Archive for May 30th, 2009

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 [...]