Just received this from Versus. The network says Tuesday’s Pittsburgh-Philadelphia game which turned out to be an overtime thriller, was the most watched NHL regular season game in its history. An average of three quarter of a million viewers watched. It tops a game between the same two tames during the NHL season opener.
We have the two paragraph release from Versus.
VERSUS NETS BEST REGULAR-SEASON NHL GAME IN NETWORK HISTORY With Tuesday’s Pittsburgh/Philadelphia telecast
Atlantic Division Contest was Most-Watched Regular Season Game on Cable Since 2003NEW YORK, N.Y. (December 16, 2010)— VERSUS averaged 750,000 viewers for the Pittsburgh Penguins/Philadelphia Flyers telecast on Tuesday, December 14, making it the most-watched regular-season game in network history and surpassing the previous high set by the same two teams in this year’s season-opener on October 7, 2010 (730,000 viewers). The telecast, which peaked at nearly one million viewers between 9:15-9:30 p.m. ET, was the most-watched NHL regular-season game on cable since December 2003.Locally, VERSUS was the #1 rated cable network in both the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia markets on Tuesday night. Both markets saw drastic increases over their 2009-10 regular-season averages with Pittsburgh receiving a 11.2 HH rating (up 50%) and Philadelphia delivering a 3.5 HH rating (up 42%). The game was also the highest rated regular-season game ever on VERSUS in the Philadelphia market, beating the previous record set by the New Jersey/Philadelphia game on March 23, 2009.
I’ll have more stuff coming up.
