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 ).