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Monday:
First Take: 450K
Barstool Rundown: 310K
Undisputed: 93K
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2.446 million viewers for the WNBA Draft on ESPN from 7:30-9:29 PM ET.
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Top sports from the weekend:
NC State/Duke, CBS: 15.1m
Tennessee/Purdue, CBS: 10.4m
Colorado/Iowa, ABC: 6.9m
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The actual world’s fastest growing sports media podcast.
#1
episode in ALL CATEGORIES not just Sports & Recreation. Pretty good.
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source: 14.693 million viewers for SDSU/UConn championship.
Still > than any of last year's NBA Finals games.
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viewership averages:
Cubs-Indians game 7: 40.015 million
Cavs-Warriors game 7: 31.018 million
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Conference Championships per ShowBuzzDaily:
SEC LSU/Georgia: 10.894M
Big 10 Purdue/Mich: 10.699M
Big 12 Ks State/TCU: 9.413M
Pac 12: Utah/USC: 5.967M
ACC: 3.467M
AAC: 2.695M
Mt. West: 1.938M
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ICYMI: the 6.2 overnight rating for Blues/Bruins was the highest overnight rating ever recorded for an NHL game since they began tracking it in 1994.
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Wake Forest/LSU insta-classic CWS game averaged 2.091M on ESPN2.
The NBA Draft on ESPN averaged 2.717M.
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Women’s College World Series > Men’s College World Series by the numbers:
http://t.co/yIiELpIM0z
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LSU/Florida College World Series viewership:
Game 3: 3.428 million viewers (!)
Game 2: 2.196 million
Game 1: 2.579 million
Game 3 was Monday's top telecast of the day broadcast or cable.
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I can't wait for "Who stayed in the locker room?" Twitter.
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Am told that on CW's flagship station (WPIX in NYC) LIV Golf averaged a 0.08 household rating and 7,679 viewers on Saturday.
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Chicago/Houston NWSL final on CBS: 653,000 (The debut match a few weeks ago also on CBS, averaged 572,000)
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4.9m for West Virginia/Iowa women's hoops on ESPN.
Easily was the most-watched cable program of the day.
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women's college hoops rising to "the game is rigged for ratings!" levels wasn't on my BINGO card.
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Tuesday:
First Take: 436K
Barstool Rundown: 242K
Undisputed: 91K
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most-watched sporting telecasts of the weekend:
7/9: NASCAR Cup Series, USA: 2.56 million
7/8: Mexico/Costa Rica Gold Cup, UNI: 2.472M
7/9: USA/Canada Gold Cup, UNI, 2.323M
7/8: FOX MLB Saturday: 2.201M
7/9: PGA John Deere Classic, CBS: 1.587M
7/9: US Women's Open, NBC: 1.548M
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Friday cable sports:
Ms St/UCONN(ESPN2): 2.763M
Rockets/Warriors ESPN: 2.213M
Spurs/Thunder: 1.609M
Stanford/SC (ESPN2): 1.497M
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Penn State/Purdue CFB on Fox: 3.51M
West Virginia/Pitt on ESPN: 3.152M
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Highest-rated (percentage of market) NFL games in local markets through week 7:
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Michigan/Michigan State Big Noon Saturday averaged 9.289M. Most-watched game of the year so far.
Primetime Penn State/Ohio State: 7.051M
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LSU/Fla State: 9.165m
Colorado/TCU: 7.262m
Ohio State/Indiana: 4.646m
WVU/Penn State: 3.497M
Nebraska/Minn: 3.492
North Carolina/South Carolina: 3.4m
Oregon St/San Jose St: 3.234m
Rice/Texas: 3.21m
Northwestern/Rutgers: 2.679m
Virginia/Tennessee: 2.464m
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Tennessee-A&M (CBS): 6.55M
FSU-Mia (ABC): 5.54M
Ala-Ark (ESPN): 4.44M
Notre Dame-NC St (ABC): 3.72M
Texas-Oklahoma (FS1) 2.79M
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Top NFL Local team markets through week 14 by household rating (% of households watching in market):
rating/share:
1. Buffalo/Bills, 43.1/76
2. Kansas City/Chiefs, 42.1/78
3. Milwaukee/Packers, 33.6/70
4. New Orleans/Saints, 33.6/65
5. Pittsburgh/Steelers, 32.4/68
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Out of my lane prediction: Dan Orlovsky will have the opportunity to leave ESPN for a CBS or Fox NFL booth.
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Pebble Beach PGA (Saturday), CBS: 1.951m
LIV Golf (Saturday), CW: 168K
LIV Golf (Sunday), CW: 432K
Misc sports for the weekend:
Pro Bowl, ABC: 3.850m + 1.826m on ESPN
Duke/UNC, ESPN: 3.2m
Knicks/Lakers, ABC: 2.7m
Tenn/Kentucky, ESPN: 2.5m
Purdue/Wisc, CBS: 2.2m
Iowa/Md (women), Fox: 1.6m
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On Tony Kornheiser's podcast yesterday he wondered what the local viewership of the LIV tournament was in DC market since it was played locally.
The Saturday coverage averaged 3,404 viewers (three thousand, three hundred and four) in DC and the Sunday coverage averaged 5,742.
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Kershaw $33mm/yr. Whole Pads 25-person roster $28M, so...Padres getting better value for their 1 hit?
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Louisville/Ole Miss was Labor Day's top cable original with 3.078 million viewers.
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Record USWNT group stage viewership on an English-language network for USA-Netherlands.
6.429 million viewers.
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5.8 million average viewership for "The Match" per Turner it was the most-watched golf telecast in cable TV history.
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WWE RAW, USA:
8p: 2.887M
9p:3.092M
10p:2.951M
NBA Awards Show, TNT: 1.785M
Florida/LSU CWS, ESPN: 1.773M
Big 3 Basketball, FS1: 398K
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most-viewed sports events of the weekend:
Lakers/Nuggets gm 1, ABC: 5.652m
Mavs/Clippers gm 1, ABC: 4.661m
NASCAR Taladega, Fox: 4.307m
76ers/Knicks gm1, ESPN: 4.192m
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13.5 Million for Titans/Steelers across NBC & NFL Network
3.0 Million for Warriors/Celtics on TNT
1.3 Million for Rockets/Suns
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Almost missed the most compelling ratings story of the weekend!
CWS: Notre Dame/Oklahoma on ESPN2: 1.332M
MLB: White Sox/Astros on ESPN: 1.084M
The CWS coverage started a half hour later but they mostly went against each other.
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Liberty (Mississippi St/Texas Tech): 3.9M
First Responder (Air Force/Louisville): 2.7M
Guaranteed Rate (West Va/Minnesota): 2.4M
Birmingham (Houston/Auburn): 2.3M
"too many bowl games" Twitter is some funny shit.
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.
@UMBCAthletics
historic win over
@UVAMensHoops
on TNT Friday was the most-watched cable telecast of the day with 3.533 million viewers per minute.
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Overnight ratings:
Cubs-Indians gm 7: 25.2
Cavs-Warriors gm 7 18.9
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19.065 million for Ohio State/Michigan on Fox.
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Ravens/Steelers NFLN: 14.8 million
Cavs/Warriors ABC: 10.1 million
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Top local markets (household rating/share) for Washington/Michigan CFP Championship per source:
1. Detroit: 26.9/57
2. Seattle: 20.7/56
3. Columbus: 19.7/50,
4. Atlanta: 14.7/40
5. Austin: 13.6/42
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"I think all the major professional sports should band together and talk about how watching their sport on traditional television is a better experience than watching it online." -
@mcuban
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TCU/Georgia CFP Championship quarter hours (sum of ESPN/ESPN2/ESPNU):
8P ET: 20.33M
8:15: 21.85M
8:30: 22.365M
8:45: 22.18M
9:00: 20.795M
9:15: 16.226M
9:30: 15.885M
9:45: 16.24M
10:00P: 14.95M
10:15: 13.34M
10:30: 11.8M
10:45: 10.3M
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LOL
"They all doubted us. I don't wanna hear any different."
@PatrickMahomes
was ready for this speech.
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Oklahoma's win over Auburn in the Women's College Softball World Series led Wednesday cable sports with 1.476 million viewers
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Top local markets for NBA finals (household rating avg of all 5 games):
1. Denver: 21.55
2. Miami-Ft. Lauderdale: 14.8
3. West Palm Beach: 10.9
4. Milwaukee: 8.54
5. Richmond-Petersburg: 8.51
6. San Antonio: 8.26
7. San Francisco: 7.98
8. Memphis: 7.95
9. Chicago: 7.61
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We'll miss you, Dallas Cowboys:
First Take ESPN:
Monday: 851K
Tuesday: 438K
Undisputed FS1:
Monday: 283K
Tuesday: 102K
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The Deion effect is real and spectacular for ratings.
Colorado/CSU drew a 16.1 household rating in Denver Saturday night (8PM local) on ESPN.
That's up from a 15.0 for Nebraska/Colorado at noon (10A local) on Fox the previous week.
National viewership out tomorrow.
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Team "there are not enough bowl games".
Tuesday's Texas Bowl: 2.4 million viewers.
Wednesday's Warriors/Mavs: 1.7M
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"There are more bets on the Browns to win AFC North than the other three teams combined. Only the Raiders and Steelers have more bets to win the AFC. The public likes the Browns, and I'm not sure why." -Caesars Palace sportsbook manager
Bettors emptying their wallets to bet the Browns to win the Super Bowl. WUT.
@DavidPurdum
explains
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Not to be an anarchist but among adults 18-49 European soccer (Liverpool/Real Madrid) was a bigger deal than everything American except NBA.
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Sadder than being the dude who trashes the viewership of "left winger" shows and then gets a show that does less than 50,000 viewers? Sadder than Charlie Dixon and Eric Shanks are about that?
It’s a sad era we’re in when far left wingers immediately brand any opinion they disagree with as racist or sexist. That doesn’t strengthen your argument at all because it isn’t an argument, it’s a personal attack designed to silence those who disagree. It’s why Trump won too.
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45K for LOCK IT IN on FS1 Tuesday from 4:30-5:30p. Same hour Highly Questionable/Around the Horn averaged 537K on ESPN.
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WS Game 7 viewership:
2002 Giants-Angels: 30.4M
2001 Yankees-DBacks: 39.1M
1997 Indians-Marlins: 37.99M
1991 Twins-Braves: 50.3M
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AAF on NFL Network 2/23-2/24:
Saturday 8p: 491K (last week 424K)
Sunday 8p: 515K (last week 425K)
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Tuesday's First Take averaged 892,000 viewers. Tuesday's Undisputed averaged 165,000 viewers.
Words cannot do justice to how poorly this was represented in my timeline.
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Eagles/Chiefs: 28.958 million viewers across ABC, ESPN & ESPN2. Top MNF game of the year (and top NFL game of the year, too. Pretty good.)
Breakout:
ABC 15.549m
ESPN: 11.489m
ESPN2: 1.92m
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wow. of all the things, think this is the key one. Last week when Jalen & Jacoby averaged 139,000 its lead-in was an SC that averaged 174K
Lead in for the show drew 61,000 viewers. Lead out was 39,000 viewers. So BVT improved on both.
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If TNT loses the NBA, I don't think any content is available that would justify the fees distributors pay to carry TNT.
@SportsTVRatings
if TNT loses NBA where do they do for content. More NHL/MLB? Do they dabble into the UFL if there’s expansion?
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#of
households subscribing to ESPN:
July 2015: 92.940M
Feb 2016: 90.988M
June 2016: 89.465M
July 2016: 89.012M
Aug 2016: 88.781M
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Pacers/Lakers in-season tourney final on ABC averaged 4.141 million viewers
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Bengals/Jags MNF: 16.445 million viewers across ABC, ESPN & ESPN2
NBA In-Season Tournament quarterfinals across TNT & truTV:
Celtics/Pacers: 1.063m
Pelicans/Kings: 741K
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CFP Championship overnight ratings on ESPN:
2017: Clemson/Alabama: (15.3 combined)
2016: Alabama/Clemson: 15.8
2015. Ohio St/Oregon: 18.5
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ABC, CBS, FOX & NBC reach is down to ~88 million homes. That's out of Nielsen's ~123.8M TV homes which include "broadband only" i.e., there are ~36 million TV homes that don't have any traditional TV.
The ~88m includes YouTube TV, etc and people using antennas.
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Per Nielsen ESPN shed another 453,000 subscribers from June to July estimates (89.465 million to 89.012 million)
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Wednesday:
First Take: 405K
Barstool Rundown: 230K
Undisputed: 84K
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ESPN Says the 9.3 million for Louisville-Clemson was 3rd most-watched regular season Saturday Night Football game ever:
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weekend NBA Playoffs:
Lakers/Suns: 4.434M ABC
Celtics/Nets: 3.821M ABC
Hawks/Knicks: 2.995M TNT
Grizz/Jazz: 2.735M TNT
Mavs/Clippers: 2.638M ESPN
Portland/Denver: 2.296M ESPN
Heat/Bucks: 2.064M ESPN
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2.16 million for Houston/Cincinnati on ESPN - up from last years 1.9 million for Clemson-Louisville
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Not many sports stories are big enough for The Wall Street Journal to send as a news alert to subscribers.
This one is:
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Per
@CBSSportsGang
top 5 mkts rating/share for single header coverage yesterday:
1. Kansas City 39.6/69
2. Buffalo 36.4/67
3. Boston 33.0/65
4. Providence 26.3/50
5. Nashville 25.2/49
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per very kind source: 14.823m for Purdue/UConn Men's NCAA Championship across TBS, TNT and truTV.
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Apologies
@gmfb
, I prioritized poorly yesterday so I missed this from Monday's ratings.
Good Morning Football, NFLN 7-10A ET: 191,000
Undisputed, FS1: 9:30-Noon ET: 175,000
Monday was also GMFB's best day ever with viewership among adults 18-49.
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6.7m for UConn/USC
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MLS All Star Game:
ESPN: 334K
Univision/TUDN: 1.2M
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College football is back!
Top 4 most-watched week 1 CFB games:
Notre Dame/Ohio State: 10.5 million viewers
Florida St/LSU: 7.554M
Oregon vs Georgia: 6.2M
Colorado St/Michigan: 3.9M
All the rest on
@ShowBuzzDaily
’s great weekly “Skedball”
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tip for
@ColinCowherd
— it’s something that garners as much attention as FS1 studio shows but costs much, much less to produce.
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Denver North Dakota on ESPN2 bettered Red Wings/Bruins on NBCSN 361K to 266K
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Louisville/Iowa Women's March Madness: 2.499M
XFL, Saturday 1P ABC: 1.047M
Pro Bull Riding, Sunday Noon CBS: 1.001M
NHL*, Saturday 8P ABC: 922K
XFL*, Sunday 3P ABC: 753K
*had Men's March Madness competition
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Saturday CFB:
Fla-Tenn: 5.54M
LSU-Aub: 4.1M
Ark-Tex A&M: 3.87M
Stanford-UCLA 3.79M
Penn State-Mich: 3.76M
GA-Ole Miss: 2.7M
Duke-ND: 2.63M
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Northern Iowa/North Dakota State football on ESPN: 1.644M
North Carolina/Texas college hoops: 1.257M
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While the Barstool dynamics are more interesting to me personally, let me be clear: ESPN shit the bed here.
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That “unwatchable” Jags-Bills game did a 17.2 overnight rating. Seventeen point two.
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Congrats to
@icecube
: getting to viewership of over a million for this in BIG3's 2nd season is a very impressive accomplishment.
-- BIG3 tops million viewer mark for first time in championship game
-- NFL preseason games down Friday night
-- Tiger lifts PGA Northern Trust to highest audience on Golf Channel since 2013
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242K for Barstool Rundown on Tuesday. A week earlier at midnight a Workaholics repeat averaged 146K.
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Big Mannings! they more than doubled last week.
Monday Night Football:
ESPN: 11.901M
ESPN2: 1.856M
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the Liga Mx matches on Univision Saturday & Sunday (1.375M & 1.280M) easily outperformed all the other soccer on TV last week as well as all the nationally televised NHL playoffs (yes, even the ones on NBC)
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