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February 1, 2016
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 1.30-31.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 30 and Sunday January 31, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same calendar weekend last year.

NFL

5.03 rating ESPN 7:00 pm Sunday Pro Bowl
(vs 5.6 rating 2015 ESPN 8:00 and 6.7 rating 2014 NBC 7:30)

NBA

Saturday
2.55 rating ABC 8:30 pm San Antonio at Cleveland

Sunday
2.29 rating ABC 3:30 PM Chicago at LA Clippers

College Basketball

Saturday
0.90 rating CBS 1:00 pm Virginia at Louisville

Sunday
0.63 rating FOX 12:00 pm Villanova at St John’s
1.51 rating CBS 1:00 pm Maryland at Ohio State

Golf

PGA: Farmer’s Insurance Open (La Jolla, CA)
1.07 rating CBS 3:00 pm Saturday Third Round
1.69 rating CBS 3:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Returns soon

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Returns soon

INDYCAR
Returns soon

FORMULA ONE
Returns soon

Soccer

Premier League

not scheduled

NHL

Saturday
0.69 rating NBCSN 7:00 pm All-Star Skills Competition

Sunday
1.17 rating NBCSN 5:00 pm All-Star Game

Other

X Games Aspen
0.78 rating ABC 1:00 pm Saturday
n/a rating ESPN 12:00 pm Sunday

UFC Fight Night
1.68 rating FOX 8:00 pm Saturday

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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.