Awful Announcing
Fox's prime time U.S. Open coverage (7:30-10:30 p.m. Eastern) Thursday drew an average of 3.465 million viewers across Fox and FS1.
The overnights are down 20 percent compared to last year’s Finals.
The Western Conference Finals didn't look great from a market standpoint, but wound up being a ratings win for ESPN even with only four games.
The IndyCar Grand Prix Saturday drew 1.07 million viewers on average for NBC, a 37 percent jump over last year's race on ABC.
Last year's Golden State-Houston and Boston-Cleveland matchups paid big dividends for ESPN and TNT, but this year's Milwaukee-Toronto and Golden State-Portland matchups look weaker for U.S. TV.
ESPN won the night, but ABC picked up more viewers than Fox did last year.
While the Game of Thrones premiere didn't pass big NFL games or many Winter Olympics nights, it did come awfully close to MLB and NBA final-game ratings in 2018, and beat the Kentucky Derby, the Masters and more.
ESPN PR put out a release that Michael Kay's show "beats" Mike Francesa's. But that's only if you count ESPN's streaming and discount WFAN's.
With the constant worrying over the long decline of NASCAR ratings on American television over the last several...
The NCAA Tournament ratings have been up so far, but how much of that is from fans only interested in Zion Williamson and Duke? We'll find out in the Final Four.
Francesa's old partner, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, will be appearing on ESPN New York instead of WFAN in the final day of the ratings book battle.
Sunday's third-game window, featuring Duke's narrow win over UCF, drew an 11.9/24 household rating/share.
The lower number continues the trend of lower ratings for the NBA this season
The Virginia-Duke audience peaked at 4,980,000 viewers for the final minutes, a nice lead-in to the UFC Fight Night prelims.
Two overtime games give CBS and Fox ratings wins on Sunday.
