Posts Tagged ‘mlb’
 

 

The Sked: TUESDAY OFFICIAL RATINGS July 10: All-Star Game Kinda Doesn’t Suck

FOX came in with a 3.2 Adult 18-49 rating for the MLB All-Star Game last night in the official nationals.  This was the lift we expected this morning from the fast nationals and proved to be enough to claim a rebound (albeit...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 17 and Sunday August 18, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television populatio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

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
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings NBA Playoffs Start Solidly; MLB Strikes Out

This weekend, the NBA playoffs got off to a solid start, with the eight games across two days and three networks up 6% from the same time periods last year.  The Lakers, Heat and Celtics/Knicks all broke a 3.5 household rating...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: The Importance of Game 2 in a 7-Game Series

> This afternoon and evening, FOX broadcast a thrilling playoff game which was tied 3-3 through the 11th inning, when Texas Ranger Nelson Cruz hit the first walk-off grand slam in MLB postseason history to defeat the Detroit Ti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 13 and Sunday July 14, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.) ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: CABLE RATINGS September 27-October 3

>Sports dominate the top of the weekly cable ratings chart.  ESPN’s NFL Monday Night Football was #1 again in the cable world, although down from a 7.2 demo rating last week when the more attractive Dallas-Washington...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

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
 

 

 

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...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

Rejoice! Baseball Coverage on TV to Radically Improve

Baseball fans around the country were treated to some wonderful news yesterday: FOX Sports analyst Tim McCarver announced his retirement during a typically long-winded conference call filled with the false humility that is his...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings NBA Playoffs Match Last Year’s Second Weekend

The NBA playoffs continued on three networks this weekend, and the eight games collectively were very close to the comparable games last year (+1% overall).  The two ABC games were the highest-rated by far: a 5.0 household rat...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: World Series Game 1 Ratings (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Game 1 of the 2016 World Series averaged just under 19.4 million viewers 2+ live+same day in the official nationals, second only to 2009 (Phillies-Yankees) in the last decade (and just narrowly behind it).  With the ke...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SHOWBUZZDAILY NETWORK SCORECARD 10.29.2014

  It took Game 7 of the World Series, but America finally watched baseball. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: World Series Forecast

>World Series Game 6 is scheduled to start at 8 pm ET tonight on FOX in St Louis, but the weather might be an issue.  The National Weather Service is predicting an 80% chance of rain tonight there with winds gusting to 22 ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

The Sked: MLB Postseason Hell

> The Postseason just keeps getting worse for MLB and its broadcast partners FOX and TBS.  ALCS Game 4 in Detroit was supposed to have started shortly after 4 pm ET today, but it was raining in Detroit.  FOX is now sa...
by Mitch Salem