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)
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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. |