Awful Announcing
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.
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.
Unsurprisingly, a close game between the Yankees and Red Sox drew an impressive audience.
The Cardinals, Red Sox and Brewers had the best stories with their local ratings this year.
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 also has a compelling Houston-Cleveland series on the other side of the AL playoffs.
An unprecedented day of two MLB tiebreaking games led to the highest ratings for afternoon regular season games on the Worldwide Leader
MNF ratings were up, finishing up a strong Week 4 for the NFL.
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.
Both CBS windows and the NBC Sunday night game were up double digits year-over-year.
"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."
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.
Somehow they're both right, which is perfect.
The English-Spanish adults 18-49 ratings gap grew from 26 percent (in 2010 and 2014) to 40 percent this year.
Having no participants from the Yankees may have hurt this year's Home Run Derby ratings.
