It's hockey season, people!
It's amazing what the eliminations of the Yankees and Mets can do in October for that other sport that plays during the week this month.
Versus reported that its telecast of the Rangers-Islanders game Wednesday night attracted 1.8 percent of households in New York, making it the highest-rated cable network in the market that night.
A Rangers-Isles game last season got a rating of only 0.7 in New York. The previous best rating for a regular-season Versus game in New York was an 0.9 for Rangers-Pens in March.
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Too bad I still don't get VS. Damn that digital cable box.
...and the broadcast that night was horrible; especially the announcing.
If their lead broadcaster is Doc Emrick, who was certainly available that night as the Devils played Monday afternoon and were not scheduled till Thursday,why was the second rate announcer who I think does Washington Capital games used on this telecast? I could understand, perhaps, holding back Emrick on any telecast involving the Devils (although he is clearly not a homer) but on an Islanders-Rangers game? Makes no sense to me.
The reasoning behind it was the Emrick was in Ontario calling Devs-Sens on Monday, and it was easier to stay in Ontario to call Leafs-Canes on VERSUS Tuesday.
That said, Beninati was awful.
Neil, any idea what the national rating of the game was?
No, but I can ask.
My guess: very low.
You mean on the way to Florida to do the Devils on Thursday, Emrick could not pop into Uniondale to do Rags-Isles?
The point is, he'd already called the game on Tuesday, he probably didn't wanna do 4 games in 4 nights.