Archive for January 15th, 2011

Recent sports TV ratings news, including numbers for the NBA on ESPN, NBA on TNT and college basketball on CBS. ESPN drew a 0.8 and 1.175 million for Rockets/Magic last Friday, down 33% in ratings [...]

Nearing the halfway point of its 96-game slate, NBA TV is averaging over 50% more viewers for its live NBA games than MLB Network did for live baseball coverage during the 2010 season.NBA TV is [...]

NFL viewership climbed to nearly unprecedented heights in the regular season and the first round of the playoffs.As reported on this site earlier in the month, NFL games averaged 17.9 million viewers across NBC, FOX, [...]

During the six-day layoff between the Sugar Bowl and the National Championship Game, ESPN put up some mixed numbers for non-BCS bowl games.The Miami (OH)/Middle Tennessee State GoDaddy.com Bowl earned a 1.7 U.S. rating and [...]

ESPN suffered big declines for last week’s Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl.Nevada’s win over Boston College earned a 1.8 U.S. rating and 2.500 million viewers on ESPN Sunday night, down a whopping 61% in ratings and [...]

In primetime for the first time, the Cotton Bowl hit a 12-year high in ratings on FOX.The LSU/Texas A&M Cotton Bowl earned a 5.8 final rating and 10.014 million viewers on FOX last Friday night, [...]