9 last year for LSU-GA)
2.8 rating ABC 8:00 pm #8-Notre Dame at Syracuse (-32% from 4.1 last year for WISC-OHIO ST)
1.9 rating ESPN 7:00 pm Missouri at #13-South Carolina (-24% from 2.5 last year fro OLE MISS-ALA)
1.8 rating ESPN 10:30 pm Oregon State at #18-USC (+50% from 1.2 last year STAN-WA ST)
1.2 rating FOX 4:15 pm #16-Stanford at Washington (no comparison)
0.9 rating FOX 8:00 pm #7-Baylor at Iowa State (-25% from 1.2 last year for AZ-WASH)
0.7 rating ESPN2 7:30 pm Duke at Miami (-57% from 1.7 last year for TEX A&M-ARK)

Golf

Ryder Cup
1.7 rating NBC 8:00 am Saturday Day 2 (-19% from 2.1 in 2010 in Wales; -47% from 3.2 in 2012 in USA)
1.8 rating NBC 7:00 am Sunday Day 3 (-25% from 2.4 in 2010 in Wales; -56% from 4.1 in 2012 in USA)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
2.1 rating ESPN 2:00 pm Sunday Dover, DE (-5% from 2.2 last year)

NASCAR Nationwide Series
1.2 rating ESPN 3:30 pm Saturday Dover, DE (+4% from 1.1 last year)

Baseball

MLB
1.0 rating FOX 1:00 pm Saturday NYY-BOS (-23% from 1.3 last year for 3-game regional)
0.2 rating FS1 1:00 pm Saturday PIT-CIN (no comparison)

Soccer

English Premier League
Saturday
0.29 rating NBCSN 7:40 am Liverpool vs Everton
0.37 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Manchester United vs West Ham
0.XX rating NBCSN 12:30 pm Arsenal vs Tottenham
Sunday
0.19 rating NBCSN 11:00 am West Brom vs Burnley

MLS
0.11 rating NBCSN 3:00 pm Saturday Washington DC vs Philadelphia

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.