NASCAR Xfinity Series, Wimbledon, USA-Haiti Gold Cup , PTI lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday July 10, 2015

July 13, 2015

NASCAR Xfinity Series racing at Kentucky topped Friday cable sports viewership with 1.094 million viewers and a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating on NBCSN. Six hours of coverage of the Men’s Wimbledon Semifinal on ESPN averaged 1.057 million viewers and a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. The USA men’s group stage match win over Haiti in the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Fox Sports 1 averaged 1.035 million viewers and a 0.4 adults…

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PGA Tour Greenbrier, Wimbledon, Mets-Dodgers, PTI lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday July 3, 2015

July 7, 2015

Tiger was smiling and a little over three hours of PGA Tour coverage of the Greenbrier Classic on Golf channel led cable sports on a Friday that was the start of a long three-day weekend with 1.032 million viewers and a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. Coverage from Wimbledon on ESPN did nearly as well in viewers with 1.013 million and better with adults under 50 with a 0.3 adults 18-49…

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Pardon the Interruption, Bellator MMA lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday June 26, 2015

June 29, 2015

ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption led cable a very slow day of sports programming on Friday with 897,000 viewers and a 0.4 adults 18-49 rating. Bellator MMA coverage on Spike from 9p-11:12p ET averaged 764,000 viewers and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Friday June 26, 2015: 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…

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U.S. Open Golf, Bellator MMA 138, TCU-Vanderbilt lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday June 19, 2015

June 22, 2015

Eight hours of second-round coverage of the U.S. Open Golf Championship on Fox Sports 1 led all cable sports programming viewership on Friday with an average of 1.612 million viewers and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating. The primetime coverage on the Fox broadcast network averaged 2.889 million viewers and a 0.6 adults 18-49 rating. Fueled by the Kimbo Slice-Ken Shamrock fight Bellator MMA 138 on Spike averaged 1.58 million and…

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Pardon the Interruption, Women’s World Cup lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday June 12, 2015

June 15, 2015

Consecutive Fridays with Bob Ryan subbing for Tony Kornheiser on ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption and consecutive Fridays with PTI leading the cable sports networks on a slow Friday, this time with 738,000 viewers and 0.3 adults 18-49 rating. In FIFA Women’s World Cup action on Fox Sports 1, Australia-Nigeria averaged 631,000 viewers, Japan-Cameroon averaged 615,000 viewers and Switzerland-Ecuador averaged 587,000 viewers. All three game had a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating. More…

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Pardon the Interruption, PGA Memorial, USA-Netherlands lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday June 5, 2015

June 8, 2015

Even with a day off for Tony Kornheiser, ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption averaged  998,000 viewers and a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating to lead the cable sports landscape for Friday. Coverage of PGA’s Memorial Tournament on the Golf channel averaged 740,000 viewers for 4+ hours of coverage.   The USA Men’s National Soccer Team’s dramatic comeback versus the Netherlands to win 4-3 averaged 680,000 viewers and a 0.3 adults 18-49 rating…

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Lightning-Rangers, College Softball, PBC Boxing lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday May 29, 2015

June 1, 2015

Game 7 of the NHL Eastern Conference Finals where the Tampa Bay Lightning won out over the New York Rangers to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals averaged 3.287 million viewers and a 1.2 adults 18-49 rating on NBCSN to top Friday’s cable sports landscape. In the College Softball World Series on ESPN, Michigan vs UCLA averaged 989,000 viewers with a 9:39p start and Florida vs LSU averaged 807,000 with a…

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Cavs-Hawks, Rangers-Lightning lead Cable Sports TV ratings for Friday May 22, 2015

Game 2 of the NBA Eastern Conference Finals between the Cleveland Cavaliers and Atlanta Hawks on TNT led all cable sports on Friday with 5.935 million viewers and a 2.3 adults 18-49 rating. Game 4 of the NHL Eastern Conference Finals between the New York Rangers and Tampa Bay Lightning on NBCSN averaged 1.536 million viewers and a 0.6 adults 18-49 rating. ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption averaged 956,000 viewers and…

May 26, 2015
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