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WNBA Finals Ratings: Games 2 & 3 Up After "Stumbling Out Of The Gate"
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WNBA Finals Ratings: Games 2 & 3 Up After "Stumbling Out Of The Gate"
Sports Media Watch (linked above) reported that, "Sunday's Dream/Storm Game 1 drew a 0.33 final rating and 450,000 viewers on ABC...marks the lowest rating ever for a WNBA Finals game on broadcast television."
But Games 2 & 3 were better, according to WNBA communications:
- Games 2 and 3 were on ESPN2 (Game 1 was on ABC) and averaged 422,000 households, up 15 percent from Games 2 and 3 on ESPN2 last year (Indiana vs. Phoenix) and up 79 percent from those two contests on ESPN2 in 2008 (Detroit vs. San Antonio)
- The game earned a 3.8 overnight rating in the Seattle market, the highest local WNBA rating on ESPN or ESPN2 for any market since a 4.0 in Hartford on September 15, 2005.
- All the key male demographic groups showed impressive double-digit growth, led by M18-34 (+90 percent).
For perspective of what happened on Sunday, NFL's Week 1 was the most viewed since 1987, according to Sports Media Watch. There's nothing that can really compete with that.
With the league starting later again next year - June 4, 2011 - this challenge might be avoided in the future.
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