SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings (August 30-31, 2014)

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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 30 and Sunday August 31, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

College Football: Week 1

Saturday
4.1 rating ABC 3:30 pm West Virginia vs #2-Alabama
4.1 rating ABC 8:00 pm #1-Florida State vs Oklahoma State
1.4 rating NBC 3:30 pm Rice vs #17-Notre Dame
2.5 rating ESPN 5:30 pm #16-Clemson vs #12-Georgia
2.5 rating ESPN 9:00 pm #14-Wisconsin vs #13-LSU
2.1 rating ESPN 12:00 pm #7-UCLA vs Virginia
0.92 rating FOX 7:30 pm Fresno State vs #15-USC

SEC Network 4:00 pm Arkansas vs #6-Auburn (n/a)

Golf

PGA Tour: Deutsche Bank Championship (FedExCup Playoff Event 2)
1.8 rating Golf 3:00 pm Sunday 3rd Round (-25% from 2.4 last year)
2.1 rating NBC 1:30 pm Monday Final Round (-16% from 2.5 last year)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
3.0 rating ESPN 7:30 pm Sunday Atlanta GA (same as 3.0 last year)

NASCAR Nationwide Series
1.00 rating ESPN 7:30 pm Saturday Atlanta GA (-2% from 1.02 last year)

IndyCar
0.18 rating NBCSN 9:00 pm Saturday Fontana CA (-18% from 0.22 last year)

Formula One
N/A

Baseball

MLB
0.14 rating FS1 4:00 pm Saturday Cincinnati Reds at Pittsburgh Pirates

Soccer

English Premier League
Saturday
0.31 rating NBCSN 7:40 am Burnley vs Manchester United
0.37 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Manchester City vs Stoke
0.81 rating NBC 12:30 pm Everton vs Chelsea
Sunday
0.38 rating NBCSN 8:25 am Tottenham vs Liverpool
0.40 rating NBCSN 10:55 am Leicester vs Arsenal

MLS
0.11 rating NBCSN 2:30 pm Sunday DC United vs New York

Other

U.S. Open Tennis
1.2 rating CBS 11:00 am Saturday Early round play (same as 1.2 last year)
1.5 rating CBS 11:00 am Sunday Early round play (-6% from 1.6 last year)
1.6 rating CBS 12:30 pm Monday Round of 16 (+33% from 1.2 last year)

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