Here's another of those baseball ratings posts I warned you about earlier this week:
YES' telecast of Tuesday's Blue Jays-Yankees tilt was the second highest-rated for a Yanks opener at least since 1995, the network announced.
The game drew 7.4 percent of New York-area homes (766,00 total viewers), behind only the 2005 opener against the Bosox that had a 11.6 rating and 1,213,000 viewers.
SNY's Mets-Marlins telecast had a solid 4.1 rating, meaning that on average 11.5 percent of households in Baseball Town were watching one local nine or the other play on the first night of April.
After going to Yankee Stadium Monday, jury duty Tuesday and the Garden Wednesday - on the heels of being off last week - I feel I have let WatchDog Nation down of late.
Let the word go forth from this time and place: I will not leave my basement, or my pajamas, until I catch up on my blogging backlog Thursday.
Comments (3)
I saw a report in "Crain's Business News" the Yankees have already sold 3.8 million tickets and the Mets have sold 2.8 million. The Yankees will definitely draw 4 million and the Mets are very confident they will.
As I speculated several weeks ago in a Watchdog story on increased ratings in a differenyt sport, how much of this is the writer's strike and how much is an increased interest in sports? The ancient Romans had bread and circus, we have beer and giant screen TVs.
Neil, I have a question. Why does ESPN use the HD highlights from YES (both for Yankees and Nets games) but never HD highlights from MSG, MSG+, or SNY?
All of the aforementioned channels produce games in HD, and the latter never get their HD highlights on ESPN.
Is it a money issue? Not enough room to capture the HD highlights? Something else?
I know you won't let me down!
I hate HD questions like this generally, but for you, John R, I will inquire.