CBS posts their best CFB viewership in 29 years, including 13.7 million viewers for SEC championship game
The 13.7 million viewers for Saturday's SEC championship game mean that CBS had both the #1 and #2 CFB games so far this year.
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Oregon’s 37-15 win over Utah was the most-watched Pac-12 Championship since 2014
This Pac-12 championship was up 44 percent over last year's.
What would the College Football Playoff look like if it went by teams’ 2019 viewership?
There are plenty of interesting elements in the regular-season viewership totals for the top 15 teams in the CFP rankings.
Adam Silver calls pay TV system “broken” as NBA struggles with early season ratings
Is the answer more games on network television?
Patriots-Texans averaged 22.0 million viewers for NBC, up 21 percent from 2018 and the highest for a Week 13 SNF game in nine...
This was the best SNF Week 13 rating since 2010's Ravens-Steelers clash.
Ohio State-Michigan matches ratings from last year, Big Noon Kickoff earns biggest audience ever
Big Noon Kickoff also topped ESPN's GameDay in overnight ratings for the first time ever.
Bills-Cowboys is most-watched CBS Thanksgiving Day game in 27 years, most-watched regular-season game on any network in three years
The average of 32.538 million viewers for Bills-Cowboys was the best regular-season rating on any network in three years and the most-watched Thanksgiving Day game on CBS in 27 years.
The final hour of Big Noon Kickoff got close to GameDay’s average audience last week, setting up an interesting battle this week
Big Noon Kickoff averaged 1,979,000 viewers for its 11 a.m ET-noon hour Saturday. College GameDay averaged 2,725,000 viewers for its final hour, but 2,125,000 across its three hours, so Fox's peak is at least getting close to ESPN's average. And few would have predicted that when Big Noon Kickoff launched.
Cowboys-Patriots tied for Fox’s best regular-season NFL broadcast since 1996, was highest-rated broadcast since February’s Oscars
Cowboys-Patriots aired nationally on Fox, with only limited competition in some markets from Jaguars-Titans on CBS. That, plus the strong ratings draws involved and the possible playoff implications, helped lead to a massive 19.5 metered market rating.
MLS Cup on ABC down almost 50 percent from 2018 on Fox and close to 2017 on ESPN, with earlier timing likely a...
The MLS Cup was previously held in December on Saturdays without much sports competition. But moving it up a month meant that it had to shift to Sunday to not conflict with ESPN college football coverage, and that saw it go head-to-head with the NFL.
LSU – Alabama ratings up 47 percent from 2018 for CBS, highest since 2011
LSU - Alabama was the second-most-watched regular-season college football game since 2011.
Nationals-Astros delivered least-watched World Series Game 7 ever, but enough viewers to only be third-least watched World Series
Game 7 drew 23.013 million viewers, the lowest for a World Series Game 7, but still more than enough to make this not the least-watched World Series ever.
If the World Series ends in Game 6, that game will need around 18 million viewers for the series not to be the...
If Game 6 ends the World Series, it may well be the least-watched World Series ever unless the average viewership goes up by over six million from Game 5.
Through five games, the 2019 World Series has produced three of the 10 least-viewed World Series games on record
The 2019 World Series ratings have not been good at all from a historical perspective.
Game 1 of the World Series recorded the lowest average audience in five years and the second-lowest on record
The first game of the World Series was the second-lowest Game 1 on record with 12.194 million average viewers, only slightly ahead of 2014's 12.191 million.
