Lebron and the Cleveland Cavaliers loss to the Washington Wizards on ESPN was Friday’s top cable sports programming with 1.87 million viewers. With numerous networks and telecasts I’m playing around with the sort format. This is sorted from most-watched to least-watched. Using your browser’s search tool (usually CTRL/CMD+F) might be the faster if you’re looking for something specific. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Friday November 21, 2014:
ESPN (as usual) dominates sports networks for week ending November 23, 2014
If it seems like these rankers never change from a relative ranking perspective that’s because they usually don’t. NFL Network will fade once it has no more games to air, but that’s still a few weeks into the future. Primetime for the week ending November 23: Net Viewers (000) Viewers 18-49 (000) ESPN 3,538 1,633 NFLN 1,137 498 ESP2 465 158 FS1 351 157 ESNU 223 86 NBAT 160 67 NBCS…
CBS national game scores better overnight rating than close Cowboys-Giants.
The CBS late afternoon national game (Dolphins/Broncos or 49ers/Redskins) scored a 17.4 household rating with a 31 share for the window — its second-best performance for the national game on CBS trailing November 2nd’s 18.6/32 (Broncos/Patriots). Meanwhile the overnight household rating for the Dallas Cowboys vs. NY Giants rating was a 14.0 with a 22 percent share.
Cable Sports TV Ratings for Thursday November 20, 2014
The Raiders tried their best to lose to the Chiefs, but their win still easily led the cable sports nets on Thursday. I haven’t seen the deep dive yet, if I do, I’ll replace the table below with it. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Thursday November 20, 2014:
Cable Sports TV Ratings for Wednesday November 19, 2014
NBA action on ESPN led the cable sports nets on Wednesday night, with the Spurs vs. Cavs matchup averaging 2.65 million viewers. This is sorted from most-watched to least-watched. Using your browser’s search tool (usually CTRL/CMD+F) might be the faster way to go if you’re looking for something specific. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Wednesday November 19, 2014:
ESPN2’s sports talk shows for the week of November 10-16, 2014
First Take took 4 of the top 5 spots with Sunday’s Fantasy Show taking the other. First Take has plenty of haters, but…if numbers never lie (as opposed to His & Hers which was formerly Numbers Never Lie and still listed as such in the table below)…
NFL local market rankings for the week of November 10-16, 2014
Milwaukee again ranked #1 among local market ratings for the week ending November 16, 2014 for the Eagles vs. Packers game. Just because Milwaukee is #1 in the list below and New York is dead last, don’t take that to mean more people watched the Eagles/Packers game in Milwaukee than watched the 49ers/Giants game in NY. That isn’t the case.
Cable Sports TV Ratings for Tuesday November 18, 2014
Technically, the 19 minute pregame for Kansas vs. Kentucky led all the cable sports networks on Tuesday, but the two-hour and ten minute Kansas vs. Kentucky blowout led “real” sports followed by Michigan St vs. Duke. Table is sorted from most-viewed to least-viewed today and it looks like the data received today didn’t include anything that “scratched” (too few Nielsen panelists for Nielsen to validate the numbers). Below the first table…