Our first press release sent to us by SNY, the cable home of the New York Mets, tells us that Thursday’s home opener against the Atlanta Braves set a ratings record. According to SNY, the game had a 3.95 household rating averaging 321,000 viewers in the New York market.
In addition, the ratings were the highest for a Mets daytime home opener on a regional sports network. Previously, the Mets have been on SportsChannel, Fox Sports Net and MSG Network. The old record was a 3.9 recorded back in 2002.
We have the press release from SNY.
SNY Establishes New Ratings Record for the New York Mets
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Mets-Braves Game Delivers the Highest Rated Daytime Home Opener Ever for the New York Mets
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2012 Home Opener Garners More Than 300,000 Total Viewers
[New York, April 6, 2012] On the heels of the New York Mets setting an attendance record at Citi Field for yesterday’s Mets-Braves home opener – SNY – the official television home of the New York Mets, announced it also established a new ratings benchmark for yesterday’s 1:00pm Mets-Braves home opener by garnering a 3.95 household rating (292,000 TV households) and averaged 321, 000 Total Viewers. Yesterday’s Mets-Braves telecast also peaked at a 4.61 household rating (341,000 TV households).
The 3.95 household rating represents the highest-rated – most-watched – weekday (daytime) home opener ever for the New York Mets on a Regional Sports Network (RSN). This eclipses the previous ratings record for a daytime home opener, which took place on April 1, 2002 when the Mets-Pirates game recorded a 3.9 household rating (284,000 TV households).
In addition, the household rating is +21% higher than the 2011 Mets-Marlins season opener on April 1, 2011 at 7:00pm (3.95 household rating vs. 3.27 household rating) and +138% higher than the 2011 Mets-Nationals home opener on April 8, 2011 (3.95 household rating vs. 1.66 household rating).
SNY’s next Mets telecast is Saturday, April 7th at 1:00pm. Ron Darling, Keith Hernandez, Gary Cohen and Kevin Burkhardt – widely recognized as the best broadcast team in all of baseball – will cover the action. Prior to the Mets-Braves game, SNY’s Mets Pre Game Live show will kick off the action at 12:30pm with lead studio analyst Bob Ojeda and host Chris Carlin. Immediately Following the Mets-Braves tilt, fans can tune to Mets Post Game Live on SNY.
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Live+SD Data
Thanks to SNY for sending the press release.
