MLB Playoff TV ratings

Dodgers-Cubs NLCS-clinching Game 6 draws record FS1 viewership, but series down 11% from 4 game Mets-Cubs 2015 NLCS

October 23, 2016
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Game 6 of the 2016 Los Angeles Dodgers vs Chicago Cubs NLCS averaged 9.706 million viewers on FS1.  That easily surpassed the previous record for FS1 (Game 2 of the series, which averaged 7.291 million). The game peaked with 12.213 million viewers from 10:30-10:45 PM ET. While the 9.7 million for game 6 was the most for any LCS game on any network since 2010, it wasn’t enough to boost…

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Dodgers-Cubs NLCS Game 6 is another ratings record for FS1, easily bests Ohio State-Penn State

October 23, 2016
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Per Fox Sports EVP of research Michael Mulvihill, the Chicago Cubs win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in game 6 of the NLCS to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1945 earned a 6.3 overnight rating on FS1 (on average 6.3 percent of the households in the largest 56 markets were tuned-in.) That easily eclipses the previous record of a 5.3 overnight rating set for game 5….

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Cubs-Dodgers, Bears-Packers, Miami-Virginia Tech top cable sports TV ratings for Thursday October 20, 2016

October 21, 2016
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  Note: the Chicago Bears vs Green Bay Packers game averaged 14.202 million viewers across CBS and NFL Network. The 3.036 million in the table below is just the NFL Network portion. Cable Sports TV Ratings for Thursday October 20, 2016: (includes top-10 for all cable shows + most-watched Gunsmoke rerun on TV Land) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. –…

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Cubs-Dodgers NLCS Game 5 another ratings record for FS1; nearly doubles Bears game in Chicago

October 21, 2016
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Per Sports Business Journal’s Austin Karp, game five of the Chicago Cubs versus Los Angeles Dodgers NLCS drew a 5.3 overnight rating (on average, 5.3% of the homes in the largest 56 markets were tuned-in.) That eclipses the previous record of a 5.0 overnight rating set less than a week ago for game two of the Dodgers-Cubs series. Karp also notes that locally in the Chicago market, the Cubs drew a…

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Cubs-Dodgers, Indians-Blue Jays, Warriors Preseason game top cable sports TV ratings for Wednesday October 19, 2016

October 20, 2016
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  Cable Sports TV Ratings for Wednesday October 19, 2016: (includes top-10 for all cable shows + most-watched Gunsmoke rerun on TV Land) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are still easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. – All data ©Nielsen (data provided by a variety of TV network sources and not directly from Nielsen) Note: viewership of around 100,000 or lower is technically…

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Cubs-Dodgers, Indians-Blue Jays, WWE Smackdown top cable sports-ish TV ratings for Tuesday October 18, 2016

October 20, 2016
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  Please follow @SportsTVRatings on Twitter because I post additional numbers there.  Cable Sports TV Ratings for Tuesday October 18, 2016: (includes top-10 for all cable shows plus the most-watched ‘Gunsmoke’ on TV Land) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are still easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. – All data ©Nielsen (data provided by a variety of TV network sources and not directly from Nielsen) Note:…

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Dodgers-Cubs Game 3 draws 6.5 million, Indians-Blue Jays Game draws 2.7 million

October 19, 2016
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The Los Angeles Dodgers win over the Chicago Cubs to take a two games to one lead in the NLCS averaged 6.494 million viewers on FS1. That’s FS1’s 2nd-best viewership ever trailing only Sunday’s Game 2 of the series that averaged 7.291 million. Meanwhile the Toronto Blue Jays win over the Cleveland Indians to force a fifth game of the ALCS averaged 2.738 million on TBS (U.S. viewership only, doesn’t…

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Blue Jays-Indians, Duke-Louisville top cable sports TV ratings for Friday October 14, 2016

October 17, 2016
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  Cable Sports TV Ratings for Friday October 14, 2016: (includes top-10 for all cable shows + most-watched Gunsmoke rerun on TV Land) Note to readers using mobile phones: the tables are still easier to read/scroll through if you tilt your phone to landscape orientation. – All data ©Nielsen (data provided by a variety of TV network sources and not directly from Nielsen) Note: viewership of around 100,000 or lower is technically…

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