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The Sked: If Detroit Wins Game 4 Tonight, FOX to Panic

If the Detroit Tigers wake up from their offensive slumber (three runs in three games so far) and manage to beat the Giants tonight, a Game 5 becomes necessary.  That game is currently scheduled for Monday night in Detroit, bu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: World Series through Game 3

Game 3 of the World Series on Friday 10.28.2016 averaged just under 19.4 million persons 2+ live+same day and a stellar 5.2 persons 18-49 rating, well above the Game 3 average since 2006 (13.2 million P2+ and a 3.7 P18-49 ratin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: The Sad Downward Slide of World Series Ratings

>Pity the poor Former National Pastime.  In the quarter century that Nielsen has used the PeopleMeter to measure demographic ratings, viewership of the World Series has dropped by more than half in the key advertising...
by Mitch Salem
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 8 and Sunday June 9, 2013.  (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 4.23-24.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 23 and Sunday April 24, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population...
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Baseball Playoffs Continue to Underwhelm

Major League Baseball’s 2012 Playoffs (or Postseason as MLB insists it is called) could not be more competitive or interesting on the field.  Most series in the Division Championship round going the limit to five games, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: World Series Ratings

The World Series begins tonight at historic Fenway Park, as the St Louis Cardinals take on the Boston Red Sox in a re-match of the 2004 Series.  Ratings for the World Series are very erratic.  Since 2003 (the last 10 Series),...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 7.30-31.2016

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 30-31, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and r...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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The Sked: Sunday Week 5 — FOX Steals a Sunday Victory from NBC

It looks like NBC suffered its first Sunday defeat of the new season.  The Sunday Night Football game certainly out-rated Game 4 of the World Series, but FOX built a commanding lead in the 7 pm hour alone with the controversia...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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SKEDBALL: MLB Homerun Derby Clears the Fences

ESPN and MLB tinkered with the Homerun Derby format this year, adding a clock and moving to a bracket format.  It all worked, with the best persons 2+ audience for the ESPN special (7.1 million) since 2009 (8.25 million).  Th...
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SKEDBALL: World Series through Game 5

2016 World Series ratings by Game with average ratings for each Game since 2006. Averages for World Series Games 1-5.  2016 is now #1 since 2006 with total viewers (persons 2+ live+same day) but still #3 since 2006 with the ...
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The Sked: WEDNESDAY RATINGS October 19

>The fast nationals for Wednesday give Game 1 of the World Series a 3.9 Adult 18-49 rating (yet to be time zone adjusted).  Last night we predicted a 3.8 in the fast nationals and a 4.1 in the official nationals.  Thi...
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)...
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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 4.30-5.1.2016

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, 2016. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
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The Sked: Sunday Ratings and Network Averages for First Three Weeks

NBC had a very typical Sunday night win — we are projecting their Adult 18-49 rating for the night will go up to a 6.3 in the official nationals tomorrow.  FOX should have been a strong second place because it had the NF...
by Mitch Metcalf
 
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