ESPN TV Ratings for 2014/15

[AZ Shocker]

The game at Loyola has been confirmed to be on the U:

@Talk_Angry:: It was announced today that the Shockers game at Loyola on January 11th will be on ESPNU at 4 pm CST. #watchus
12/31/2014

Awesome!!!

[RoyalShock]

I don't think it's a coincidence that two of our conference games have been picked up by ESPN since the Utah and Alabama games.

Now we need to get back to a nice winning streak.

[Shocker-maniac]

The ESPN ratings for the week of December 22nd through 28th have been published. The thriller between Hawaii ranked 8th for the week on ESPN2 with 628,000 viewers. The loss to GWU on Christmas night was viewed by 485,000 and ranked 15th on the deuce. The LMU beat down on ESPNU was viewed by 123,000 and ranked 11th. The to date totals for all games on ESPN are updated in post number 1 of this thread. Below are the top 10 programs for ESPN2 and ESPNU for the week:

ESPN2
1. College Basketball: Louisville at Kentucky - 3.495M viewers
2. College Basketball: Georgetown at Indiana - 1.254M
3. College Football Bowl Game: USC v Nebraska - 1.242M
4. College Basketball: UAB at North Carolina - 1.242M
5. College Basketball: Gonzaga at BYU - 865K
6. Pardon the Interruption - 713K
7. The Book of Manning Documentary - 661K
8. College Basketball: Wichita State v. Hawaii - 628K
9. College Basketball: Kansas at Temple - 606K
10. Bad Boys Documentary - 595K

ESPNU
1. College Football Bowl Game: Central Michigan v. Western Kentucky - 356K viewers
2. The U, Part 2 Documentary - 224K
3. College Basketball: Ohio v. Nebraska - 202K
4. College Basketball: Cal State Northridge - 182K
5. College Football Bowl Game: Fresno State v. Rice - 166K
6. Road to the CFP: Florida State - 156K
7. The U, Part 2 Documentary - 146K
8. The U Documentary - 143K
8. Brian and the Boz Documentary - 143K
10. Road to the CFP: Oregon - 142K

Notes:
- The highest viewed ESPN program was the Denver at Cincinnatti NFL game with 16 million viewers.
- The Colorado at Hawaii basketball game ranked 50th on ESPN2 with 307,000 viewers.
- The UCLA at Alabama game was 20th on ESPNU with 101K viewers.
- GWU v. Colorado was 27th viewed game on ESPNU with 85K.
- LMU v. Nebraska was 66th on the U with 46K.
- DePaul v. Colorado was 80th on ESPNU with 32K.
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NOTE: I will finish this later.

[shox1989]

8. College Basketball: Wichita State v. Hawaii - 628K
9. College Basketball: Kansas at Temple - 606K



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Interesting numbers.

[shox1989]

Another interesting comparison to last year. This year twice as many people- 2,919,000 have watched the Shocks play on national tv then last year thru 12/31- 1,486,000. The main reason the numbers are basically twice as good is that the Shockers have been on the espn family of networks 8 times this year thru 12/31 vs. 4 times last year.

[Shocker-maniac]

Ratings for the week of Dec. 29 - Jan. 4th

It's tough for a regular season college basketball game to compete with the NFL especially on ESPNU. There were 63,000 viewers for the Illinois State at Wichita State game last Sunday afternoon. The game ranked 30th for the week on ESPNU. This is the lowest rated game for WSU so far this season. This comes the week after some pretty robust ratings during the DHC in Hawaii. To date, there have been almost 3 million viewers of the Shocker games.

Below is a listing of the top 10 for ESPNU for the week.

1. College Basketball: Louisville at Wake Forest - 533K viewers
2. College Basketball: Washington at Stanford - 230K
3. College Basketball: Kansas St. at Oklahoma St - 199K
4. College Basketball: Virginia Tech at West Virginia - 159K
5. Documentary: Rand University - 154K
6. SportsCenter (Sun. 7:30PM) - 146K
7. College Basketball: Davidson at Virginia - 140K
8. College Football Bowl Game - 127K
9. College Basketball: Texas at Texas Tech - 120K
10. College Basketball: Baylor at Oklahoma - 110K

Other College Basketball Games Involving Regional Teams:

• OKST at Washington - 15th on ESPN2 - 596K viewers
• OKST at Missouri - 27th on ESPN2 - 500K
• Iowa at OHST - 29th on ESPN2 - 472K
• SMU at Cinncinnati - 54th on ESPN2 - 326K
• USF at SMU - 127th on ESPN2 - 92K
• Tulane at Memphis - 20th on ESPNU - 79K
• Georgia at KState - 27th on ESPNU - 73K
• Houston at Memphis - 42nd on ESPNU - 50K
• Tulsa at UCF - 65th on ESPNU - 34K
• Houston at Tulsa - 110th on ESPNN - 56K
• Rhode Island at St. Louis - 108th on NBCSN - 27K
• Creighton at Providence - 42nd on FS1 - 105K
• Creighton at Georgetown - 73rd on FS1 - 58K

Notes:

• The highest rated college basketball game on NBC Sports Network was Duquense at Dayton with 49K viewers. It ranked only 7 spots behind the Walleye National Tour at 68th. I don't think that the Atlantic 10 conference has a very good TV contract.
• The highest rated college basketball game on FS1 was Xavier at DePaul with 183K viewers. Ranked 21st.
• The college football championship games were a huge success taking the 1 and 2 spots on ESPN. 28M watched OHST v. Alabama, and another 28M watched the Oregon v. Florida State game.
• The highest rated college basketball game on ESPN was Illinois at OHST with 1.7M viewers and a 27th ranking.

[Shocker-maniac]

Ratings for the week of Jan. 5 - 11[/I]

The Shockers had another game on ESPNU on a Sunday afternoon during NFL playoffs, but they had almost 150% higher viewership than the week before with the game against Illinois St. Could the bump be due to playing Chicago market team? Who knows the reasons, but the viewership for the game was 94,000 which ranked 14th on ESPNU for the week. For the season, there have been 10 Shocker games on national TV with almost 3.1 million total viewers. This averages to about 308,000 viewers per game.

Here are the top 10 ESPNU programs for the week.

1. Kansas at Baylor - 316K viewers
2. WVU at Texas Tech - 310K
3. Florida State at Syracuse - 302K
4. Minnesota at Michigan - 296K
5. Texas Tech at Kansas - 223K
6. Syracuse at Georgia Tech - 214K
7. Texas at Oklahoma St - 210K
8. Rutgers at Nebraska - 186K
9. College Football Bowl Game: Alabama v.Ohio St - 170K
10. Kansas St at Oklahoma - 143K

Other Games of Inerest
game/network/rank/viewers

Oklahoma at Texas - ESPN (24) 911K
FCS Football Championship: Illinois St v. North Dakota - ESPN2 (1) 1,444M
Oklahoma St at Iowa St - ESPN2 (8) 452K
Iowa St at WVU - ESPN2 (11) 432K
Baylor at TCU - ESPN2 (34) 298K
Colorado at Utah - ESPN2 (37) 292K
Memphis at SMU - ESPN2 (95) 172K
Tulsa at Temple - ESPNN (77) 58K
TCU at Kansas St - ESPNN (104) 45K
UCF at Houston - ESPNN (152) 25K
Seton Hall at Creighton - FS1 (17) 122K
Depaul at Creighton - FS1 (24) 77K

Notes

• The highest viewed college basketball game on NBCSN was George Washington at LaSalle which ranked 84th on the network with 43K viewers.
• The highest ranked college basketball game on FS1 was Arizona at Oregon St with 193K viewers that ranked 7th.
• The highest viewed college basketball game on ESPN was Louisville at North Carolina with 1,741M viewer which ranked 2nd on the network.
• The highest viewed college basketball game on ESPN2 was NC State at Virginia with 511K viewers and a ranking of 3rd.

[Shocker-maniac]

Ratings for the week of Jan. 12th - 18th

The Shockers were not on national TV during this time. The next time will be the @UNI game on Jan. 31st on ESPN2.

Ratings of selected games
game/network/rank/viewers

Kansas at Iowa St. ESPN 16 1.5M
West Virginia at Texas ESPN 21 1.12M
Cincinnatti at Memphis ESPN 80 542K
Nebraska at Wisconsin ESPN2 5 688K
OKST at Kansas ESPN2 7 601K
OKST at Oklahoma ESPN2 15 410K
BYU at St Marys ESPN2 49 261K
San Diego State at Wyoming ESPN2 69 193K
Baylor at KState ESPNU 2 228K
Iowa St at Baylor ESPNU 4 200K
BYU at Pacific ESPNU 15 94K
UNLV at Boise St ESPNU 22 73K
Tulsa at USF ESPNU 24 70K
George Mason at Richmond ESPNU 37 56K
Temple at Cincinnatti ESPNU 38 55K
Missouri St at UNI ESPNU 40 56K
Houston at Eastern Carolina ESPNU 76 29K
Oklahoma at West Virginia ESPNN 5 172K
Texas Tech at KState ESPNN 25 119K
TCU at Texas Tech ESPNN 112 43K
Tulane at Houson ESPNN 160 22K
SLU at Dayton NBCSN 33 77K
Rhode Island at UMass NBCSN 40 60K
George Mason at George Washington NBCSN 111 22K
Butler at Seton Hall FS1 10 139K
Providence at Creighton FS1 12 127K
Creighton at Providence FS1 71 23K

[Shocker-maniac]

There were 507,000 viewers of WSU at UNI game which ranked 8th on the ESPN2 network for the week of Jan. 26 through Feb. 1. For the season there have been more than 3.5 million viewers of nationally televised Shocker games which averages to about 325,000 viewers per game.

[shox1989]

Just to add to Shocker maniac's post, the WSU-UNI game was the 4th highest rated mens college basketball game on the deuce for that week (8th overall on the deuce as pointed out by Shocke-maniac).

Some of the men's college basketball games that it beat out on the deuce include: #12 OU vs. Okie St 490k, #15 Tennessee vs. Auburn 451K, #18 Richmond vs. VCU 382K, #20 Texas vs. Baylor 372K, #36 Utah vs. UCLA 303K, and #49 TEXAS AM VS. SO. CAR. 266K. (The first # is the overall ranking on espn2 for the week, the second number is the number of viewers for that game).

Source: awful announcing. com

[Shocker-maniac]

Apparently America is not ready to watch the Shocks put a whoopin' on Div. 2.5 SWMOST. There were only 228K viewers on the deuce for this game. For the week of Feb. 2 - 8 this ranked 54th on the network. For the 12 nationally televised games so far this season, there have been a total of 3.8 million viewers which averages to about 317,000 viewers per game.

[shox1989]

Apparently America is not ready to watch the Shocks put a whoopin' on Div. 2.5 SWMOST. There were only 228K viewers on the deuce for this game. For the week of Feb. 2 - 8 this ranked 54th on the network. For the 12 nationally televised games so far this season, there have been a total of 3.8 million viewers which averages to about 317,000 viewers per game.

Even a WSU blowout against an undermanned MOST, more than doubled the audience of the highest rated BB game on FS1 that week- Washington at Oregon St drew 117K. The highest rated nBE game on FS1-St. Johns at Butler drew 104K. The highest rated Creighton game for the week drew 73K on FS1.

The highest rated college basketball game on NBC Sports that week was SLU @ Fordham which drew just 60,000 viewers. It shows once again that even when playing in a blowout it is good to be on espn.

Source: http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/nbcs...ruary-2-8.html

[Shocker-maniac]

Since there is a new page on this thread, here are the ratings for the season:

DAY DATE TIME (CST)	OPPONENT	NETWORK	H(OME) A(WAY) N(EUTRAL)	NETWORK RANK	HH	VIEWERS (000'S)
TUE 11/18 1 PM	MEMPHIS	ESPN	N	103	0.3	425
WED 12/3 10PM	UTAH	ESPN2	A	20	0.2	341
TUE 12/9 6PM	SETON HALL	ESPN2	H	33	0.2	284
SAT 12/13 11AM	DETROIT	ESPNU	A	27	0.1	88
TUE 12/16 8PM	ALABAMA	ESPN2	H	3	0.4	545
MON 12/22 10PM	LMU	ESPNU	N	11	0.1	123
TUE 12/23 8PM	HAWAII	ESPN2	A	8	0.4	628
THU 12/25 7:30PM	GWU	ESPN2	N	15	0.3	485
SUN 1/4 4:30PM	ILST	ESPNU	H	30	0.0	63
SUN 1/11 TBA	LU-C	ESPNU	A	14	0.1	94
SAT 1/31 3PM	UNI	ESPN2	A	8	0.3	507
SAT 2/7 7PM	MOST	ESPN2	A	54	0.2	228
SAT 2/14 5PM	ILST	ESPN2	A	19	0.2	291
SUN 2/22	EVANSVILLE	ESPNU	H
SAT 2/28 ESPN	UNI	TBD	H
				Total Viewers AVG/GAME		4,102,000 315,538

RANK = RANKING OF TV RATINGS FOR THAT NETWORK DURING THE WEEK.
HH = % OF HOUSEHOLDS WITH TVs VIEWING THE GAME.
VIEWERS = NUMBER OF VIEWERS IN THOUSANDS

Source: awfulannouncing.com

[Shocker-maniac]

There were 291,000 viewers for the WICH at ILST game on Feb. 14th. For the week of Feb. 9 - 15, this game ranked 19th on ESPN2. There were 73,000 viewers of the UNI at MSU game on Feb. 15th. This ranked 11th for the week on ESPNU.

For the season, there have been 4.1 million viewers of Wichita State's 13 nationally televised games which averages to 315K viewers per game.

[AZ Shocker]

There were 291,000 viewers for the WICH at ILST game on Feb. 14th. For the week of Feb. 9 - 15, this game ranked 19th on ESPN2. There were 73,000 viewers of the UNI at MSU game on Feb. 15th. This ranked 11th for the week on ESPNU.

For the season, there have been 4.1 million viewers of Wichita State's 13 nationally televised games which averages to 315K viewers per game.

Not too shabby...but I wonder what the average viewership was last year on our 35-0 run??? Anybody have those numbers???