Despite blowout, record-low primetime broadcast overnight, Thursday Night Football still beats ALCS, NBA Opening Week
Baseball and basketball both had strong Thursday nights, but both fell to the power of the NFL.
Ratings News
Last year’s NFL criticism from President Trump seems to have had only a small impact on Sunday Night Football ratings
There was little evidence of Trump's September comments producing a ratings impact, and Trump-favoring markets saw ratings declines at a similar rate to tossup markets.
MLB on ESPN viewership up 2% for 2018 season
It's just a data point, but MLB ratings on ESPN went up in 2018, and that could be very good news for MLB going forward.
TBS’ Yankees-Red Sox broadcast Friday was the most-watched LDS Game 1 since 2010, up 59% over 2017’s Cubs-Nationals
Unsurprisingly, a close game between the Yankees and Red Sox drew an impressive audience.
MLB local ratings up 2 percent overall for 2018 regular season, with Cardinals jumping into first
The Cardinals, Red Sox and Brewers had the best stories with their local ratings this year.
Yankees-A’s AL Wild Card game delivers a ratings win for TBS
The game was a marked improvement over TBS's numbers for last year's NL Wild Card game, which isn't much of a surprise.
Turner lucked into the first Yankees-Red Sox playoff series since 2004; what kind of ratings boost should they expect?
Turner also has a compelling Houston-Cleveland series on the other side of the AL playoffs.
ESPN draws impressive overnights for its two MLB Tiebreaker games
An unprecedented day of two MLB tiebreaking games led to the highest ratings for afternoon regular season games on the Worldwide Leader
Wild Chiefs-Broncos Monday Night Football matchup draws best MNF overnight in over a year
MNF ratings were up, finishing up a strong Week 4 for the NFL.
ABC dominated Week 5 college football primetime ratings, with OSU-PSU best regular season number on ABC/ESPN in a year
Ratings for ABC's Saturday Night Football have been great so far, with Ohio State-Penn State one of their five best rated games ever.
Week 4 Sunday NFL ratings again show a year-over-year rise, except for Fox’s afternoon window
Both CBS windows and the NBC Sunday night game were up double digits year-over-year.
Robert Kraft calls for NFL to “do a better job on our messaging” on ratings…by repeating talking points they already use?
"I think we've got to do a better job on our messaging. General television, broadcast television, ratings are down across the board, but the NFL is still pretty strong."
NASCAR race at Richmond earns a 1.0, the lowest rating since at least 2000 and another sign of the sport’s struggles
The 1.0 here is part of a disturbing trend; more races this year have pulled a 1.5 or less than in the previous 17 seasons combined.
Both NBC and CBS are now claiming to be the “most-watched network”
Somehow they're both right, which is perfect.
While Fox World Cup ratings fell, the English-Spanish ratings gap grew; ad spend data also shows language divides
The English-Spanish adults 18-49 ratings gap grew from 26 percent (in 2010 and 2014) to 40 percent this year.
