A quickie post on the ratings for some of the events over the weekend. These are overnight ratings numbers. We expect final ratings later.
First for the Nebraska-Penn State game on ESPN, the game received the network’s highest overnight rating for the noon ET Saturday slot for college football since 2001. With the curiosity over how the game would be handled in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child molestation story, only natural for the network to receive a high rating. Mike McCarthy of USA Today has that news and a link to a story in his tweet.
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That game was up 120% from last year’s Week 11 college football contest.
As for the Saturday Night Football game on ABC, that received very good ratings. Oregon-Stanford got a 5.9 overnight rating according to Mike Humes of ESPN public relations.
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That beat out UFC on Fox’s overnight rating of 3.1. Final numbers on Saturday primetime should be out later today or early tomorrow.
And for the Carrier Classic, the college basketball game between Michigan State and North Carolina played on the USS Carl Vinson, the first-ever regular season contest played on a Navy aircraft carrier, that received respectable numbers for ESPN on Friday. This tweet is from Austin Karp of Sports Business Journal/Sports Business Daily.
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Overall, sports did quite well on TV during the Veterans Day weekend. More stuff on the way.
