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January 11, 2016
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 1.9-10.2016

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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 January 9 and Sunday January 10, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for sports ratings from the same NFL schedule weekend or the same calendar weekend last year.

NFL: Wildcard Weekend

Saturday
16.23 rating 4:30 pm ABC+ESPN Kansas City at Houston
—12.39 rating 4:30 pm ABC
—3.84 rating 4:30 pm ESPN

19.16 rating 8:15 pm CBS Pittsburgh at Cincinnati

Sunday
22.48 rating 1:00 pm NBC Seattle at Minnesota

23.64 rating 4:30 pm FOX Green Bay at Washington

The four Wildcard playoff games in 2016 averaged a 20.4 household rating, up +11% from the 18.3 average rating for the 2015 Wildcard Weekend.

College Basketball

Saturday
n/a rating ESPN 1:00 pm Maryland at Wisconsin
0.90 rating CBS 1:30 pm LSU at Florida
n/a rating ESPN 8:00 pm North Carolina at Syracuse

Sunday
0.65 rating CBS 1:30 pm Ohio State at Indiana

Golf

PGA: Hyundai Tournament of Champions (Kapalua, Maui)
0.95 rating NBC 4:00 pm Saturday Third Round
0.70 rating GOLF 6:00 pm Sunday Final Round

Auto Racing

NASCAR Xfinity Series
Returns next year

NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Returns next year

INDYCAR
Returns next year

FORMULA ONE
Returns next year

Soccer

Premier League

Saturday
n/a

Sunday
n/a

Other

n/a

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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.