If San Francisco and Texas make it to the WS it will be one of the least watched in history ratings wise

[Objection]

By Michael Hiestand, USA TODAY



The NFL years ago surpassed MLB as a TV draw. Still, this is pretty extreme: The preliminary rating for ESPN's less-than-stellar Monday night NFL matchup easily surpassed the rating for TBS' ALCS coverage — which included the New York Yankees.
With its Titans-Jaguars game, ESPN had two small-market teams — Nashville is the USA's 29th-biggest TV market while Jacksonville is just No. 47 — and neither team is particularly star-studded nor considered a championship contender.
And the game itself was hardly suspenseful: The Titans won 30-3.


Still, ESPN drew a 7.2 overnight rating, translating to 7.2% of households in the 56 urban TV markets measured for overnights.
That was good enough to best TBS' Rangers-Yankees game. Despite having baseball's biggest draw in the Yanks and a big-market team from Dallas, the fifth-ranked TV market, TBS drew a 6.5% overnight.


The TV ratings question going forward shouldn't be whether MLB's postseason will ever catch up to any NFL action, but whether the NBA's postseason ratings might this season catch up to MLB's postseason viewership

 

[sdf]

i'm not sure casual sports fans knew MLB was on TBS.

ESPN wins by default

plus there was some fantasy football heads needing CJ2K to have a big game

 

[Willie99]

two of the smaller markets will mean low ratings

but we'll be watching

 

[RenoChazz]

I wouldn't consider SF a small market

 

[track1]

dallas is a 4th in the sports market behind ny, la and chicago. its big enough that dallas has its own espn.com/dallas page

 

[mazinkaiser]

I'll watch because I'm a baseball fan. Played it from 6th grade through college and some adult leagues til I hit 30 then hung up the spikes. I will admit that I rarely watch regular season baseball. It's really a fun game to play, but hard to watch during the regular season.

 

[Willie99]

they just don't pull like the big boys, even less than the Twins

2009 MLB Local Ratings (Source: SportsBusiness Journal)
Regional Sports 2009 avg. households 2009 rating
Network Team (% change from 2008) (% change from 2008)
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YES Yankees 346,000 (+ 11.3%) 4.66 (+ 10.7%)
NESN Red Sox 228,000 (- 6.6%) 9.46 (- 7.1%)
CSN Philadelphia Phillies 210,000 (+ 24.3%) 7.13 (+ 24.0%)
SportNet New York Mets 200,000 (- 16.7%) 2.69 (- 17.2%)
CSN Chicago Cubs 145,000 (- 15.7%) 4.16 (- 16.3%)
FS Detroit Tigers 133,000 (+ 9.9%) 6.89 (+ 10.1%)
FS Prime Ticket Dodgers 122,000 (+ 13.0%) 2.15 (+ 12.0%)
FS North Twins 108,000 (- 15.6%) 6.25 (- 16.4%)
FS Midwest Cardinals 100,000 (+ 2.0%) 7.97 (+ 1.0%)
FSN Northwest Mariners 95,000 (+ 28.4%) 5.20 (+ 25.3%)
FS South Braves 83,000 (+ 38.3%) 3.52 (+ 35.4%)
SportSouth Braves 81,000 (+ 37.3%) 3.42 (+ 34.6%)
CSN Bay Area Giants 81,000 (+ 42.1%) 3.27 (+ 39.1%)
CSN Chicago White Sox 80,000 (+ 9.6%) 2.28 (+ 8.1%)
FS West Angels 69,000 (- 10.4%) 1.22 (- 10.3%)
SUN Sports Rays 65,000 ( N/A) 3.54 ( N/A)
FS Southwest Rangers 63,000 (+ 61.5%) 2.54 (+ 57.8%)
FSN Rocky Mountain Rockies 63,000 (+ 31.3%) 4.12 (+ 25.6%)
FS Arizona Diamondbacks 62,000 (- 16.2%) 3.32 (- 19.0%)
FS Houston Astros 61,000 (- 3.2%) 2.90 (- 5.8%)
FS Florida Rays 57,000 (- 8.1%) 3.13 (- 9.8%)
FS Wisconsin Brewers 56,000 (- 15.2%) 6.16 (- 17.1%)
FS Florida Marlins 52,000 (- 7.1%) 3.33 (- 8.5%)
SunSports Marlins 50,000 (- 12.3%) 3.23 (- 12.9%)
SportsTime Ohio Indians 43,000 (- 28.3%) 2.84 (- 27.4%)
Cox/SD 4 Padres 41,000 (- 6.8%) 3.80 (- 9.7%)
FSN Pittsburgh Pirates 38,000 (+ 18.8%) 3.25 (+ 18.2%)
FS Ohio Reds 35,000 (- 22.2%) 3.81 (- 23.0%)
MASN/MASN2 Orioles 32,000 (+ 10.3%) 2.90 (+ 9.8%)
FS Kansas City Royals 29,000 (+ 7.4%) 3.09 (+ 8.0%)
CSN California A's 20,000 (- 52.4%) 0.82 (- 52.6%)
MASN/MASN2 Nationals 14,000 (+ 75.0%) 0.60 (+ 66.7%)

 

[Murphy8276]

the sportsbooks are controlling this shit anyway, not the cable networks.

the books were happy as shit to rid yanks and now a chance to rid phillies as 90% of future betting exists on these two teams....that is a helluva lot of cash the books can rake in


not to mention they have an opportunity to have cliff lee vs lincicum in game 1. LOL if you don't think people will bet and watch that you are crazy.

gl all

-murph

 

[soonerdawg1]

who gives a shit

GO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!