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October 14, 2013
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

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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 October 12 and Sunday October 13, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)

 

College Football Week 7

Top Games on Saturday

3.7 rating ABC 12:00 pm # 12 Oklahoma at Texas

3.4 rating CBS 3:30 pm #17 Florida at #10 LSU

3.37 rating ESPN 9:15 pm #9 Texas A&M at Ole Miss

2.61 rating ESPN 5:00 pm #18 Michigan at Penn State (4OT)

2.5 rating ABC 3:30 pm Boston College at #3 Clemson (30 markets) or #19 Northwestern at Wisconsin (26 markets)

1.46 rating ESPN2 7:00 pm #1 Alabama at Kentucky

1.29 rating FS1 4:00 pm #2 Oregon at #16 Washington

0.96 FOX 3:30 pm #15 Baylor at Kansas State

0.70 ESPN2 10:30 pm California at #11 UCLA

 

 

NFL Week 6

Sunday NFL Packages — Ranking

17.5 rating FOX 4:30 pm NO-NE mostly (+9% from 16.1 last year)

13.5 rating NBC 8:30 pm WAS-DAL (+7% from 12.6 last year for GB-HOU)

11.6 rating FOX 1:00 pm mostly GB-BAL (+1% from 11.5 last year)

10.9 rating CBS 1:00 pm mostly PIT-NYJ/TEN-SEA/OAK-KC (-5% from 11.5 last year)

 

MLB

4.2 rating TBS Friday 8:30 pm NLCS LAD-STL Game 1 (-16% from 5.0 for DET-NYY G1 last year)

2.8 rating TBS Saturday 4:00 pm NLCS LAD-STL Game 2 (-24% from 3.7 for DET-NYY G2 last year)

5.0 rating FOX Saturday 8:00 pm ALCS DET-BOS Game 1 (+6% from 4.7 for STL-SF G1 last year)

5.9 rating FOX Sunday 8:00 pm ALCS DET-BOS Game 2 (+37% from 4.3 for STL-SF G2 last year)

 

NASCAR

2.9 rating ABC Saturday 7:30 pm Charlotte 500 (-3% from 3.0 last year)

 



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.