- The July 7 Mets/Reds game on ESPN, which received a fairly decent amount of promotion on SportsCenter due to the announcing team of Chris Berman, Joe Morgan and Bobby Valentine, drew just a 0.5 U.S. rating and 671,000 viewers. To put that in perspective, a taped Harlem Globetrotters game on ESPN several days later drew a 0.6 and 851,000 viewers. (Sports Business Daily)
- Sunday’s Cubs/Dodgers Sunday Night Baseball game — the last MLB game before the All-Star break — drew a 1.1 U.S. rating and 1.597 million viewers on ESPN, down 39% in ratings and 43% in viewership from Cardinals/Cubs on the comparable date last year (1.8, 2.797 mil) and down 27% and 24%, respectively, from Rockies/Mets in 2008 (1.5, 2.099 mil). (Sports Business Daily)
- Last Sunday’s Formula 1 Santander British Grand Prix drew a 0.6 final rating and 959,000 viewers on FOX, down 14% in ratings and viewership from the June 27 Grand Prix of Europe and the network’s lowest rated F1 race of the season. (Sports Business Daily)
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