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Record ratings for UConn/Stanford
Thursday night's UConn/Stanford game was the highest rated women's basketball contest shown on the ESPN networks. Here is the release from ESPN:
ESPN2’s telecast of Stanford’s win over Connecticut was the highest-rated, women’s basketball rating ever for a regular-season game on the ESPN networks. The game, in which Stanford snapped Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak, posted a 1.5 metered market overnight rating, according to Nielsen. This surpasses the previous high of Connecticut/Duke from Feb. 1, 2003 (1.4). The last 15 minutes of the telecast earned a 3.1 rating.
Top rated markets for UConn-Stanford include Hartford, Knoxville, Columbus, Memphis, Raleigh/Durham, Greenville and San Francisco.
ESPN Classic will present the game as an “Instant Classic” today at 2 p.m.
ESPN2’s telecast of Stanford’s win over Connecticut was the highest-rated, women’s basketball rating ever for a regular-season game on the ESPN networks. The game, in which Stanford snapped Connecticut’s record 90-game winning streak, posted a 1.5 metered market overnight rating, according to Nielsen. This surpasses the previous high of Connecticut/Duke from Feb. 1, 2003 (1.4). The last 15 minutes of the telecast earned a 3.1 rating.
Top rated markets for UConn-Stanford include Hartford, Knoxville, Columbus, Memphis, Raleigh/Durham, Greenville and San Francisco.
ESPN Classic will present the game as an “Instant Classic” today at 2 p.m.
posted by Jim Fuller at
12:23 PM
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The rating spike in the last 15 minutes was due to all the WCBB Haters and UConn Haters tuning in to watch the Huskies 90 game win streak officially End. In reality, it ended with Stanford's opening 3PT.
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