Archive for November 12th, 2011

Recent sports TV ratings notes, including Week 10 college football action on CBS (Air Force/Navy) and ESPN (Michigan/Iowa), as well as horse racing’s Breeders’ Cup on ABC.

Two weeks after earning the lowest rating in the five-year history of Saturday Night Football, ABC set another record low last week. Last week’s edition of Saturday Night Football, featuring #14 Kansas State/#3 Oklahoma State, [...]

For the ninth time in thirteen telecasts this season, viewership declined for the NFL on CBS. CBS drew a 9.8 final rating and 16.160 million viewers for the Week 9 NFL singleheader window last Sunday, [...]

FOX drew the second-largest audience of the NFL season during Week 9. The Week 9 NFL national window, featuring Giants/Patriots in 55% of markets, earned a 16.7 final rating and 28.213 million viewers on FOX [...]

ESPN college football analyst Urban Meyer, mentioned as a possible replacement for fired Penn State coach Joe Paterno, will not call Saturday’s Nebraska/Penn State game due to a death in the family. Meyer was taken [...]