Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Events

The following lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports events ( THE DAILY ). MLB NOTES : Wednesday night's Royals-White Sox game on Comcast SportsNet (CSN) Chicago earned a 3.03 HH rating (105,000 HHs), making it the net's highest White Sox rating since Indians-White Sox earned a 3.08 HH rating in September '06 ( CSN Chicago )….From March 31 through May 22, FSN Arizona was the top-rated net in the Phoenix DMA on nights that it aired a D'Backs game, outdistancing all four broadcast stations in the market from 7:00-11:00pm PT. During the period, the net generated an average primetime HH rating of 5.01 on nights it had D'Backs games ( FSN Arizona )….CSN Philadelphia's broadcast of the Reds-Phillies game on Wednesday night, in which P Brett Myers took a no-hitter into the 7th inning, earned an 8.3 HH rating with 247,000 HHs, making the highest-rated Phillies game on the net since Braves-Phillies in September '07 ( CSN Philadelphia )….Through Tuesday, Marlins games on FSN Florida and Sun Sports were averaging a 3.4 HH rating, up 6% from '07 and marking the team's highest figure at this point of the season since '05 ( MIAMI HERALD, 6/6 )….YES Network earned a 5.6 HH rating for Blue Jays-Yankees on Tuesday, which marked P Joba Chamberlain's debut start. From 8:00-8:15pm ET, 7.5% of area homes were watching the Yankees game. Meanwhile, SNY's coverage of Mets-Giants, which featured P Pedro Martinez' return from the DL, earned a 3.3 HH rating ( NEWSDAY.com, 6/4 ).