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SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.13-14.2014

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Written by: Mitch Metcalf
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The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 13 and Sunday September 14, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population.

NFL: Week 2

Sunday
12.3 rating 1 or 4 pm FOX Single (1pm: DAL-TEN ARI-NYG NO-CLE DET-CAR 4pm: STL-TB SEA-SD) (-5% from 12.9 last year)
9.9 rating 1:00 pm CBS Regional (MIA-BUF JAX-WAS NE-MIN ATL-CIN DET-CAR) (-7% from 10.7 last year)
14.6 rating 4:30 pm CBS National (mostly KC-DEN also NYJ-GB HOU-OAK) (-18% from 17.8 last year)
14.0 rating 8:30 pm NBC (CHI-SF) (+3% from 13.6 last year for SF-SEA)

College Football: Week 3

Saturday
4.2 rating CBS 5:00 pm #6-Georgia at #24-South Carolina (-53% from 9.0 last year for ALA-TA&M)
2.2 rating ABC 8:00 pm Tennessee at #4-Oklahoma (-29% from 3.1 last year for ND-PURD)
2.1 rating NBC 7:30 pm Purdue at #11-Notre Dame (-16% from 2.5 last year)
2.1 rating FOX 8:00 pm #12-UCLA at Texas (-13% from 2.4 last year for OHST-CAL)
1.9 rating ABC 12:00 pm mostly Kent State at #22-Ohio State (-32% from 2.8 last year for UCLA-NEB)
1.9 rating ABC 3:30 pm Arkansas at Texas Tech (-10% from 1.9 last year for TENN-ORE)
1.26 rating ESPN 8:00 pm #9-USC at Boston College (+6% from 1.19 last year for V AND-SCAR)
0.93 rating ESPN2 6:00 pm Southern Miss at Alabama (-1% from 0.94 Mississippi State-AUB)
0.63 rating ESPN2 9:30 pm Rice at #7-Texas A&M

Golf

PGA Tour: Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club (FedExCup Playoff Event 4)
1.8 rating NBC 2:30 pm Saturday 3rd Round (+29% from 1.4 last year)
1.7 rating NBC 1:30 pm Sunday Final Round (+6% from 1.6 last year)

Auto Racing

NASCAR Sprint Cup
2.2 rating ESPN 2:00 pm Sunday Joliet IL (+38% from 1.6 last year)

NASCAR Nationwide Series
0.78 rating ESPN2 3:30 pm Saturday Joliet IL (-10% from 0.87 last year)

IndyCar
n/a

Formula One
n/a

Baseball

MLB
1.1 rating FOX 12:30 pm Saturday mostly NY Yankees at Baltimore (-31% from 1.6 last year for NYY-BOS & OAK-TEX)
0.08 rating FS1 8:00 pm Saturday San Diego at Arizona

Soccer

English Premier League
Saturday
0.38 rating NBCSN 7:40 am Arsenal vs Manchester City
0.46 rating NBCSN 10:00 am Chelsea vs Swansea
0.77 rating NBC 12:30 pm Liverpool vs Aston Villa
Sunday
0.40 rating NBCSN 11:00 am Manchester United vs QPR

MLS
0.12 rating NBCSN 3:00 pm Saturday Philadelphia at New York

Other

WNBA Finals
n/a

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About the Author

Mitch Metcalf
MITCH METCALF has been tracking every US film release of over 500 screens (over 2300 movies and counting) since the storied weekend of May 20, 1994, when Maverick and Beverly Hills Cop 3 inspired countless aficionados to devote their lives to the art of cinema. Prior to that, he studied Politics and Economics at Princeton in order to prepare for his dream of working in television. He has been Head of West Coast Research at ABC, then moved to NBC in 2000 and became Head of Scheduling for 11 years.