The Studio Show Scorecard for Week of October 21-27

PT Rnk

TD Rnk

Oct Distr.
(000)
PT Vwr
(000)
LW/LY TD Vwr
(000)
TD HH TD Vwr
LW/LY

1

=

1

=

98891

3055

+14%

1295

0.9

+6%

=

=

85%

3055

+14%

1295

+6%

+9%

3

=

2

=

98861

731

+15%

309

0.2

+4%

=

=

85%

731

+10%

309

+3%

+4%

2

=

3

=

72464

762

-17%

238

0.2

-13%

=

=

63%

1040

-6%

325

-12%

-6%

4

=

4

=

90121

177

-34%

111

0.1

-23%

=

=

78%

194

+33%

121

-20%

+3%

5

=

5

=

79145

154

-25%

83

0.0

+5%

+1

+3

68%

192

+40%

104

+22%

+85%

7

+2

6

+3

75603

98

+44%

81

0.0

+60%

n/a

n/a

65%

128

n/a

106

+132%

n/a

8

=

7

-1

82964

94

+25%

75

0.1

+28%

-1

-2

72%

112

-10%

90

+103%

+25%

9

-2

8

-1

75829

85

+6%

61

0.0

+6%

-1

-1

65%

111

+33%

80

+15%

+28%

6

=

9

-1

59950

114

-7%

46

0.0

-12%

-1

-3

52%

188

-3%

76

-16%

-8%

10

=

10

=

71026

42

+27%

45

0.0

+14%

-1

-1

61%

58

+56%

63

+13%

+34%

Okay, look, I’ll level with you. I thought I had found a way to not have this project monopolize all my time when I started it, but that clearly isn’t the case. These posts are really tedious, starting with scrolling through each week’s schedule and making note of any pre-emptions or modifications, continuing as I go through each individual show – something that seems like it goes by pretty breezily as I’m doing it (so long as I’m not doing a repeating nightly highlight show that’s not SportsCenter, especially if it’s leading out of a live sporting event… shudder) but where the sheer quantity of shows causes it to bog down, all for something of tangential importance at best to what I personally am really interested in, which is the ratings for the actual sporting events.

The week-by-week fluctuations in the shows aren’t very important, and any changes are going to occur slowly over a very long term, other than in-season fluctuations for the sport-specific networks, although I am interested in the short-term bump shows on smaller networks (especially Fox Sports 1) get from popular sporting events. The main reason I decided to do this is because I like the concept, but all my data comes from a single site that anyone can check for themselves (and they are), even if I give the same data in a more user-friendly format, and I’m not getting much of any sort of bump for these posts (not that I’m getting any for the main ratings posts either, but I’m playing a long game there). I’ll do next week’s post, but I have a new Da Blog Poll up asking if I should keep doing these.

All numbers are in thousands of viewers and are from Son of the Bronx.

Approx. 6-10 AM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: SportsCenter (6-9 avg.) 597 744 432 561 498
ESPN2: Mike and Mike 291 252 233 260 273
FS1: Fox Sports Live (6-9 avg.) 11 23 45 12 10
GOLF: Morning Drive (7-9 avg.) 33 47 15 n/a n/a
NFLN: NFLAM 120 66 94 98 110

*6-8:30 average only

Approx. 9 AM-Noon ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: SportsCenter (9-12 avg.) 502 476 356 479 477
ESPN2: First Take (10-12) 472 405 390 341 352
FS1: Fox Sports Live (9-12 avg.) 33 24 25* 3* n/a
GOLF: Morning Drive (9-11 avg.) 35 23 16 36† 36†
NBCSN: The Dan Patrick Show 29 23 26 30 52
ESPNEWS: Mike and Mike (10-1) 26 29 42 22 43
ESPNU: The Herd (10-1) 85 54 n/a 48 50
NFLN: NFLAM (10-2) 177 91 78 73 126

*9-11 average only
†Aired 10-12
‡9 AM episode only

3 PM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: NFL Insiders 488 471† 564 474 461
ESPN2: SportsNation 225 180 142 146 166
FS1: Fox Soccer Daily (3:30-4) 35 236^ 197^ n/a n/a
ESPNEWS: SportsCenter 41 34 38 61 64
ESPNU: CFB Daily 32 37* 62 66 56

*First-run rating for The Experts 1-2:30; 2:30-4 re-air pre-empted for college basketball media days coverage
†Aired from 3-3:30; Mike and Mike’s Best of the NFL 3:30-4 had 512,000 viewers
‡Aired at 6 PM
^UEFA Champions League Soccer 2:30-5 PM

4 PM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: NFL Live 777 621 569 616 520
ESPN2: Highly Questionable (4-4:30) 237 226 209 184 220
ESPN2: Outside the Lines (4:30-5) 220 178 120 111 173
FS1: NASCAR Race Hub 140 12‡ 133* 84† n/a
ESPNEWS: SportsCenter 50 86 38 85 54

*Aired 11-11:30 AM
†Aired 11:30-12:30
‡Aired at noon

5 PM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: Around the Horn (5-5:30) 794 763 698 650 637
ESPN: PTI (5:30-6) 946 971 907 953 895
ESPN2: College Football Live (5-5:30) 183 167 136 131 152
ESPN2: ESPNFC (5:30-6) 83 130 77 64 110
FS1: Crowd Goes Wild 71 92 52 46 128
NBCSN: Pro Football Talk (5:30-6:30) 45 45 49 35 46
ESPNEWS: SportsCenter 105 90 37 84 97
ESPNU: College Football Live (5:30-6) 64 86 57 33 49
NFLN: NFL Fantasy Live 146 203 171 162 113
MLBN: Intentional Talk 48 42 41 82 78

*Aired 5-6:30
†Switched time slots due to soccer

6 PM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

ESPN: SportsCenter 723† 655 613 737 648
ESPN2: Around the Horn (6-6:30) 133 128 86 88 128
ESPN2: PTI (6:30-7) 188 170 187 202 183
FS1: Fox Football Daily 48 43 40 25 74
ESPNEWS: SportsNation n/a 26 48 59 101
NFLN: Around the League Live 183 196 129 100* 146
MLBN: MLB Tonight (6-8) 40 60 109 115 80

*Aired 2-5; NFL Total Access 6-8 had 508,000 viewers
†Monday Kickoff from 6-6:30; SportsCenter on ESPNEWS 6:30-7 had 88,000 viewers

11 PM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

ESPN: SportsCenter 128† 554 272~ 929‡ 1217 209^
ESPN2: Olbermann n/a 294† 68^ 127 161 n/a
FS1: Fox Sports Live 55 50 180 84 28 n/a
NFLN: NFL Total Access 93* 215 193 1659* 169 77

*Aired 11:30-12
†Aired on ESPN2 11-11:30
‡Started after college football
^Aired on ESPNEWS
~Aired on ESPN2

Midnight ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

ESPN: SportsCenter 3937 550 941 783 812 331^
ESPN2: Olbermann n/a 157† 112* 70* 108 n/a
FS1: Fox Sports Live 41 45‡ 162 35 42‡ n/a

*Aired 12:30-1:30
†Average of two half-hour re-airs 11:45-12:45
‡Fox Football Daily
^Aired on ESPNEWS

1 AM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

ESPN: SportsCenter 109* 449 664 561 632 n/a
FS1: Fox Sports Live 26 33 62 19 41 n/a
NFLN: NFL Fantasy Live 68 163 120 333 117 n/a

*Aired on ESPN2; NFL Primetime had 1.924 million viewers
†College Football Final 1:30-2:30
‡Aired 1:30-2:30
^Aired 1-1:30

2 AM ET

Mon

Tue

Wed

Thu

Fri

Sat

ESPN: SportsCenter 1426 379 585 500 464 1210
ESPN2: NASCAR Now (2-2:30) 39* n/a n/a 48 n/a 382‡
FS1: Fox Sports Live 18 24 51 10 6 110†
NFLN: NFL Total Access 48 106 96 254 93 86

*Aired at 2:30
†Aired 2:30-3:30
‡College Football Final 2:30-3:30

Saturday Morning  
ESPN: SportsCenter 8 ET 644
ESPN2: NFL Matchup 8:30 ET 185
FS1: Fox Sports Live 8-10 avg. 30
ESPN: College Gameday 9 ET 1680
ESPN2: SportsCenter 9-12 avg. 320
ESPNU: Dari and Mel 9 ET 72
FS1: Fox College Saturday 10 ET 85
ESPNU: First Take CFB 10 ET 33
ESPNU: Film Room 10:30 ET 15
ESPNU: Whiparound 11 ET 64

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Sun 7 AM 8 AM 9 AM 10 AM 11 AM Noon

SportsCenter

SportsCenter

SportsCenter

Sunday NFL Countdown

706K/.5

963K/.7

1.250M/.9

2.052M/1.4

CFB Final

OTL

SR

Colin on FB

SportsCenter

Fantasy FB Now

288/.2

186

239

189K/.2

415K/.3

415K/.3

Fox Sports Live

Fox Sports Live

Fox Sports Live

RaceDay

Fox NFL Kickoff

35K/.0

53K/.0

85K/.1

355K/.3

241K/.2

OTL

SR

Colin on FB

SportsCenter

SportsCenter

50

129

96K/.1

144K/.1

92K/.1

NFL Gameday First

NFL Gameday Morning

139K/.1

515K/.3

MLB Tonight

MLB Tonight

MLB Tonight

MLB Tonight

MLB Tonight

MLB Tonight

38K/.0

101K/.1

83K/.1

83K/.1

110K/.1

65K/.0

*Aired to 8:30

Afternoon Post/SNF Bridge  
NBC: Hyundai Sunday Night Kickoff (8-8:20) 10,130
ESPN: SportsCenter (7-8:30) 889
NFLN: NFL Gameday Highlights (7:30-8:30) 325

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Sunday Night  
ESPN: SportsCenter 11 788
ESPN: SportsCenter 12:30 835
ESPN2: NASCAR Now 11 165
ESPN2: Baseball Tonight 12:30 240
ESPN2: ESPNFC 1 68
FS1: Fox Sports Live 11 34
FS1: Fox Sports Live 12:30 32
NFLN: NFL Gameday Overtime 11:30 234
NFLN: NFL Gameday Final 12 403

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Top 10 Weekly Shows Not Otherwise On Chart  
ESPN: Monday Night Countdown Mon 6:30p 2370
ESPN: NASCAR Countdown (NSCS) Sun 1p 2090
ESPN: E:60 Tue 7p 863
ESPN: Top NFL Matchup airing Sat/Sun 2:45a 717
ESPN: BCS Countdown Sun 8:30p 666
FS1: NCWTS Setup Sat 1p 272
GOLF: Big Break XX: NFL Tue 9p 264
NFLN: A Football Life Tue 9p 254
ESPN2: NFL Kickoff Fri 7p 246
NFLN: Playbook NFC Fri 10p 221
NFLN: Playbook AFC Fri 9p 219
NFLN: Sound FX Wed 10p 196
NFLN: A Football Life Backstory Tue 10p 190

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