Sports Ratings Report for Week of September 9-15

Sports Ratings Highlights for Week of September 9-15: Dos a Cero Edition

You may notice the numbers for Monday and Thursday Night Football are different from what you might see reported in other places. Well, remember that those games are aired on local stations in the local markets, and so the most accurate counts for those games, at least for the purposes for which I keep track of these things, would include those stations. As it happens, Nielsen counts those games as syndicated shows, and because of the way Nielsen calculates ratings for syndicated shows the viewership on ESPN and NFL Network is included as well, so when the weekly syndicated ratings reports come out MNF and TNF are near the top and include the numbers for those local stations. The syndicated ratings reports come out with Nielsen’s other weekly reports on Tuesday but a week later than everything else, so I’m going to be targeting Tuesday as the earliest I put up this post from now on.

Numbers compiled from a variety of sources, including TV by the Numbers, The Futon Critic, Sports Media Watch, and Son of the Bronx.

Top 20 Most-Viewed Sports Events for Week of August 12-18: Yankees-Red Sox Edition

These numbers are delayed a month to wait for SportsBusiness Daily’s ratings roundup to come out of the paywall. Other numbers from the same sources as before. Numbers in gray interpolated based on the rest of the chart.