Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 10-11, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, September 12-13, […]

  NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s Skedball post for detailed analysis of the Sochi WINTER OLYMPICS ratings.  Last night’s preliminary 4.5 slumped badly, down 1.4 from Thursday and below all 3 of the previous Winter Games on the parallel night.  NBC will hope this drop was solely due to Valentine’s Day.  Despite the over 2 point […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday October 11 through Sunday October 17, 2021.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 200K Persons 2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. Here is the same week two years […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 15 and Sunday November 16, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 11 Sunday 11.7 rating CBS 1 or 4 pm Single (mostly OAK-SD DEN-STL CIN-NO) […]

  NETWORK UPDATE:  MOTIVE crept up 0.1 to 0.8. WEDNESDAY CABLE:  The fall of DUCK DYNASTY (A&E) hasn’t reached bottom, as the show crumbled another 0.3 to 1.2, below FAMILY GUY and BIG BANG THEORY reruns.  Its companion show BIG SMO fell 0.1 to 0.7.  CATFISH (MTV) dropped 0.1 to 0.9.  On USA, SUITS and […]

Chart updated with persons 2+ audiences for the four games played Saturday April 4, 2015 (the Final Four Round): Telecast 65: TBS/TNT/TRU Saturday 6:00 pm #1-Duke 81 #7-Michigan State 61 (Duke up 36-25 at half) Telecast 66: TBS/TNT/TRU Saturday 9:00 pm #1-Wisconsin 71 #1-Kentucky 64 (Tied 36-36 at half) The early Saturday game on TBS/TNT/TRU (telecast 65) averaged 15,307,000 persons 2+ across the […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday March 11-12, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, March 12-13, […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday January 10 and Sunday January 11, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Divisional Playoffs Saturday 20.9 rating NBC 4:30 pm Baltimore at New England 18.8 rating FOX […]