Archive for October 3rd, 2011

Overnight ratings dropped double-digits for the Week 4 edition of NBC’s Sunday Night Football. Sunday’s Week 4 Jets/Ravens game earned a 12.7 overnight rating on NBC, down 11% from last year (CHI/NYG: 14.2), but up [...]

The now-relevant Lions helped give FOX its highest NFL singleheader overnight rating in twelve years. The Week 4 NFL singleheader, featuring Lions/Cowboys in 35% of markets, earned a 14.9 overnight rating on FOX Sunday afternoon [...]

Considering the extenuating circumstances, Saturday’s Rays/Rangers Game 2 performed fairly well for TNT. Game 2 between the Rays and Rangers earned a 1.4 U.S. rating and 2.165 million viewers on TNT Saturday night. Rays/Rangers was [...]

Saturday’s Cardinals/Phillies Game 1 completed an ignominious clean sweep, as all four playoff openers were down from last year.. Game 1 between the Cardinals and Phillies earned a 2.4 U.S. rating and 3.752 million viewers [...]

Singer Hank Williams Jr. will serve a one-game suspension of sorts after likening the President of the United States to Adolf Hitler. Appearing on a cable news show Monday morning, Williams Jr. likened a golf [...]

Ratings and viewership dipped for the opener of the Diamondbacks/Brewers National League Division Series. Game 1 between the Diamondbacks and Brewers drew a 1.6 final rating and 2.436 million viewers on TBS Saturday afternoon, down [...]

Washington Post writer Thomas Boswell in November of 1998: The popular analogy is to compare the NBA’s lockout, now in its 128th day, to the baseball strike of 1994. This is not only the wrong [...]

Though comparisons to last year come with several important caveats, Saturday’s resumption of Tigers/Yankees Game 1 was down double-digits in ratings and viewership. The final seven innings of the Yankees’ Game 1 win over the [...]