Sports Ratings Report for October 27-November 2 and Weekend Sports Ratings for November 8-9

	Vwrs (000)	Change
		Lst Wk	Lst Yr
	#1	=	=
	5062	+65%	+113%
	#2	+1	=
	1014	+81%	+7%
	#3	-1	=
	595	-2%	-1%
	#4	=	=
	283	+17%	+20%
	#5	+1	=
	110	+24%	-39%
	#6	+1	+2
	95	+32%	+3%
	#7	-2	-1
	81	-49%	-21%
	#8	=	-1
	60	+9%	-39%
	#9	=	=
	59	+11%	-8%
	#10	=	=
	35	+84%	+17%

	Vwrs (000)	Change
		Lst Wk	Lst Yr
	#1	=	=
	1710	+42%	+45%
	#2	=	=
	331	+3%	+2%
	#3	=	=
	289	+38%	+2%
	#4	=	+2
	121	-16%	+44%
	#5	=	-1
	113	-17%	-34%
	#6	=	+2
	76	-12%	+3%
	#7	+1	=
	66	+29%	-13%
	#8	+1	+1
	58	+21%	-11%
	#9	-2	-4
	55	+4%	-38%
	#10	=	=
	31	0%	0%

All right, so I’m trying out a new split-chart system. The table on the left has the primetime numbers, the table on the right the total day numbers. I hope there aren’t people with screen resolutions small enough that the tables run into each other (or for that matter, that they wouldn’t run into each other if I had an app pinned to the side on my Surface that doesn’t work), and as is I may have to start writing longer analyses to fill the height of the table in order to avoid wonkiness on the main blog page and big gaps on the post itself.

The year-by-year comparisons suggest that the MLB Postseason is resulting in some continuing lift for Fox Sports 1. (We’ll see what happens in a week without the World Series on Fox luring people to the channel, but the Series resulted in very little lift to FSL’s postgame shows. On the other hand, FSL seems to have seen very little continuing aftereffect from the postseason in general, suggesting its current format is not clicking with audiences any more than it was a year ago.) It’s disappointing that a big Baylor-Oklahoma game couldn’t beat a substantially less-big SEC game on ESPN this past weekend, but FS1 should take some heart that it did as well as it did, topping two million viewers in a noon time slot and beating all but one nationally televised game in the time slot.

This week, with-locals numbers for MNF and TNF; next week, the return of the charts with numbers from SportsBusiness Daily!

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Weekend Broadcast Primetime and Top Cable Sports Ratings for November 8-9

All information from TVByTheNumbers and TV Media Insights.

Weekend Broadcast Daytime Overnight Sports Ratings

These numbers only incorporate data from the 56 metered markets and should not be used to infer precise final ratings. Events will generally finish in the same order, but not always. All information from Sports Media Watch.

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of October 27-November 2

In addition to the sources for the Weekend Sports Ratings, this chart contains additional information from Awful Announcing and Sports Media Watch, as well as occasional other sources.