Archive for May 10th, 2011

Recent sports TV ratings news, including the Stanley Cup Playoffs on Versus and NBC, and local ratings for the Flyers in Philadelphia. Red Wings/Sharks Ratings: Game 5 of the Red Wings/Sharks series earned 1.627 million [...]

Ratings and viewership held generally steady for NASCAR’s April 30 race from Richmond. FOX earned a 3.7 final rating and 6.138 million viewers for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Matthew and Daniel Hansen 400 from Richmond [...]

Led by the Heat/Celtics series, Monday’s NBA doubleheader on TNT earned good numbers. TNT averaged a 4.9 overnight rating for coverage of the 2011 NBA Playoffs on Monday night, up 48% from the games on [...]

ESPN and ABC both scored double-digit increases for coverage of the 2011 NBA Playoffs over the weekend. Sunday’s Lakers/Mavericks Game 4 earned a 6.5 overnight rating on ABC, up 27% from last year (CLE/BOS G4: [...]

Broadcaster Gus Johnson is officially out at CBS, where he spent well over a decade as an NFL and college football play-by-play voice. CBS confirmed to multiple outlets Monday night that they were unable to [...]

The Lakers’ second-to-last game of the season earned the second-largest audience ever for a semifinal round NBA playoff game on ESPN. Friday’s Lakers/Mavericks Game 3 drew a 4.7 U.S. rating and 7.658 million viewers on [...]