Posts Tagged ‘espn’
 

 

The Sked: Forecast for Monday

Monday night features the premiere of NBC’s temporary schedule until The Voice returns.  The Biggest Loser settles into its new night (after a preview tonight featuring the return of trainer Jillian Michaels) from 8-1...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED: Are You Ready For Some (Thursday) Football?

>   At this point, it would be fairly shocking if the NFL and its players didn’t settle their labor dispute in time to have a full pro football season.  (That sound is NBC falling to its knees in relief.)  ...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 13

Ratings for the simultaneous double-headers on ESPN and ESPN2 Tuesday have been added to the chart below. World Cup to Date:  2014 is now 69% ahead of 2010 in terms of the total audience (persons aged 2+).  Further, 2014 is 5...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Cable Ratings April 3-9

>History’s Pawn Stars returned with original episodes Monday at 10 pm, powering the reality hit to the top of the weekly cable ratings chart to a very good 2.0 rating with Adults 18-49.  That puts Pawn Stars tied for...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday July 19 and Sunday July 20, 2014. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television population. ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports Ratings — NBA Playoffs Start Solidly; MLB Strikes Out

This weekend, the NBA playoffs got off to a solid start, with the eight games across two days and three networks up 6% from the same time periods last year.  The Lakers, Heat and Celtics/Knicks all broke a 3.5 household rating...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Cable Ratings September 6-12

> Jersey Shore’s reign at the top of the weekly cable chart is over.  The NFL double-header on ESPN’s Monday Night Football saw to that.  The early game started at 7:00 ET and scored a 6.3 demo rating, dow...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

UPDATED: WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 14 and ABC Ratings from Sunday

Ratings for Wednesday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 have arrived and the two on ESPN2 are the lowest-rated matches of 2014 so far (ranking #43 and #44), while the 3:30 pm telecast on ESPN (Ecuador and France in a fascinatin...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: Cable Ratings May 22-28

On the cable front this past seven days, only the NBA could stop History’s rampaging Hatfield & McCoys.  On Monday night, Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals (Boston Celtics at Miami Heat) averaged a 4.1 rating ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

The Sked: Thursday Official Nationals with Cable Ratings

The ratings for most network programs came back down to Earth in the official nationals (with the NFL preseason games filtered out of the early ratings, as we explained this morning).  As expected, Big Brother was least impa...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

THE SKED: Cable Ratings September 13-19

> On cable this past week, NFL football was again the top-rated program, and Jersey Shore was in second place, as usual.  But tying for second was the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, which aired 30 minutes after the...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL: Day 15 & Group Stage Summary

Ratings for Thursday’s matches on ESPN and ESPN2 are in and of course the Germany vs USA match was the highest-rated match of the day, but only the third-highest USA match in World Cup 2014 because ESPN rated 187 minutes...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

The Sked: MONDAY RATINGS May 28

NBC dominated the broadcast networks on the first Monday of the summer season with a 1.9 rating from 8-11 pm, although NBC will come in behind ESPN which aired Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals between the Boston Celtics ...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: MLB Homerun Derby Clears the Fences

ESPN and MLB tinkered with the Homerun Derby format this year, adding a clock and moving to a bracket format.  It all worked, with the best persons 2+ audience for the ESPN special (7.1 million) since 2009 (8.25 million).  Th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Days 3 & 4

World Cup 2014 built more momentum over the weekend on ESPN, with the 5:30 pm matches on Saturday and Sunday the highest-rated contests so far on ESPN this year.  Further, even the lowest-rated ESPN match so far in 2014 is abo...
by Mitch Metcalf