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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.20-21.2014

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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 September 20 and Sunday September 21, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

NFL: Week 3

Sunday
12.2 rating FOX 1 or 4 pm Single (1pm: WAS-PHI DAL-STL MIN-NO GB-DET 4pm: SF-ARI) (-8% from 13.3 last year)
11.1 rating CBS 1:00 pm Regional (BAL-CLE OAK-NE IND-JAX TEN-CIN HOU-NYG SD-BUF) (+44% from 7.7 last year)
16.9 rating CBS 4:30 pm National (mostly DEN-SEA also KC-MIA) (+16% from 14.6 last year)
12.3 rating 8:30 pm NBC (PIT-CAR) (-9% from 13.5 last year for CHI-PIT)

College Football: Week 4

Saturday
5.1 rating CBS 3:30 pm Florida at #3-Alabama (+70% from 3.0 last year for TENN-FLA)
4.9 rating ABC 8:00 pm #22-Clemson at #1-Florida State (+58% from 3.1 last year for 2-game regional)
2.08 rating ESPN 10:30 pm #2-Oregon at Washington State (no comparison)
1.9 rating FOX 7:30 pm #4-Oklahoma at West Virginia (+46% from 1.3 last year for ASU-STAN)
1.87 rating ESPN 7:00 pm Mississippi State at #8-LSU (-4% from 1.94 last year for AUB-LSU)
1.7 rating ABC 3:30 pm Utah at Michigan or #6-Texas A&M at SMU (-15% from 2.0 last year for 2-game regional)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
2.2 rating ESPN 2:00 pm Sunday Loudon NH (same as 2.2 last year)

NASCAR Nationwide Series
0.48 rating ESPNEWS 7:30 pm Saturday Kentucky (-24% from 0.63 last year)

IndyCar
n/a

Formula One
0.31 rating NBCSN 7:30 am Singapore Grand Prix (+24% from 0.25 last year)

Baseball

MLB
1.5 rating FOX 1:00 pm Saturday DET-KC or LAD-CHC (+15% from 1.3 last year for 2-game regional)
0.25 rating FS1 7:00 pm Saturday CIN-STL

Soccer

English Premier League
Saturday
0.22 rating NBCSN 7:40 am QPR vs Stoke
0.31 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Aston Villa vs Arsenal
0.70 rating NBC 12:30 pm West Ham vs Liverpool
Sunday
0.24 rating CNBC 8:30 am Manchester United vs Leicester
0.52 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Manchester City vs Chelsea

MLS
0.08 rating NBCSN 5:00 pm Saturday Portland at Vancouver
0.10 rating NBCSN 7:30 pm Saturday New York at Seattle

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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.