What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s broadcast network telecasts on Thursday, March 29: Thursday’s New York Yankees-Toronto Blue Jays Season Opener game averaged a 5.34 TV household rating in the New York TV market, making it YES Network’s highest-rated Yankees Season Opener in seven years, since 2011. The […]
The New York Yankees made one of baseball’s biggest acquisitions of the 2017-18 offseason back in December when they traded for Giancarlo Stanton, the reigning National League Most Valuable Player formerly of the Miami Marlins. Stanton’s first plate appearance as a New York Yankee took place on MLB Opening Day on Mar. 29 in Toronto […]
Aaron Boone is reportedly leaving ESPN after eight years on the network as an on-air baseball analyst which included his work on “Sunday Night Baseball”. On Dec. 1, multiple reports indicated he will be hired as the new manager of the New York Yankees — the 35th in its franchise history. Boone had a 12-year […]
Fox topped Wednesday with the 11-inning Game 2 of MLB’s “2017 World Series” between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Averaging 15.483 million viewers from 8:13 p.m.-12:36 a.m. ET, it was down 11 percent from last year’s Cubs-Indians (17.4 million; best mark since 2009) but up 13 percent from Mets-Royals in 2015 (13.72 […]
FS1 was the No. 1 network by all accounts on Saturday night, courtesy of the deciding Game 7 of the “2017 American League Championship Series” between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros. It was the most-watched telecast in FS1 history, with an average of 9.924 million viewers, peaking at 11.758 million viewers from […]
Game 6 of the “2017 American League Championship Series” between the New York Yankees and the Houston Astros propelled the sports cable channel FS1 to win Friday night overall on television. The telecast drew 8.225 million viewers on FS1, 269,000 viewers on Spanish-language network Fox Deportes and approximately 116,000 viewers on its streaming app Fox […]
CBS led Wednesday night in total viewers (7.06 million). Fox topped adults 18-49 (1.6 rating/6 share) and adults 25-54 (1.9/6). TBS was No. 1 among adults 18-34 (approx. 1.2 rating), courtesy of Game 4 of the “2017 National League Championship Series” between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs. The telecast led cable in […]
Three networks had a share of Tuesday night leadership: CBS in total viewers (10.96 million), NBC among adults 25-54 (2.6 rating/8 share), and TNT, courtesy of an NBA Opening Night doubleheader oh Boston Celtics at Cleveland Cavaliers and Houston Rockets at Golden State Warriors, among adults 18-49 and adults 18-34. Overall, TNT’s NBA Opening Night […]
With a less than stellar NFL matchup of the Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans, which aired opposite American League Championship Series Game 3: Houston Astros at New York Yankees on FS1, ESPN ceded the Monday night viewer crown to its fellow Disney-owned network ABC. ABC averaged 9.9 million viewers. Each of the first four episodes […]
