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WORLD CUP SKEDBALL Days 1-6 Updated with ABC Weekend Ratings

At long last we have the World Cup ratings for ABC’s matches on Saturday and Sunday.  The 2:30 pm Sunday match between France and Honduras averaged over 4.3 million total viewers, making it the second highest-rated match...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 15 & Group Stage Summary

Ratings for Thursday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 are in and of course the Germany vs USA match was the highest-rated match of the day, but only the third-highest USA match in World Cup 2014 because ESPN rated 187 minutes...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Ratings for Final USA Match as Round of 16 Ends

Ratings for Tuesday’s ESPN matches have been added to the table below.  The 3:30 pm telecast of Belgium vs USA averaged 13,440,000 persons 2+, just behind the 13,774,000 for USA vs Portugal on Sunday June 22 at 6 pm, a m...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL Day 6

Tuesday’s ESPN coverage of the World Cup featured two matches that had average ratings, and a third match (in the tough 11:30 am time period) that is the lowest-rated so far.  (Yesterday’s match are bolded in th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED: WORLD CUP SKEDBALL (Final Weekend Ratings)

Updated: The ABC ratings for daytime last Sunday are finally in and the 224-minute telecast of the FIFA World Cup Final (from 2:00-5:44 pm ET) averaged over 14 million viewers, making it the #1 match of 2014 on English-languag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 14 and ABC Ratings from Sunday

Ratings for Wednesday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 have arrived and the two on ESPN2 are the lowest-rated matches of 2014 so far (ranking #43 and #44), while the 3:30 pm telecast on ESPN (Ecuador and France in a fascinatin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

UPDATED WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Semifinals 2 of 2

UPDATE: The ratings for the Saturday July 5 match on ABC are in (along with the rest of last week’s broadcast ratings outside of prime time, which always take a while).  The Argentina vs Belgium Quarterfinal match averag...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Quarterfinals Ratings (part 1)

Demographic ratings for the Quarterfinals of the 2014 World Cup are starting to roll in.  The two matches on Friday July 4 were a mixed bag.  The 11:30 am match on ESPN2 (Germany vs France) averaged 4.2 million viewers of any...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL Day 5

Wow.  USA vs Ghana on ESPN Monday just missed averaging 10 million viewers over the course of the entire telecast.  This is double what the USA matches did in 2010 from South Africa, and the demographic ratings (almost 6 rati...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 13

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Tuesday have been added to the chart below. World Cup to Date:  2014 is now 69% ahead of 2010 in terms of the total audience (persons aged 2+).  Further, 2014 is 5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 10 & 11

Saturday and Sunday results for ESPN added to the table below.  ABC’s Sunday results to come later this week. If you are looking for an earlier match not listed in today’s Top 10, please visit previous versions of ...
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 June 14 and Sunday June 15, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL Day 2

World Cup 2014 continued Friday with a well-rated match on ESPN Friday at 3 pm (Netherlands versus Spain), which averaged 3.1 million viewers of any age and a 2.09 rating with men 18-49, well above the ESPN average for Group St...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Knockout Stage Opens Big

Ratings for Sunday’s ESPN matches show that the Knockout Stage (starting with the Round of 16) is off to a great start.  The Netherlands vs Mexico match at 11:30 am Sunday averaged 5.7 million persons 2+ watching ESPN on...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Complete Round of 16 Ratings (Updated with ABC)

Ratings are now complete for the Round of 16, the eight matches that start the Knockout Stage, as the Saturday June 28 ratings for ABC have sauntered in.  Two solid matches on that Saturday, ranking #7 and #8 overall (out of 5...
by Mitch Metcalf