Final Nielsen Ratings From Recent Sports Telecasts

The chart below lists final Nielsen ratings from recent sports telecasts ( THE DAILY ). VOTE FOR PEDRO : Wednesday night's Phillies-Cubs game on CSN Philadelphia, which featured P Pedro Martinez' Phillies debut, earned an 11.1 local rating and 330,000 HHs, marking the net's largest audience ever for a Phillies game. The previous record was set on July 21 for another Phillies-Cubs matchup. The record-setting rating bumps up the Phillies' season-long average on CSN Philadelphia to a 6.6 local rating and 196,000 HHs, up 25% over the same time period last year ( CSN Philadelphia )….Wednesday night's Brewers-Padres game on FS Wisconsin earned an 8.3 local rating (75,144 HHs), up 26% from a 5.8 rating (52,510 HHs) for the same matchup the previous night. The Brewers that afternoon sent SS J.J. Hardy to the minors and designated RF Bill Hall for assignment ( MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 8/14 ). NOTES : The August 7 Real Madrid-Toronto FC exhibition match averaged 90,000 viewers on GolTV, which "would be considered a miserable failure for most Canadian channels. But since the game was on a tiny digital channel named GolTV, this was a blockbuster" ( THESTAR.com, 8/11 )….Sports talk radio ratings for the month of July in the Dallas-Ft. Worth market show KTCK-AM remained the No. 1 station, while ESPN Radio 103.3 Dallas ranked second and KRLD-FM ranked third ( DALLASNEWS.com, 8/14 ).

TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME
U.S.
CABLE
VIEWERS (000)
NASCAR Sprint Cup: Sunoco
Red Cross Pennsylvania 500*
8/3
ESPN
12:00-4:30pm
1.6
1.8
2,246
MLB: Cubs-Reds
8/3
ESPN
7:00-9:58pm
1.0
1.2
1,534
MLB: Red Sox-Rays
8/5
ESPN
7:00-10:18pm
0.7
0.8
919
PGA Tour: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Second Round
8/7
Golf
2:00-6:00pm
0.5
0.7
707
NFL Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
8/8
ESPN
7:00-10:58pm
0.6
0.6
770
NASCAR Nationwide Series:
Zippo 200 at The Glen
8/8
ESPN2
3:00-6:00pm
1.3
1.5
1,756
PGA Tour: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Third Round
8/8
Golf
12:00-1:30pm
0.5
0.7
702
MLB: Red Sox-Yankees
8/9
ESPN
8:00-11:23pm
3.0
3.5
4,698
PGA Tour: WGC-Bridgestone Invitational: Final Round
8/9
Golf
12:00-1:30pm
0.7
0.9
926
World Extreme Cagefighting:
Bantamweight Championship: Bowles-Torres**
8/9
VS
9:00-11:29pm
0.4
0.7
670
NOTE: * = Race was rained out on August 2. ** = featured bout.


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