Posts Tagged ‘football’
 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.14-15.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 11.7-8.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday November 7 and Sunday November 8, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popul...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.30-11.1.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 31 and Sunday November 1, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popul...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 10.3-4.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday October 3 through Sunday October 4, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US television popu...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.19-20.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 19 through Sunday September 20, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US televisio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

SKEDBALL: Weekend Sports TV Ratings 9.12-13.2015

The ratings below are household ratings from the 56 television markets with local Nielsen meters for Saturday September 12 through Sunday September 13, 2015. The 56 markets (out of 210 total) cover about 70% of the US televisio...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Day 6

Tuesday’s ESPN coverage of the World Cup featured two matches that had average ratings, and a third match (in the tough 11:30 am time period) that is the lowest-rated so far.  (Yesterday’s match are bolded in th...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Day 5

Wow.  USA vs Ghana on ESPN Monday just missed averaging 10 million viewers over the course of the entire telecast.  This is double what the USA matches did in 2010 from South Africa, and the demographic ratings (almost 6 rati...
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
 

 
 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL — Day 2

World Cup 2014 continued Friday with a well-rated match on ESPN Friday at 3 pm (Netherlands versus Spain), which averaged 3.1 million viewers of any age and a 2.09 rating with men 18-49, well above the ESPN average for Group St...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 

 

WORLD CUP SKEDBALL – Day 1

World Cup 2014 has arrived, and ESPN has to be very encouraged with the audience for the opening match (host country Brazil versus Croatia).  Yesterday the match averaged 4,040,000 total viewers (any age) and a 1.72 adult 18-4...
by Mitch Metcalf
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  NECESSARY ROUGHNESS:  Wednesday 10PM on USA Sometimes even a moderately successful sports team will decide to shake things up and change the line-up (just ask the Clippers, Nets and Grizzlies at the moment), and that ti...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  Professional sports are so central to American culture, and so particularly critical to the television business, that it’s surprising the area had been largely ignored as the locale of a series until USA’s NE...
by Mitch Salem
 

 
 

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Necessary Roughness”

  A very busy season of NECESSARY ROUGHNESS came to an end tonight with an unusually far-fetched hour.  The show isn’t exactly known for its hard-hitting realism, but this episode, written by series creators Liz Kru...
by Mitch Salem
 

 

 

THE SKED’S SUNDAY NETWORK SCORECARD – 8/26/12

Even exhibition football is football. NBC:  NFL PRESEASON FOOTBALL took the night with a 2.9, which is just a taste of what the numbers will be in a few weeks when the real thing returns.  Even a MADDEN NFL pre-show came in 2...
by Mitch Salem