0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/12/2014
Whether it was Ray Rice or people are just starved for football, another network TV primetime NFL package scored in the ratings. The Pittsburgh-Baltimore game to kick off the new combined CBS/NFL Network Thursday Night Football series gave the networks a 13.7 overnight rating with a 23 share. That’s up a whopping 108% from last […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 9/9/2014
The ESPN opening week Monday Night Football doubleheader did well for the network. The New York Giants at Detroit and San Diego at Arizona were the top two programs in primetime across cable and beat all broadcast offerings. The first game, Giants-Lions secured an 8.4 rating with 13.7 million viewers. New York received a combined […]
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Even though the NFL isn’t having the best of weeks, it can crow a little bit about the ratings for the NFL Kickoff game last Thursday between the Green Bay Packers and defending Super Bowl champs Seattle Seahawks as well as the Sunday Night Football season premiere which pitted the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/19/2014
Monday night’s Cleveland at Washington NFL preseason game gave ESPN its highest ratings and biggest audience in five years. ESPN’s Monday Night Football garnered a 4.5 rating and an average 6.898 million viewers. It’s the highest-rated and biggest audience since a 2009 Houston Texans-Minnesota Vikings preseason game (5.2 rating and 7.918 million viewers). ESPN won […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/11/2014
Thanks to a rain delay that pushed the final round of the PGA Championship into primetime in the Eastern and Central time zones, CBS saw its best rating for the event in five years. As Rory McIlroy charged from behind to win the Wannamaker Trophy over Phil Mickelson, Rickie Fowler and Henrik Stenson, the Tiffany […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 8/4/2014
People keep picking on preseason football and say they won’t watch, but it keeps winning primetime. The Hall of Fame Game on NBC on Sunday between the Buffalo Bills and New York Football Giants pulled a 5.8/10 overnight rating. NBC Sports Public Relations tweeted the numbers this morning. Austin Karp at Sports Business Daily/Sports Business […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/16/2014
As much as we pick on the MLB All-Star Game for what’s wrong, we may finally be seeing something right about the exhibition game that counts for something (we can debate that until the cows come home). For the second straight year, the All-Star Game saw its viewership increase. In 2014, Fox garnered an average […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/15/2014
As Univision ends its long association with the World Cup dating back to 1972, it goes out on top with its most-viewed Final in the network’s history. The Final between Germany and Argentina drew 9.2 million total viewers and an impressive five million in the key 18-49 age demographic. For Univision, the entire month of […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/14/2014
I never would have thought in a million years that the World Cup would see huge numbers, however, throw the baby out with the bath water this year. ESPN did a tremendous job in marketing the World Cup. The U.S. men’s national team became a huge story and for one month, the networks of ESPN […]
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ESPN has announced that Sunday’s Germany-Argentina World Cup Final which aired on ABC, received a 9.7 overnight rating. It’s the third-highest overnight rating for a World Cup match behind the 1994 Final between Brazil and Italy (12.8) and the 1994 Round of 16 match between the USA and Brazil (10.4). Yesterday’s match was 13% better […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/10/2014
Well, the World Cup viewing records continue to fall for ESPN. A day after setting a record for the Brazil-Germany 7-1 blowout, ESPN set another standard for Wednesday’s Netherlands-Argentina game. On Tuesday, Brazil-Germany received a 4.2 rating and 6.643 million viewers. The Netherlands-Argentina match garnered a 4.3 rating and 6.823 million viewers. These numbers will […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/5/2014
ESPN is certainly happy that there’s still interest in the World Cup despite the United States being eliminated earlier this week. Brazil vs. Colombia is now the most-watched World Cup quarterfinal on the networks of ESPN garnering a 3.6 fast national rating and just under 6.35 million viewers. So to the detractors of soccer and […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 7/2/2014
Univision/Univision Deportes saw a combined 5.1 million viewers for USA-Belgium. We noted earlier that ESPN garnered an audience of 16.5 million for the game so overall, the game had a combined audience of 21.6 million viewers. Online, Univision saw 1.8 million unique viewers so with the combined online and TV audience, the game had just […]
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The numbers are in. The USA-Belgium game on ESPN registered 16.5 million viewers becoming the 2nd most-watched men’s soccer game in U.S. television history. It falls below the USA-Portugal game on June 22. ESPN averaged a 9.8 rating for the game, better than the 9.6 rating for USA-Portugal. To be exact, the game averaged 16.491 […]
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The game may have resulted in a loss, but the overnight rating for USA-Belgium was a big win for ESPN. It ended as the highest overnight rating ever for a World Cup game on ESPN networks. Overall, the game averaged a 9.6 rating and peaking at an amazing 14.1 in the 5:45-6 p.m. ET quarter-hour. […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/30/2014
Mexico was doing so well late in its game with the Netherlands when everything came crashing down in the 89th minute with a tying goal, then a controversial penalty kick to win the game for the Dutch and eliminate the Mexicans for the 6th straight time in the Round of 16. Univision saw a record […]
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Sunday was a good day for ESPN as it aired two World Cup Round of 16 games. Netherlands vs. Mexico becomes the highest-rated non-U.S. game in any round with a very respectable 4.0 rating and 6.571 million viewers. For Costa Rica vs. Greece which ended in a penalty kick shootout, it sustained a 3.9 rating […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/29/2014
In its last year of airing the FIFA World Cup until at least 2025, Univision is seeing larger numbers from the last World Cup in 2010. Univision says its ratings have increased by 43% in total viewers and by 31% in the coveted 18-49 demographic. Its USA-Germany viewership was 3.4 million and combined with ESPN’s […]
0 comments by Ken Fang on 6/27/2014
Soccer continues to score for ESPN. The USA-Germany game on the Mothership scored a 6.7 rating, better than the 6.3 for USA-Ghana on Sunday. Viewership on ESPN was 10,771,000 and on WatchESPN, the online service had 3.2 million unique viewers. That is pretty amazing when you get down to the numbers. At its highest peak, […]
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ESPN has scored once again for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. The USA-Germany game played at noon ET received a 6.3 overnight rating, the third highest for a men’s World Cup match on ESPN. In the last quarter-hour, ESPN saw the rating peak at a 9.5. WatchESPN which had troubles yesterday in handling the traffic […]
