Archive for September 24th, 2010

Additional sports TV ratings news, including The NFL Today topping FOX NFL Sunday for the second straight week, local ratings for the Texans in Houston, and double-digit declines for college football on ESPN last Friday. [...]

Recent sports TV ratings news, including FOX Saturday Baseball, IndyCar racing on Versus and local ratings for the Rams in St. Louis. Regional MLB action featuring Braves/Mets drew a 1.4 final rating and 1.939 million [...]

The season is still young, but college football coverage has not performed very well for ABC. Regional college football action featuring Nebraska/Washington drew a 2.6 final rating and 4.159 million viewers on ABC last Saturday [...]

CBS began its college football coverage on a lower note last weekend. Saturday’s Florida/Tennessee game drew a 3.3 final rating and 5.149 million viewers on CBS, down 23% in ratings and 22% in viewership from [...]

After calling several World Cup matches for the network earlier this summer, soccer play-by-play voice Ian Darke is headed to ESPN full time. ESPN officially announced Friday that it has hired Darke as the primary [...]

The NFL on CBS is off to the strongest start for the AFC broadcast package since at least the late 1980s. CBS is averaging an 11.7 rating and 19.382 million viewers for NFL coverage through [...]

Ratings and viewership jumped by double-digits for the Week 2 NFL singleheader on FOX. Sunday’s singleheader window, featuring Bears/Cowboys, drew a 10.6 final rating and 17.769 million viewers on FOX — up 10% and 15%, [...]

For the third straight night, the Phillies set a ratings record on Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia. Wednesday’s Braves/Phillies game drew a 15.2 rating on CSN Philadelphia, the highest rating ever for a Phillies regular season game [...]

Recent sports media news, including ESPN coverage of Miami Heat training camp, HBO announcing a new edition of its 24/7 reality series and ESPN locking up the Chick-fil-A Bowl for another four years. ESPN will [...]