The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 23 and Sunday November 24, 2013. (The 56 markets out of 210 total cover about 70% of the US television population.)   College Football Week 13: Top National Games on Saturday 4.8 rating CBS 3:30 #12-Texas A&M at […]

  AFTERNOON UPDATE:  NBC wasn’t able to exclude the 8PM half-hour of its WINTER OLYMPICS coverage, and consequently its rating stayed at 5.0, just barely above the 2d-lowest night of Turin  And without getting too far into spoiler territory, tonight’s ratings may end up being disappointing as well.  CRIMINAL MINDS gained back 0.1 of its […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 5 and Sunday October 5, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. NFL: Week 5 [# of metered markets / % of USA for each game] Sunday 12.8 […]

The NCAA Basketball Tournament, March Madness, began rather quietly Tuesday night with two of “First Four” play-in games.  The 6:30 pm game last night averaged 903,000 persons 2+, somewhat below the 1 million number for the comparable games the last two years, also on TRU TV.  The demographics were also a little below normal for […]

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday August 8 and Sunday August 9, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. Click here for a look at sports ratings from the same weekend last year. Football NFL: […]

Scroll down for the complete round-up of Super Bowl Sunday (pre-game and post-game), as well as other sports over the weekend in the normal SKEDBALL weekly format.  But first, Super Bowl tracks for metered market overnight ratings.  National ratings will be posted as available. Super Bowl Ratings Track: HOUSEHOLDS (HH) Metered Markets National Last eight years […]

Here are the weekend sports ratings for Saturday and Sunday July 30-31, 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.  [Chart now updated with TNT’s early day coverage of the PGA Championship.]   For comparison, […]

Here are the full week sports ratings for Monday November 4 through Sunday November 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 […]