The College Football Playoff Selection Show suffered a big decline in overnight ratings. In other news, ESPN tied its highest ever overnight for regular season women’s college basketball, and FOX and CBS went in opposite directions for their college basketball debuts.
Big Drop For CFP Selection Show
- The full four-hour College Football Playoff Selection Show earned a 0.9 overnight rating on ESPN, down 44% from a 1.6 for last year’s three-hour show. Overnights were not available for the half-hour in which the rankings were released. (via Sports Business Daily)
ESPN Ties Record-High Overnight For Women’s CBB
- ESPN scored a 1.5 overnight rating for the Notre Dame/Connecticut women’s college basketball game Saturday afternoon, up 200% from the same matchup last year (0.5) and tied as the highest ever for a regular season women’s game on the ESPN family of networks. It matched Notre Dame/Stanford in December 2010, which marked the end of the Huskies’ 90-game winning streak. Saturday’s game, which aired opposite the highest rated college football telecast of the season, topped the preceding Arizona/Gonzaga men’s basketball game by 25% (1.5 to 1.2). (ESPN Media Zone, SBD)
FOX Up, CBS Down, For College Hoops Debuts
- The Syracuse/Georgetown men’s college basketball game drew a 0.6 overnight rating on FOX Saturday afternoon, doubling last year’s comparable Northwestern/Butler matchup (0.3). Over on CBS, Temple/Wisconsin also had a 0.6 — down 25% from Wisconsin/Marquette last year (0.8) and down a third from UCLA/Missouri in 2013 (0.9). (via SBD)
