Sports Ratings Report for Week of June 10-16

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of June 10-16: US Open Golf Edition

Numbers compiled from a variety of sources, including TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, Sports Media Watch, and Son of the Bronx.

Vwr (mil)

HH

18-49

Net

NBA Finals: Heat @ Spurs, Game 5

16.27

6.3

ABC

NBA Finals: Heat @ Spurs, Game 4

16.23

10.0

6.7

ABC

NBA Finals: Heat @ Spurs, Game 3

14.04

5.8

ABC

US Open: Final Round

8.39

5.4

1.9

NBC

Stanley Cup Final:
Bruins @ Blackhawks, Game 1

6.36

3.9

2.5

NBC

US Open: Round 3

5.4

3.7

NBC

NASCAR: Michigan

4.533

2.8

1.2

TNT

Stanley Cup Final:
Bruins @ Blackhawks, Game 2

3.964

2.0

1.5

NBCSN

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This wouldn’t be so bad if the Internet Archive had more of their content from the old site.

Here’s what the proprietors of the Superman through the Ages site apparently decided back in April: “We’re too lazy to perform basic, common-sense steps and research to figure out how to keep our site safe, so we’re going to make it as difficult as possible for us to restore our site by uploading everything manually onto static pages, risking losing all the following we’ve spent nearly two decades building by taking forever to get back the content that was their reason for coming to the site in the first place, if ever! It’s not like the Internet is going to blow up when the new Superman movie comes out in such a way that our collection of classic Superman stories might be a key source of research for certain bloggers looking to weigh in on the controversy!”

Seriously, 99.9% of sites on the Internet, including sites with forums, WordPress, wikis, etc., work just fine with nary a slice of malware or other hackery, but no, you get hit with malware that renders your site mostly offline for over a year before you do anything about it and when you do, you just decide to give up on any and all web technology that wasn’t around when Netscape was big and Geocities reigned (with the possible exception of CSS). I’m sure there are plenty of people who would be willing to pitch in and help you get everything back up faster, but no, that’s just another “security hole” you’re opening up. Never mind the multitude of sites like Wikia or (possibly) WordPress.com that would effectively keep your site safe with their own security upgrades without you having to do anything…

(It also doesn’t help that the only source of updates other than the main page is on Facebook, which I continue to avoid signing up for like the plague, but which I need to sign up for in order to see more than bits and pieces of five comments, which means I can’t see any of what other people have said about the situation or the proprietor’s responses to same…)

Sports Ratings Report for Week of June 3-9

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of June 3-9: Belmont Stakes Edition

Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series finals attracted a substantially larger audience than the MLB game airing on regular ESPN at the time (736k). Does this say more about the matchup (for either game), the fact the WCWS game went into extra innings scoreless, or will ESPN consider switching the two in future years? Or does the WCWS just skew so old that even MLB skews young by comparison?

Numbers compiled from a variety of sources, including TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, Sports Media Watch, and Son of the Bronx.

Vwr (mil)

HH

18-49

Net

NBA Finals: Spurs @ Heat, Game 2

14.57

5.8

ABC

NBA Finals: Spurs @ Heat, Game 1

14.24

5.7

ABC

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Pacers @ Heat, Game 7

11.565

5.1

TNT

Belmont Stakes
(no Triple Crown at stake)

7

4.5

NBC

NASCAR: Party in the Poconos 400

4.358

2.8

1.0

TNT

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Finals:
Kings @ Blackhawks, Game 5

3.813

2.2

NBC

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Finals:
Penguins @ Bruins, Game 4

2.9

1.6

1.1

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Finals:
Penguins @ Bruins, Game 3

2.844

1.6

1.2

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Finals:
Bruins @ Penguins, Game 2

2.601

1.5

1.1

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Finals:
Blackhawks @ Kings, Game 4

2.024

1.2

0.8

NBCSN

French Open, Men’s Final:
Nadal v. Ferrer

2

1.4

NBC

French Open, Women’s Final:
S. Williams v. Sharapova

1.9

1.4

NBC

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Finals:
Blackhawks @ Kings, Game 3

1.813

1.1

0.7

NBCSN

Women’s College World Series:
Oklahoma v. Tennessee, Game 2

1.315

0.9

ESPN

Women’s College World Series:
Tennessee v. Oklahoma, Game 1

1.238

0.8

ESPN2

NASCAR Nationwide Series
(airing against Sprint Cup)

0.417

0.3

ESPN2

MLB First-Year Player Draft

0.277

0.2

MLBN

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Sports Ratings Report for Week of May 27-June 2

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of May 27-June 2: Red Sox/Yankees Edition

Numbers for Fox’s Red Sox-Yankees game estimated based on Sports Media Watch’s description, even though I now have evidence Paulsen’s definition of “just under” is broader than what I’ve been indicating. See the Top 20 table below.

Numbers compiled from a variety of sources, including TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, Sports Media Watch, and Son of the Bronx.

Vwr (mil)

HH

18-49

Net

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Pacers @ Heat, Game 5

8.54

5.4

3.7

TNT

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Heat @ Pacers, Game 6

8.236

3.3

TNT

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Heat @ Pacers, Game 4

8.122

3.5

TNT

NASCAR: FedEx 400

5.973

3.8

FOX

NBA Western Conference Finals:
Spurs @ Grizzlies, Game 4

5.21

3.2

2.1

ESPN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Finals:
Bruins @ Penguins, Game 1

3.376

2.0

NBC

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Red Wings @ Blackhawks, Game 7

3.354

2.1

1.4

NBCSN

Baseball Night in America
(main game: Red Sox @ Yankees)

3.29

2.2

FOX

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Blackhawks @ Red Wings, Game 6

2.723

1.6

1.1

NBCSN

Sunday Night Baseball:
Red Sox @ Yankees

2.335

1.6

0.7

ESPN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Finals:
Kings @ Blackhawks, Game 2

2.019

1.2

0.7

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Finals:
Kings @ Blackhawks, Game 1

1.624

1.0

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Sharks @ Kings, Game 7

1.372

0.8

0.6

NBCSN

Women’s College World Series
(most-watched weekend game)

1.242

0.8

0.3

ESPN

Scripps National Spelling Bee

0.797

0.5

ESPN

NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship

0.734

0.4

ESPN+
ESPNU

WNBA: Sky @ Mercury

0.455

0.3

ESPN2

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Sports Ratings Report for Week of May 20-26

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of May 20-26: Indianapolis 500 Edition

Numbers for the Indy 500 are currently based on fast-national data; I doubt there was much if any change from the fast-national to the final rating, but be ready for the final numbers to be different in a month.

Numbers compiled from a variety of sources, including TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, Sports Media Watch, and Son of the Bronx.

Vwr (mil)

HH

18-49

Net

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Pacers @ Heat, Game 1

8.245

3.6

TNT

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Heat @ Pacers, Game 3

7.279

3.1

TNT

NASCAR: Coca-Cola 600

7.13

1.9

FOX

NBA Eastern Conference Finals:
Pacers @ Heat, Game 2

6.975

3.0

TNT

Indianapolis 500*

5.7

3.7

ABC

NBA Western Conference Finals:
Spurs @ Grizzlies, Game 3

4.941

3.1

1.9

ESPN

NBA Western Conference Finals:
Grizzlies @ Spurs, Game 2

4.62

3.1

1.9

ESPN

NBA Draft Lottery

2.895

1.9

1.2

ESPN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Red Wings @ Blackhawks, Game 5

2.852

1.6

NBC

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Semifinals:
Rangers @ Bruins, Game 5

1.868

1.0

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Blackhawks @ Red Wings, Game 4

1.756

1.1

0.7

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Semifinals:
Bruins @ Rangers, Game 3

1.752

1.1

0.8

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, West Semifinals:
Blackhawks @ Red Wings, Game 3

1.631

1.0

0.7

NBCSN

Formula One: Monaco Grand Prix

1.456

1.0

NBC

UEFA Champions League Final:
Bayern Munich v. Borussia Dortmund

1.4

0.9

FOX

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Semifinals:
Bruins @ Rangers, Game 4

1.365

0.7

0.6

CNBC

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Semifinals:
Senators @ Penguins, Game 5

1.307

0.7

0.5

NBCSN

Stanley Cup Playoffs, East Semifinals:
Penguins @ Senators, Game 4

1.228

0.7

0.5

NBCSN

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