More Ratings: Tour de France, Horse Racing, NFL Network
Recent sports TV ratings news, including an increase for the Tour de France on CBS, numbers for the debut of Summer of Saratoga horse racing on NBC, and a viewership record for NFL Network. Tour De France Highlights Up on CBS: CBS drew a 0.52 final rating and 855,000 viewers for an hour-long Tour de France highlight show last Sunday, up 11% in ratings and 37% in viewership from last year (0.47, 626K), and up 11% and 19%, respectively, from [...]
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Ratings: MLB on FOX, Formula 1, IndyCar
Recent sports TV ratings news, including a double-digit decline for Major League Baseball on FOX, a double-digit increase for Formula 1 racing on FOX, and a viewership record for IndyCar Series racing on Versus. Double-Digit Decline For MLB on FOX: Regional MLB action featuring Braves/Reds earned a 1.8 final rating and 2.863 million viewers on FOX last Saturday, down 18% in ratings and 14% in viewership from coverage featuring the same matchup last year (ATL/CIN*: 2.2, 3.315M), and flat in [...]
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Golf Update: Big Jump For Canadian Open
Ratings improved substantially for coverage of last week?s PGA Tour Canadian Open on CBS. CBS earned a 1.8 final rating and 2.500 million viewers for final round coverage of the Canadian Open last Sunday, up 50% in ratings and 48% in viewership from last year (1.2, 1.692M), and up 157% and 153%, respectively, from rained out coverage in 2009 (0.7, 988K). This year?s final round ranks as the highest rated and most-viewed since the event moved to its current mid-summer [...]
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Copa America: Substantial Declines For Final Matches
Ratings and viewership declined sharply for the final week of the 2011 Copa America soccer tournament. The Uruguay/Paraguay Copa America final earned a 1.2 final rating and 2.251 million viewers on Univision Sunday afternoon, down 46% in ratings and 50% in viewership from 2007 (BRA/ARG: 2.2, 4.454M). The semifinal matches earned better numbers than Sunday?s final, although both were down from 2007. The July 20 Paraguay/Venezuela semifinal earned a 1.5 and 2.869 million viewers, down 53% in ratings and 59% [...]
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WNBA All-Star Game Up Big, Most-Viewed Since 2007
The overall numbers were minuscule, but the WNBA All-Star Game had a massive increase in viewership on ABC last weekend. The 2011 WNBA All-Star Game earned a 0.54 final rating and 756,000 viewers on ABC Saturday, up 59% in ratings and 76% in viewership from last year?s game on ESPN (0.34, 429K), and up 35% and 46%, respectively, from the 2009 game on ABC (0.40, 519K). Saturday?s game ranks as the highest rated, most-viewed WNBA All-Star Game since 2007 (0.69, [...]
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Big Names: Tim Brewster, Dave Strader, Cleatus the Robot
Recent news involving sports media personalities, including former college football coach Tim Brewster joining Fox Sports, Cleatus the Dancing Robot moving to FOX college football coverage, and NHL announcer Dave Strader officially leaving the Coyotes for NBC Sports Group. Fox Sports Taps Fmr. Gophers Coach Brewster As ?Sideline Analyst?: Former Univ. of Minnesota college football coach Tim Brewster has joined Fox Sports? lead college football broadcast team as a ?sideline analyst?. Though Brewster will work the sidelines, Fox Sports president [...]
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Joe Buck Would Have Hosted Olympics on FOX
Had FOX won rights to the Olympic Games, often criticized play-by-play voice Joe Buck would have hosted the network?s coverage. Fox Sports president Eric Shanks told USA Today that Buck would have hosted the network?s coverage of the 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games had Fox won rights to the event. Buck is currently the lead voice of the network?s NFL and Major League Baseball coverage. Both FOX and ESPN were in the running to acquire rights to the Olympics, but [...]
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ESPN?s Rose Gets Jail Time For DUI
ESPN NBA analyst Jalen Rose will spend just under three weeks in jail for drunken driving. Rose was sentenced to 93 days in Oakland County Jail for driving under the influence, of which he will serve twenty. He will begin his sentence next Tuesday. The nearly three-week jail sentence comes despite the fact that the probation department ?did not recommend jail time? (freep.com, 7/27). According to the Detroit Free Press, the judge in this case ?has a record of sending [...]
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Ratings: Texas Rangers, WNBA on ESPN2, British Open
Recent sports TV ratings news, including the Texas Rangers on Fox Sports Southwest, the WNBA regular season on ESPN2, and tape-delayed coverage of the British Open on ABC. Rangers Hit Season-High on FS Southwest: Sunday?s Blue Jays/Rangers telecast on Fox Sports Southwest drew a 6.0 rating in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market, the highest rated Rangers telecast of the season on the network. So far this season, Rangers games have averaged a 3.7 rating on FS Southwest, up 23% from the [...]
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NBC Replaces Canceled HOF Game With Chargers/Cowboys
NBC has added a preseason matchup involving the high-profile Cowboys to replace the now-canceled NFL Hall of Fame Game. The NFL has moved a Chargers/Cowboys preseason game from Saturday, August 20 to Sunday, August 21 on NBC. The game will start at 8:00 PM ET. The Chargers/Cowboys game will replace the canceled Rams/Bears NFL Hall of Fame Game on NBC?s preseason slate. The NFL preseason will kick off on August 11, with ESPN airing the first nationally televised game of [...]
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