- Last week’s edition of ESPN Sports Saturday, featuring Homecoming with Rick Reilly and Winners Bracket, drew a mere 0.3 final rating on ABC — down 63% from a 0.8 for the show’s debut a week earlier. (Sports Business Daily)
- Final round coverage of The Masters drew a 21.2/37 rating in the Ft. Myers/Naples market, the highest rating among the top 65 television markets. Making up the rest of the top five were West Palm Beach (17.7/30), Greenville, SC (15.7/28), Charlotte (15.0/31) and Raleigh-Durham (14.8/28). (pifeedback.com)
- ESPN drew a 1.4 U.S. rating and 2.1 million viewers for Cardinals/Brewers on Sunday Night Baseball last week, down 26% and 28%, respectively, from Cubs/Brewers last year (1.9, 3.0 mil). The game ranked as the 26th most-viewed cable program of the night. (Sports Business Daily, pifeedback.com)
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