It was American Idol‘s turn to feel the Olympics pain. NBC:  See Mitch Metcalf’s SKEDBALL post for details on last night’s Sochi ratings.  After an uptick on Tuesday, Wednesday’s WINTER OLYMPICS coverage fell to 5.6, down a full point from the previous day, and also back to being below the last 3 winter games […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday September 22-23, 2018.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, September 23-24, […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday August 12-13, 2017.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, August 13-14, […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 28 through Sunday October 4, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

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 averaged 4.6 million viewers 2+ (ranking #15 out of 62 matches so far).  In the key sales demographics […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday October 15-16, 2016.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 150K P2+).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size.     For comparison, here is the same chart for the same weekend last year, […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday September 21 through Sunday September 27, 2020.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size now 200K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday February 4 through Sunday February 10, 2019.  Eligible programs include sporting events on broadcast and cable networks (minimum audience size 300K P2+ live+same day).  Programs are grouped by sport and ranked within each sport by P2+ audience size. For comparison, here is the similar chart for the same […]