2009 College World Series sets more television/media records - NCAA Basebal... - NCAA Baseball - Rivals.com 2009 College World Series sets more television/media records By Kendall Rogers The NCAA and fans of college baseball have even more reasons to be pleased with the sport's growth the past few seasons. The NCAA and ESPN released television figures for the '09 College World Series on Monday, and the figures present good news. Overall, ESPN averaged 1.45 million households and 1.928 million viewers. The entire CWS received a 1.5 rating. The figures for '09 was an increase of 33 percent over last season in households, 37 percent in viewers and 36 percent in television rating. In '08, 1.091 million households and 1.408 million viewers tuned in for the CWS for a rating of 1.1 Ratings also vastly improved for the CWS Finals between LSU and Texas. The CWS Finals reached an average 2.059 million households, 2.762 million viewers and had a 2.1 rating to become the highest rated CWS Finals ever. It was a marked increase over last year's figures of 1.664 million households, 2.193 million viewers and a 1.7 rating. That means percentage increases of 24 percent, 26 percent and 24 percent. Also worth noting, the three CWS Finals games were three of the top four highest rated CWS games in ESPN history. Game 3 between LSU and Texas was the most viewed game ever for the CWS and the second highest-rated game ever. Game 3 averaged 2.303 million households, 3.160 million viewers and had a 2.3 rating. Game 2 averaged 1.964 million households, 2.62 million viewers and had a 2.0 rating. Game 1 averaged 1.905 million households, 2.50 million viewers and had a 1.9 rating. ESPN2 showed a 6 percent increase for viewers and households during the CWS. As for internet media, our college baseball site here at Yahoo! Sports experienced a growth of approximately 40 percent in views from last season to this season.
i really wish espn and fox sports would show more college baseball during the regular season. right now espn is just cherry picking the cws and one or two supers. it would be great if fox sports would pick up all the regionals and supers. and then not pull that black out crap.
It surely didn't hurt to have two of the top five programs in the country playing for the title. We've had several teams make the CWS for the first time as well. As more schools focus on baseball the numbers should further increase. Hopefully this will lead to a few more college baseball games on national television. We show high school football but not college baseball. :dis:
ESPN U has been playing replays NON stop. i won't get tired of these games anytime soon... the only thing is just. how. clooossseeee. we came to losing. but, this team has grit. texas definitely stepped it up at the CWS, hats off to garrido.
no one really knows that because CPM would have started Anthony in game 2 not Ross. He started Austin because we won game one. Does texas jump on Anthony like they did Austin or does Byrd even get in to give up 3 no one really knows. If u were only talking bout game 1 yep came really close to losing.
