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October 21, 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 19 and Sunday October 20, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)

 

College Football Week 8

Top Games on Saturday

4.5 rating 3:30 CBS #24 Auburn at #7 Texas A&M

3.7 rating 8:00 ABC #5 Florida State at #3 Clemson

3.3 rating 3:30 ABC Iowa at #4 Ohio State (25 markets) or #9 UCLA at #13 Stanford (31 markets)

2.5 rating 7:30 NBC USC at Notre Dame

2.42 rating 12:00 ESPN #11 South Carolina at Tennessee

1.9 rating 12:00 CBS #15 Georgia at Vanderbilt

1.33 rating 7:00 ESPN Arkansas at #1 Alabama

1.24 rating 7:00 ESPN2 #6 LSU at Ole Miss

1.19 rating 3:30 ESPN #18 Oklahoma at Kansas

1.1 rating 12:00 FOX TCU at #21 Oklahoma State

0.73 rating 10:00 FS1 Oregon State at California

 

NFL Week 7

Sunday NFL Packages — Ranking

17.4 rating NBC 8:30 pm DEN-IND (+49% from 11.7 last year for PIT-CIN)

15.2 rating CBS 4:30 pm mostly BAL-PIT/HOU-KC (-6% from 16.2 last year)

11.8 rating FOX 1:00 pm mostly DAL-PHI/SF-TEN (-8% from 12.8 last year)

10.7 rating CBS 1:00 pm mostly NE-NYJ/CIN-DET (+49% from 7.2 last year)

 

MLB

4.4 rating TBS Friday 8:30 pm NLCS LAD-STL Game 6 (no comparison)

6.4 rating FOX Saturday 8:00 pm ALCS DET-BOS Game 6 (+16% from 5.5 for STL-SF G6 last year)

 

NASCAR

2.7 rating ESPN Sunday 2:00 pm Talladega 500 (-10% 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.