This from CBS/Turner, overnight ratings for Thursday’s NCAA Tournament Regional Semifinal games are up 4% from 2012. The games on CBS and TBS averaged a 7.3 and a 14 share, up from last year’s 7.0/12. Ratings were up despite the fact that three of four of the games were blowouts.
Overall, the ratings for the NCAA Tournament are up 5% from last year’s Big Dance averaging a 6.4/14.
Here’s the press release from CBS/Turner.
CBS Sports and Turner Sports’ Exclusive Coverage of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Regional Semifinals Up 4% vs. 2012
2013 NCAA Tournament to Date Ratings Up 5% vs. Last Year
Turner Sports and CBS Sports’ exclusive coverage of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship Regional Semifinals on Thursday, March 28, averaged a 7.3/14, based on Nielsen overnight ratings, an increase of 4% over a 7.0/12 last year. Ratings improved despite three of the four games being decided by 10 points or more.
Exclusive coverage of the 2013 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship across the four networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – is averaging a gross rating/share of 6.4/14, based on Nielsen overnight ratings, up 5% compared with a 6.1/13 tournament to date in 2012.
Regional Semifinal coverage continues tonight, March 29, with the following slate of games:
Regional Semifinals – Friday, March 29
(7 p.m.-Midnight ET)Tip (ET)
Network
Site
Game
Play-by-Play/Analyst//Reporter
7:15 p.m. CBS Indianapolis I Oregon vs. Louisville Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg//Tracy Wolfson 7:37 p.m. TBS North Texas I Kansas vs. Michigan Marv Albert/Steve Kerr//Craig Sager After conc. I CBS Indianapolis II Michigan State vs. Duke Jim Nantz/Clark Kellogg//Tracy Wolfson After conc. I TBS North Texas II Florida Gulf Coast vs. Florida Marv Albert/Steve Kerr//Craig Sager
There you have it.
