SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.6-7.2014

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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 6 and Sunday September 7, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

NFL: Week 1

Sunday
11.1 rating 1:00 pm CBS (CLE-PIT JAX-PHI OAK-NYJ CIN-BAL TEN-KC NE-MIA) (-1% from 11.2 last year)
9.3 rating 1:00 pm FOX Regional (mostly NO-ATL MIN-STL BUF-CHI WAS-HOU) (-9% from 10.2 last year)
17.3 rating 4:30 pm FOX National (mostly SF-DAL CAR-TB) (-3% from 17.8 last year)
15.1 rating 8:20 pm NBC (IND-DEN) (-9% from 16.6 last year for NYG-DAL)

College Football: Week 2

Saturday
4.6 rating ABC 3:30 pm #14-USC at #13-Stanford (+59% from 2.9 last year for 2-game regional)
4.0 rating FOX 6:30 pm #7-Michigan State at #3-Oregon (+109% from 1.9 for WVA-OKLA last year)
3.0 rating NBC 7:30 pm Michigan at #16-Notre Dame (-25% from 4.0 in 2012 for MICH-ND)
2.9 rating ESPN 8:00 pm Virginia Tech at #8-Ohio State (-48% from 5.6 last year for ND-MICH)
2.0 rating ABC 12:00 pm #4-Oklahoma at Tulsa / Akron at Penn State (no comparison)
0.92 rating ESPN 12:00 pm #24-Missouri at Toledo (-75% from 3.72 for FLA-MIA last year)
0.65 rating ESPN 4:30 pm #15-Ole Miss at Vanderbilt (-87% from 4.83 last year for SC-GA)
0.62 rating FS1 7:30 pm BYU-Texas (+589% from 0.09 last year for (LAF-KAN ST)
0.47 rating ESPN2 7:00 pm San Jose State at #5-Auburn (-54% from 1.02 last year for TX-BYU)

Golf

PGA Tour: BMW Championship (FedExCup Playoff Event 3)
1.4 rating NBC 3:00 pm Saturday 3rd Round (-18% from 1.7 last year)
1.46 rating NBC 2:00 pm Sunday Final Round (+57 from 0.93 last year’s rain delay)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
2.8 rating ABC 7:30 pm Saturday Richmond VA (-3% from 2.9 last year)

NASCAR Nationwide Series
0.83 rating ESPN2 7:30 pm Friday Richmond VA (-19% from 1.03 last year on ESPN)

IndyCar
n/a

Formula One
0.32 rating NBCSN 7:30 am Sunday Italian Grand Prix (+33% from 0.24 last year)

Baseball

MLB
1.1 rating FOX 12:30 pm Saturday SF-DET or BAL-TB (-39% from 1.8 last year for 3-game regional)
0.49 rating FS1 4:00 pm Saturday Kansas City at NY Yankees

Soccer

English Premier League
No matches this week

MLS
0.07 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm Saturday New York at Kansas City

Other

U.S. Open Tennis
1.9 rating CBS 12:00-3:30 & 4:15-6:15 pm Saturday Men’s Semifinals (+12% from 1.7 last year)
4.0 rating CBS 4:30 pm Sunday Women’s Finals (-18% from 4.9 last year)

WNBA Finals
0.45 rating ABC 3:30 pm Sunday Game 1 CHI-PHX

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