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Local viewers tune in to UT-LSU over MNF
Midstate picks Vols by better than 2-to-1
By MIKE ORGAN
Staff Writer
The NFL didn't put up much of a fight in the local TV ratings this week against the rescheduled Tennessee-LSU game on ESPN2.
The Vols' dramatic overtime victory, which kicked off at 6:30 p.m., received a 17.7 local Nielsen rating, meaning it reached 162,167 households.
ABC's Monday Night Football game between Denver and Kansas City, which started at 8 p.m. on WKRN-2, earned only a 7.8 rating (71,437 households). That's the lowest local rating for a Monday Night Football game in at least eight years.
National ratings for UT-LSU averaged a 3.1, meaning it was seen by 2.8 million households ESPN2's highest-rated and mostviewed college football game in its 12-year history.
[The college game was ESPN2's second highest-rated and most-viewed program ever behind the Oct. 4, 2003 baseball playoff game between Oakland and Boston.Nationally Monday Night Football was below average at 9.7/15 in overnight ratings from 8-11:15 p.m.
It didn't help that the game was a dud with Denver running away early on the way to a 30-10 victory.
Last week's Cowboys-Redskins game on WKRN earned a 10.3 and the Giants-Saints game on ESPN the same night earned a 10.2.
It also marked the second week the Vols made a big splash against the NFL locally. Last week the UT-Florida game (Sept. 17) on WTFV-5 was the most watched local sports event with a 26.2 rating, which beat the Titans-Ravens (Sept. 18) also on WTVF, which earned a 23.9.
Timely news: WKRN-2 may have been strapped with a bad Monday Night Football game, but benefited with it ending not long after the UT-LSU game. That pushed WKRN's newscast to 11:15 p.m., allowing it to lead with the UT win. WKRN devoted more than five minutes to the game before moving on to other top stories.
Jumping the gun: WZTV-17's newscast gave up on the Vols prematurely. On its 9 p.m. telecast, with the game still in progress, anchors stated quite matter-of-factly UT was "0-2 in the SEC.''
Reporters also went to Demonbreun Street and interviewed fans late in the third quarter about the disappointment of losing to LSU.
Redneck coach: Skip Bayless was extremely upset with UT Coach Philip Fulmer on Tuesday morning's Cold Pizza on ESPN2 because of Fulmer's postgame remarks about the performance of quarterback Rick Clausen.
Fulmer told ESPN2 "there might not be a better story in America than Rick Clausen.''
Clausen, who transferred from LSU, replaced Erik Ainge and fueled the Vols' comeback.
Bayless, a Vanderbilt graduate, said Fulmer's remarks were callous considering the plight of the many fans in Baton Rouge, La., who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Said Woody Paige, Bayless' ESPN2 counterpart and a UT graduate: "If you think I'm going to take up for Fulmer you're wrong.
"I was in school with him. He's dumb, he's a redneck he's a good old boy from Tennessee.'' Dumping on Davie: Among the many things ESPN2 analyst and former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie botched during the UT-LSU broadcast was the pronunciation of Clausen's name. He repeatedly called him "Clowson.''
Gottfried at church: ESPN2 college football analyst Mike Gottfried, in town Oct. 8 to broadcast the Vanderbilt-LSU game, will speak the following night at Brentwood United Methodist Church. Gottfried will deliver his message of hope for America's family at the church at 7 p.m. and the public is invited free of charge.
Predators preview: A Fox Sports Net feature on the Predators will air three times next week Monday at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., and Wednesday at 6 p.m. before the season opener against San Jose at 7 p.m.
Weber to WNSR: Predators play-by-play man Pete Weber has reached an agreement to work for WNSR-AM 560. Weber and the station's management are still hashing out his role.
Ratings boost: WUXP-30 is expecting a nice ratings bump tomorrow by carrying the
UT-Ole Miss game at 11:30 a.m. and Vanderbilt-MTSU at 6 p.m. The station vowed last spring to provide more local sports coverage.
"What is so big for us is one of the things we claim we are is the home for local sports, we try to do more local production of sports than anyone else,'' said general sales manager DeJuan Buford. "It's almost like a Super Bowl weekend for us as far as the number of people that will be watching our station.''
Busy man: Some have said the media is not paying enough attention to the MTSU-Vanderbilt game. MTSU Coach Andy McCollum is not one of them. He began his day yesterday at 5:30 a.m. as a guest on WZTV-17's Tennessee Mornings, was on WGFX-FM 104.5's Wake -Up Zone at 8 a.m., and after practice taped his weekly coaches show.
Local viewers tune in to UT-LSU over MNF
Midstate picks Vols by better than 2-to-1
By MIKE ORGAN
Staff Writer
The NFL didn't put up much of a fight in the local TV ratings this week against the rescheduled Tennessee-LSU game on ESPN2.
The Vols' dramatic overtime victory, which kicked off at 6:30 p.m., received a 17.7 local Nielsen rating, meaning it reached 162,167 households.
ABC's Monday Night Football game between Denver and Kansas City, which started at 8 p.m. on WKRN-2, earned only a 7.8 rating (71,437 households). That's the lowest local rating for a Monday Night Football game in at least eight years.
National ratings for UT-LSU averaged a 3.1, meaning it was seen by 2.8 million households ESPN2's highest-rated and mostviewed college football game in its 12-year history.
[The college game was ESPN2's second highest-rated and most-viewed program ever behind the Oct. 4, 2003 baseball playoff game between Oakland and Boston.Nationally Monday Night Football was below average at 9.7/15 in overnight ratings from 8-11:15 p.m.
It didn't help that the game was a dud with Denver running away early on the way to a 30-10 victory.
Last week's Cowboys-Redskins game on WKRN earned a 10.3 and the Giants-Saints game on ESPN the same night earned a 10.2.
It also marked the second week the Vols made a big splash against the NFL locally. Last week the UT-Florida game (Sept. 17) on WTFV-5 was the most watched local sports event with a 26.2 rating, which beat the Titans-Ravens (Sept. 18) also on WTVF, which earned a 23.9.
Timely news: WKRN-2 may have been strapped with a bad Monday Night Football game, but benefited with it ending not long after the UT-LSU game. That pushed WKRN's newscast to 11:15 p.m., allowing it to lead with the UT win. WKRN devoted more than five minutes to the game before moving on to other top stories.
Jumping the gun: WZTV-17's newscast gave up on the Vols prematurely. On its 9 p.m. telecast, with the game still in progress, anchors stated quite matter-of-factly UT was "0-2 in the SEC.''
Reporters also went to Demonbreun Street and interviewed fans late in the third quarter about the disappointment of losing to LSU.
Redneck coach: Skip Bayless was extremely upset with UT Coach Philip Fulmer on Tuesday morning's Cold Pizza on ESPN2 because of Fulmer's postgame remarks about the performance of quarterback Rick Clausen.
Fulmer told ESPN2 "there might not be a better story in America than Rick Clausen.''
Clausen, who transferred from LSU, replaced Erik Ainge and fueled the Vols' comeback.
Bayless, a Vanderbilt graduate, said Fulmer's remarks were callous considering the plight of the many fans in Baton Rouge, La., who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Said Woody Paige, Bayless' ESPN2 counterpart and a UT graduate: "If you think I'm going to take up for Fulmer you're wrong.
"I was in school with him. He's dumb, he's a redneck he's a good old boy from Tennessee.'' Dumping on Davie: Among the many things ESPN2 analyst and former Notre Dame coach Bob Davie botched during the UT-LSU broadcast was the pronunciation of Clausen's name. He repeatedly called him "Clowson.''
Gottfried at church: ESPN2 college football analyst Mike Gottfried, in town Oct. 8 to broadcast the Vanderbilt-LSU game, will speak the following night at Brentwood United Methodist Church. Gottfried will deliver his message of hope for America's family at the church at 7 p.m. and the public is invited free of charge.
Predators preview: A Fox Sports Net feature on the Predators will air three times next week Monday at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday at 9:30 p.m., and Wednesday at 6 p.m. before the season opener against San Jose at 7 p.m.
Weber to WNSR: Predators play-by-play man Pete Weber has reached an agreement to work for WNSR-AM 560. Weber and the station's management are still hashing out his role.
Ratings boost: WUXP-30 is expecting a nice ratings bump tomorrow by carrying the
UT-Ole Miss game at 11:30 a.m. and Vanderbilt-MTSU at 6 p.m. The station vowed last spring to provide more local sports coverage.
"What is so big for us is one of the things we claim we are is the home for local sports, we try to do more local production of sports than anyone else,'' said general sales manager DeJuan Buford. "It's almost like a Super Bowl weekend for us as far as the number of people that will be watching our station.''
Busy man: Some have said the media is not paying enough attention to the MTSU-Vanderbilt game. MTSU Coach Andy McCollum is not one of them. He began his day yesterday at 5:30 a.m. as a guest on WZTV-17's Tennessee Mornings, was on WGFX-FM 104.5's Wake -Up Zone at 8 a.m., and after practice taped his weekly coaches show.
