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October 6, 2014
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.5-6.2014

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 5, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

NFL: Week 5
[# of metered markets / % of USA for each game]

Sunday
12.8 rating FOX 1 or 4 pm Single
— ARI-DEN [24/ 28%] ATL-NYG [13/ 21%] CHI-CAR [10/ 10%] TB-NO [4/ 4%] STL-PHI [3/ 4%] BUF-DET [2/ 2%]
11.6 rating CBS 1:00 pm Regional
–HOU-DAL [27/ 31%] BAL-IND [11/ 13%] CLE-TEN [7/ 5%] PIT-JAX [3/ 3%]
13.2 rating CBS 4:30 pm National
–KC-SF [27/ 29%] NYJ-SD [26/ 36%]
12.8 rating 8:30 pm NBC
–CIN-NE [56/ 70%]

College Football: Week 6

Saturday
3.9 rating CBS 3:30 pm #3-Alabama at #11-Ole Miss
2.7 rating NBC 3:30 pm #14-Stanford at #9-Notre Dame
2.7 rating ESPN 12:00 pm #6-Texas A&M at #12-Mississippi State
2.3 rating ABC 12:00 pm #20-Ohio State at Maryland
2.3 rating ABC 3:30 pm mostly Wake Forest at #1-Florida State
2.3 rating ABC 8:00 pm #19-Nebraska at #10-Michigan State
2.0 rating ESPN 7:00 pm #15-LSU at #5-Auburn
1.9 rating FOX 7:30 pm Arizona State at #16-USC
1.5 rating ESPN 10:30 pm Utah at #8-UCLA

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
2.0 rating ESPN 2:00 pm Sunday Kansas City, KS

NASCAR Nationwide Series
1.0 rating ESPN 3:30 pm Saturday Kansas City, KS

Formula One
0.16 rating NBCSN 1:30 am Sunday Japanese Grand Prix (live)

Baseball

MLB
NLDS
1.6 rating FS1 3:00 pm Friday SF-WAS Game 1
2.7 rating FS1 7:00 pm Friday STL-LAD Game 1
2.4 rating FS1 5:30 pm Saturday SF-WAS Game 2 (18 innings/ to midnight)
1.2 rating MLBN 9:30 pm Saturday STL-LAD Game 2
ALDS
1.6 rating TBS 12:00 pm Friday DET-BAL Game 2
2.5 rating TBS 9:30 pm Friday KC-LAA Game 2
2.1 rating TBS 3:45 pm Sunday BAL-DET Game 3
2.8 rating TBS 7:30 pm Sunday LAA-KC Game 3

Soccer

English Premier League
Saturday
0.36 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Liverpool vs West Brom
0.68 rating NBC 12:30 pm Aston Villa vs Manchester City
Sunday
0.35 rating NBCSN 7:00 am Manchester United vs Everton
0.54 rating NBCSN 9:00 am Chelsea vs Arsenal
0.29 rating NBCSN 11:00 am West Ham vs QPR

MLS
0.07 rating NBCSN 6:00 pm Saturday New York vs Houston
0.05 rating NBCSN 11:00 pm Saturday San Jose vs Portland

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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.