Stories with the tag "ratings"

This past Wednesday's episode of "The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir," which featured controversial cast member Junie Browning's quarterfinal fight with Roli Delgado, scored 1.7 million viewers, an increase of nine percent from the season's first five episodes.

With a 59 percent increase in ratings from its July installment of "Saturday Night Fights," EliteXC and CBS scored an overall 2.7 rating and drew 4.56 million viewers for this past weekend's "EliteXC: Heat" event.

Saturday's "EliteXC: Heat" broadcast, which aired on CBS live from the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., drew 4.3 million viewers, according to early ratings information available to CBS executives.

Spike TV issued a press release Friday afternoon to trumpet the ratings success of Wednesday's MMA lineup of two-hour live UFC Fight Night 15 telecast from Omaha, Nebraska as well as the season premiere for the eighth season of "The Ultimate Fighter.

According a report by television reporter Michael Pope in Friday's edition of the New York Post, CBS is re-thinking its current mixed martial arts programming plans. Pope writes that CBS was "shocked" by how poorly its July 26 edition of "Saturday Night Fights" performed in the ratings following a strong debut on May 31.

First things first. Kimbo Slice vs. Ken Shamrock is a marketable matchup. It's one that I'm sure will draw ratings. Shamrock has been around the game for a very long time, can hype a fight, and has name recognition from his time in the UFC, WWE, and his run on TUF 3. Kimbo is Kimbo.

Score one for the UFC in the head-to-head ratings race for younger male viewers between the UFC and EliteXC.

The numbers are in for EliteXC's second showing on national television and the ratings do no look to be good despite a very good overall show: That airing back on May 31, 2008 scored 4.3 million viewers and a 1.

The first mixed martial arts broadcast primetime on major network television was, in many ways, a resounding success. The EliteXC card on CBS on May 31 drew unprecedented media attention to the sport, and the ratings for the show increased in every 15-minute interval.

EliteXC is slated to return to CBS this Saturday at 9 p.m. ET. While drawing a strong rating in the dead of summer on a Saturday night is not easy, all indications are that the promotion will return to the Tiffany network in September or October, regardless of the ratings.

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Many factors are needed to determine the relative success or failure of an MMA event. The final review on Affliction's debut card will not be written until pay-per-view buys, live gate receipts and FSN ratings for the lead-in show are tabulated and released.

Sunday's "WEC: Faber vs. Pulver" broadcast set an MMA ratings record for the all-sports VERSUS channel.