Sunday Night Baseball ratings fell for a fourth straight week to start the season. Also: ratings were mixed for the PGA Tour Heritage tournament, and Premier Boxing Champions scored an uptick from last April.
Sunday Night Baseball down for fourth straight week
Braves-Indians scored a 0.7 rating and 1.09 million viewers on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball last weekend, down a tick in ratings and 14% in viewership from last year (Nationals-Dodgers: 0.8, 1.28M) and down 22% and 20% respectively from 2017 (Nationals-Mets: 0.9, 1.37M).
All four Sunday Night Baseball games this season have declined to multi-year lows.
The following night, ESPN drew a 0.33 (-27%) and 476,000 (-28%) for Phillies-Mets. The same matchup scored a 0.29 and 421,000 (+0.2%) on Wednesday night.
Shifting to FS1, Dodgers-Brewers drew a 0.32 and 514,000 last Saturday night. Giants-Pirates had 296,000 earlier in the day.
PGA Tour Heritage ratings mixed last weekend
Last Sunday’s final round of the PGA Tour Heritage Tournament earned a 1.6 rating and 2.60 million viewers on CBS, down 16% in ratings and 12% in viewership from last year (1.9, 2.94M), but up 14% in both measures from 2017 (1.4, 2.27M).
The declines marked a reversal from the previous day, when third round coverage posted a 1.4 (+8%) and 2.03 million (+7%). Lead-in coverage on Golf Channel had a 0.46 (+10%) and 691,000 (+7%) on Saturday and a 0.53 (-10%) and 803,000 (-11%) on Sunday.
PBC on FOX up from last April
The latest edition of Premier Boxing Champions on FOX had a 0.7 rating and 1.08 million viewers last Saturday night, up a tick in ratings and 30% in viewership from last April (0.6, 839K). It was the lowest rated and least-watched PBC on FOX card since last August (0.6, 941K), a span of five telecasts.
[Numbers from Nielsen via ShowBuzz Daily 4.23]
