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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 26 and Sunday October 27, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)

 

College Football Week 9

Top Games on Saturday

2.81 rating 7:00 ESPN #12 UCLA at #3 Oregon
2.8 rating 3:30 CBS Tennessee at #1 Alabama
2.6 rating 8:00 ABC Penn State at #4 Ohio State
2.6 rating 3:30 FOX #10 Texas Tech at #15 Oklahoma
2.0 rating 3:30 ABC NC State at #2 Florida State or Michigan State at Illinois
1.76 rating 7:00 ESPN2 #21 South Carolina at #5 Missouri
1.50 rating 10:30 ESPN #6 Stanford at #25 Oregon State

 

NFL Week 8

Sunday NFL Packages — Ranking

17.5 rating FOX 4:30 pm mostly WAS-DEN (-7% from 18.8 last year)

10.9 rating FOX 1:00 pm mostly DAL-DET (-2% from 11.1 last year)

10.3 rating NBC 8:30 pm GB-MIN (-10% from 11.4 last year for NO-DEN)

10.1 rating CBS 1:00 pm mostly MIA-NE (-1% from 10.2 last year)

 

MLB World Series

8.7 rating FOX Saturday 8:00 pm BOS-STL Game 3 (+21% from 7.2 for SF-DET last year)

10.5 rating FOX Sunday 8:00 pm BOS-STL Game 4 (-1% from 10.6 for SF-DET last year)

 

NASCAR

2.3 rating ESPN Sunday 1:30 pm Old Dominion 500 (+5% from 2.2 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.