- Sunday’s Yankees/Mets game on ESPN drew a 2.1 U.S. rating and 3.2 million viewers, down 3% in viewership from the first Sunday night meeting between the teams last year (3.3 mil; 6/28/09). (pifeedback.com)
- Entering the Stanley Cup Final, Versus is averaging 833,000 viewers for coverage of the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs, up 15% from last year (721,000). Friday’s Sharks/Blackhawks Game 3, the most recent game on the network, drew 1.6 million viewers. (Puck The Media, Sharkspage)
- In the battle of Top 10 television markets, Chicago trounced San Jose on the ice and in the ratings. In the Bay Area, the Blackhawks/Sharks series drew ratings of 5.6 (Game 1), 4.2 (Game 2), 4.0 (Game 3) and 4.4 (Game 4) — well below the numbers for those same games in the Chicago market (11.2 for Game 1, 10.9 for Game 2, 11.5 for Game 3 and 14.1 for Game 4). (Sharkspage)
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