During TV Premiere Week Sunday Night Football Wins in the Primetime Ratings
NBC Sports reports today that Sunday’s Patriots-Falcons matchup on Sunday Night Football (SNF) was the most-watched primetime program in “Premiere Week” drawing an average of 20.5 million viewers.
Sunday’s SNF had a rating of 12.5 and was primetime’s top show in the Adults and Men 18-49, 18-34 and 25-54 demographics.
ESPN/ABC Earn Top Ratings for Saturday College Football
For the fifth consecutive Saturday night college football action on ABC and ESPN was the top rated program for the evening.
The Saturday Night Football telecast on ABC – Ohio State over Wisconsin 31-24 – averaged 6,751,000 viewers and a 4.0 household US rating, helping the network to the top spot on September 28.
ESPN’s primetime games finished a combined second for the night; with Alabama beating Ole Miss 25-0 at 6:30 p.m. ET averaging 4,022,000 viewers and a 2.3 HH US rating while Stanford’s 55-17 victory over Washington State at 10 p.m. averaged 1,851,000 viewers and a 1.2 HH US rating.
CBS Sports Network Gets Wider Carriage on Time Warner Cable Systems
CBS and Time Warner cable have announced a deal to provide wider distribution of the CBS Sports Network to Time Warner cable subscribers. CBS Sports Network has been added to Time Warner Cable’s DTV-Digital TV package on most systems, beginning today.
CBS Sports Network is now seen in over 53 million homes and is available to more than 99 million households across the country.
MLB Playoffs Forces Shift of Chargers/Raiders from CBS to NFL Network
The NFL announced yesterday that this Sunday’s Chargers/Raiders game in Oakland will kick-off at 8:35p.m. PT to accommodate a change in field conditions warranted by the Oakland A’s Divisional Series playoff game. The A’s play Saturday and it will take the crew at the O.co Coliseum all day Sunday to covert the field from baeball to football.
The change will mean the game will not air on CBS are originally scheduled but instead will be telecast on the NFL Network. CBS announcers Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts will still call the game as scheduled.
MLB Network Adds Guest Analysts for Postseason Coverage
Current Major Leaguers Raul Ibanez, Mark DeRossa, Mark Texeira, and Adam Jones will join White Sox announcer Ken Harrelson as guest analysts during the MLB Network’s coverage of baseball’s postseason.
The MLB Network will provide 165 hours of programming covering the 2013 Postseason which includes MLB Network’s two exclusive LDS game telecasts this Friday, October 4, with Bob Costas, Jim Kaat and Sam Ryan on the call, and on Monday, October 7, with Matt Vasgersian, Kaat and Ryan.
Fox Sports Partners with USA Rugby
Fox Sports and USA Rugby have entered into an agreement with USA Rugby to televise the U.S. Eagle’ss match against the New Zealand Maori All Blacks November 9th at PPL Park in Philadelphia.
The game will be taped televised on Fox Sports 1 November 10th at Noon ET.
“USA Rugby is very excited about FOX Sports 1 airing the match from Philadelphia,” USA Rugby Chief Commercial Officer Jon Persch said. “FOX Sports 1offers USA Rugby the greatest number of viewers with the new channel being offered in 90 million homes. On top of that, FOX Sports has had a monumental impact covering the world’s most elite sporting events and we are thrilled to share this marquee matchup with FOX Sports.”
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