Posted on 10/30/2017 9:04:18 AM PDT by Kazan
There was a lot of All Out War action on the second episode The Walking Dead’s eighth season last night but the real life drama was on a tight Sunday Night Football and the roller coaster of a Game 5 in the 2017 World Series. A drama that saw the MLB Game 5 top the NFL for the second year in a row and SNF hit a season low.
Just like they were back in 2016, the two games were up against each other with the Pittsburgh Steelers beating the Detroit Lions 20-15 last night and the Houston Astros taking a 3-2 lead in the series with a late night 13-12 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. A baseball result that sees the Texas team heading back to LA for Game 6 on Halloween. A potentially spooky game that will also see the Astros one win away from their very first World Series championship in what has already been a home run record breaker.
In a big night for baseball, SNF snagged a 9.4/15 in metered market results while the epic 5 hour and 17 minute long World Series Game 5 nailed a 12.8/24 in the early ratings. Due to bad weather in New England, Nielsen omitted Boston, Providence and Hartford from the MM 56 market round up.
Still, in the World Series’ best result this year so far, that puts the Game 5 up a muscular 36% from last night’s Steelers vs. Lions game.
With that, as the league and broadcasters have been losing ratings traction and snared in political controversy this season, last night’s Week 8 NFL game is down a hard 25% for SNF from last week’s gridiron battle. That Super Bowl LI re-match saw the New England Patriots blowout the Atlanta Falcons 23-7.
Year-to-year, Sunday’s Steelers’ win fell 17% from the comparable October 30, 2016 face-off when the big draw Dallas Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 29-23.
Up against last year’s SNF beating Chicago Cubs 2-3 win over the Cleveland Indians Game 5 of October 30, 2016, last night’s Game 5 saw a decline of 16% in MM ratings. However, as the second best Game 5 MM result in 14 years, compared to the Game 5 of the 2015 and 2014 World Series, last night was up 9% and 56% respectively. Night to night, Game 5 of the 2017 World Series was up a strong 20% from the Dodgers’ winning Game 4, which was on a far less competitive Saturday night and topped comparable 2016 results.
The real glory might be in how Dodgers fever has truly overtaken the town. Locally, last night’s Game 5 scored a 38.2/52 in the L.A. market. That’s the best any baseball broadcast has done in the market since the 42.0/16 of Game 7 of the 2002 World Series, which saw the Anaheim Angels win their first MLB championship.
In the end, last year’s World Series Game 5 scored 23.6 million viewers and a 6.7/19 rating among adults 18-49. That October 30, 2016 result was the best any Game 5 has done in total sets of eyeballs since 1997. Beaten by MLB, the SNF of that night last year delivered a 6.5/19 key demo rating and an audience of 18.02 million.
Choke on it NFL. You have earned what you are getting.
And this wasn’t Jacksonville vs Arizona, the Steelers should be a huge ratings draw.
They can't look up and see empty stadiums
Well I know my eyes were on the Astros last night. The Texans were playing too but I don’t give a rats azz about them anymore. Football is dead to me until management gets real and gets rid of those who choose to act like idiots.....kneeling during one of our oldest traditions. FIRE THEM AND BUST THE UNION!!! Screw them all!!
Maybe Jesse Jackson can buy a few Mickey Ds for the thugs to work at after they get laid off.
Aw, doesn’t the World Series always outdraw Sunday Night Football?
Not always, I remember just a few years ago WS ratings were in the toilet.
No from 2010 to 2015, the ratings were lower for the World Series in head-to-head matchups with NFL games.
It used to be you could watch SNF at the NBC website for a whopping total of 45 minutes.
Lastnight, I noticed they had changed that to just 5 minutes!!
Bunch of cheapskates!!!
I own an Astros website (not the official site) and last night we blew a fuse at the webhosting service. We crossed some metric for transactions that caused them to shut down further transactions (not page views).
It may be the same tomorrow night for Game 6.
Simply cannot watch any game where highly paid heathens disrespect our great country and our servicemen.
Not even a potential series-winning game 5? But then how often does a potential series-winning game get played on a Sunday.
Kneelers - Lions.... meh. But that World Series game was one for the ages! Don’t know which team is going to win this thing but it has been some great baseball so far.
Big market teams help World Series ratings. That's why the last two World Series ratings have been way up. That being said, the ratings for the NFL game last night were down 17% from last year's game that went up against the Cubs-Indians World Series.
I went to the game last night... it really was amazing... before the game we were sitting on a patio at a bar by the stadium and we saw Tommy La Sorta drive up to the stadium and then 10 minutes later, we saw George Bush drive up and then 5 minutes after that we saw Bagwell coming to the game... not usually star struck but it was a great game and neat to see so many famous people in one place.
That’s why I preferred the games in Houston, in LA, they fawn over “celebs” like Justin Timberlake and other Hollywood types. Feh.
Also, that game last night was something else.
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