Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Baseball ratings way up

Nielsen estimates that an average aud of 19 million viewers watched the Boston Red Sox cap their rally in the best-of-seven series with an 11-2 victory on Sunday. That made it the most-watched program of the night -- besting "Desperate Housewives" on ABC and "Sunday Night Football" on NBC -- and will help Fox win the week's primetime ratings race among young adults and total viewers.
For the entire American League Championship Series, Fox averaged 11.6 million viewers

I would have never guessed baseball would EVER beat a football game, no matter what the match-up.
Baseball is a great game, and I'm glad to see more and more people enjoying it...
Unlike the NBA, which can't even get anywhere near 10 million a game for the finals...probably because it stopped being basketball about 8 years ago.

1 comments:

Scorpion said...

GAME--The ideas of BUD SELIG over the last decade has taken BASEBALL
to a period of competitive balance
that is shown in the latest popularity increase.Now we'll see if the non-action on the steroid situation will hang over the positives now being seen.