*2013-14 NHL TV Ratings*

[IU Hawks fan]

Preseason is underway! Any games been televised thus far?

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[LadyStanley]

On NHL Network US, yes. (And CBC at least.) Perhaps regional carriers.

 

[LPHabsFan]

As what will come as very little surprise to no one, all Habs pre-season games are being shown on RDS including one on TSN2 tonight against Boston.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Pens did a 4.5 last night. Peaked at 7.1 when the Broncos game ended.

My god...

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Against the Wings.

Against the Blue Jackets, actually.

 

[Jonas1235]

TSN will be airing more pre-season games towards the end of pre-season than the beginning. FYI

 

[No Fun Shogun]

No hangover for Blackhawks preseason ratings.

OFFICIAL: @CSNChicago posted its highest-rtd #Blackhawks 'pre-season' TV rating ever for last night's gm vs PIT (2.4); prv rcd 1.5 from '10

https://twitter.com/JeffNuich/status/381067702124556289

All the more impressive when you remember that it went head to head against Thursday Night Football.

 

[Jonas1235]

so Sidney comes to town and your ratings go up? Huh, don't believe it.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

so Sidney comes to town and your ratings go up? Huh, don't believe it.

Yes, the Blackhawks ratings were shattered because of Sidney Crosby's presence.

 

[rkhum]

Does anybody have the full MLB season ratings by market for comparison?

 

[LadyStanley]

For reference....

stevelepore 8:52am via Web Recent NHL cable opening night numbers:

2011, PHI vs. BOS (VERSUS): 874K
2010, PHI vs. PIT (VERSUS): 730K
2009, WSH vs. BOS (VERSUS): 501K

 

[rkhum]

Here is a partial of MLB Ratings

I'd like it if we could get full MLB local ratings so we can compare it to the NHL:

For the second straight year, the Detroit Tigers led all Major League Baseball teams in local TV ratings.

Fox Sports Detroit averaged a 9.59 rating for Tigers games during the 2013 regular season, up 4% from last year’s 9.21, and the highest average ever for the Tigers on the network. The previous record was set last year.

As was the case last year, the Tigers had the highest local rating in baseball.

The St. Louis Cardinals ranked second for the season with an 8.83 average on FS Midwest, up 15% from last year (7.70).

The biggest increase of the season belonged to the Royals, whose 6.39 average on FS Kansas City marked a 70% from last year’s 3.76. The Indians (5.55, +43%), Dodgers (2.70, +41%), Padres (2.42, +30%) and Orioles (6.34, +28%) rounded out the top five.

(Nielsen)

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013/10/local-mlb-tv-ratings-tigers-lead-the-way-again-cards-second/

 

[Hawkscap]

NBCSportsPR ‏@NBCSportsPR 2h
Washington delivered 2.22 w Buffalo (1.49), Baltimore (1.19) and Ft. Myers (0.98) rounding out top


NBCSportsPR ‏@NBCSportsPR 2h
Chicago delivered 7.15 rating for last night's game, highest ever for reg-season gm on @NBCSN, which was No. 1 cable chl in market during gm



NBCSportsPR ‏@NBCSportsPR 2h
Last night’s Capitals-Blackhawks season opener on @NBCSN scores 0.70 overnight, best ever #NHL opener for NBCSN @WashCaps @NHLBlackhawks

 

[Teemu]

Chris Kuc ‏@ChrisKuc 1m
#Blackhawks-Capitals watched by an average of 935,000 viewers on NBCSN, making it most-watched season opener on cable on record.

Rated a 0.5 in 18-49, the highest I can remember for a NBCSN game. I'm sure NBCSN will remind us if so.

EDIT: Narrowly beaten by Bruins-Rangers last year (the premiere of Rivalry Wednesday)

 

[ebox99]

650K viewers from Chicago area.

300K from rest of US doesn't seem right.

 

[Jonas1235]

how does 7 percent equal 650,000 people in Chicago? there's 10 million people in Chicago?

 

[46zone]

650K viewers from Chicago area.

300K from rest of US doesn't seem right.

Perhaps you got these figures backwards?

 

[Ace Rothstein]

how does 7 percent equal 650,000 people in Chicago? there's 10 million people in Chicago?

There are nearly 10 million people in the Chicago metro. The metro is what is used in ratings.

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

650K viewers from Chicago area.

300K from rest of US doesn't seem right.

Because it's not. A 7.15 rating in Chicago is about 375,000 people.

how does 7 percent equal 650,000 people in Chicago? there's 10 million people in Chicago?

There are 3,484,800 TV households in the Chicago market. One ratings point is 34,848 households.

 

[ebox99]

Because it's not. A 7.15 rating in Chicago is about 375,000 people.



There are 3,484,800 TV households in the Chicago market. One ratings point is 34,848 households.

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/mad...pener-Smashes-More-TV-Records--226158371.html

According to NBC Sports Network, the game drew a 7.15 rating in the Chicago area, which means that there were roughly 650,000 viewers tuned into the contest.

Not sure how they get 650K from 7.15 rating but that's what I read

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

Okay didn't see that. I have no idea where they got that number of people but I'm pretty sure that's off by a couple hundred thousand.

 

[kdb209]

http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/mad...pener-Smashes-More-TV-Records--226158371.html

According to NBC Sports Network, the game drew a 7.15 rating in the Chicago area, which means that there were roughly 650,000 viewers tuned into the contest.

Not sure how they get 650K from 7.15 rating but that's what I read

Howabout ...

Chicago DMA has 3,534,080 Households.

7.15 * 0.01 * 3,534,080 = 252,687 Households * ~2.5 viewers/HH = ~632K viewers

I'm not sure the exact average of viewers/HH - but that at least gets you close.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

They're probably multiplying the household number by 2, to account for the average numbers of viewers likely to be watching (some houses have 1 watching, some have 4, etc).

EDIT: Or what KDB said, 2.5 makes sense as well

 

[AdmiralsFan24]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they multiply by 1.5.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they multiply by 1.5.

Well, based off the numbers we're looking at here that's far too low.