- Wednesday’s Florida St./Duke game drew a 0.9 U.S. rating and 1.5 million viewers on ESPN. There was no college basketball game in the comparable timeslot last year. Earlier in the night, Villanova/Notre Dame drew a 0.6 U.S. rating and 932,000 viewers, down 65% and 63%, respectively, from last year’s comparable Duke/Wake Forest game. (pifeedback.com)
- ESPN2 drew a 0.9 U.S. rating and 1.3 million viewers for coverage of the Australian Open Wednesday night (9:30 PM ET through 1:30 AM). (pifeedback.com)
- Entering Thursday’s doubleheader, TNT is averaging a 1.2 U.S. rating and 1.8 million viewers for NBA coverage, up 9% and 8%, respectively, from last year (1.1, 1.6 mil). (TV By the Numbers)
YouTube balks at splitting NFL package with Netflix, broadcast TV back in mix, per Ourand
The twists and turns continue over the NFL's five-game media rights package. Just hours after Alex Sherman of CNBC...
