Archive for May, 2009

After magical ratings for the first five games, the Eastern Conference Finals fell back towards earth on Saturday night. Cavaliers/Magic Game 6 drew a 5.2 U.S. rating and 8.3 million viewers according to Nielsen Fast [...]

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals was the top attraction on broadcast Saturday night. Penguins/Red Wings Game 1 averaged 4.5 million viewers and drew a 1.7 rating among adults 18-49 in prime time Saturday [...]

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First, the results of last week’s predictions.Source: Sports Business Daily Sport Game/Event Net Prediction Final rating NBA Lakers/Nuggets Game 3 ABC 4.2 5.4 ABC’s lone telecast in the Conference Finals drew a 5.4 rating last [...]

The NHL heads into the Stanley Cup Finals with ratings up on its U.S. television partners NBC and Versus. Eight Stanley Cup Playoff telecasts averaged a 1.1 rating on NBC, up 22% from a 0.9 [...]

Though the big-market Los Angeles Lakers are usually assumed to move the needle more than any other team in the NBA, the two largest cable audiences in NBA playoff history have involved teams from the [...]

The Cornell/Syracuse Men’s College Lacrosse Final drew a 0.5 U.S. rating (0.6 cable) on ESPN Monday afternoon, flat from last year. To put that in perspective, that more than doubles the 0.2 U.S. rating (0.3 [...]

It barely qualifies as a sporting event — even to ABC, which listed it as a non-sports program in a press release — but the Scripps National Spelling Bee put up decent numbers. The 2009 [...]

After two straight nights of record ratings, the NBA Conference Finals cooled off slightly on Wednesday. Game 5 between the Nuggets and Lakers drew a 5.6 U.S. rating (6.5 cable) and 9.2 million viewers on [...]