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Flyers ratings double Phils+76ers

POSTED: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 2:26 PM

NEWARK, N.J. -- After dispatching the Pittsburgh Penguins in Round 1, the Flyers have captured the city of Philadelphia. Or, at least that's what the ratings say.

We’ve already noted that the NBC ratings for Game 1 against New Jersey on Sunday were up 121 percent from last year’s Game 1 against Boston.

But the numbers from Game 2 were truly staggering for hockey in Philadelphia.

According to the overnight ratings, the Flyers’ Game 2 loss on NBC Sports Network on Tuesday night nearly doubled the combined local viewership of both the Sixers’ playoff win in Chicago and the Phillies’ game in Atlanta.

Here are the numbers, as provided by the NHL:

Flyers on NBC Sports Network (7:30p-10:15p) - 12.4 rating, 19 share, 372,000 households and 607,000 viewers

Sixers on TNT (8:15-10:45p) - 2.2 rating, 3 share, 67,000 households, 95,000 viewers
Sixers on CSN-PH (8:00p-10:30p) - 1.6 rating, 2 share, 49,000 households, 56,000 viewers
Sixers on combined TNT/CSN-PH - 116,000 gross households and 151,000 gross viewers

Phillies on TCN (7:00p-10:00p) - 4.8 rating, 8 share, 145,000 households and 194,000 viewers

Sixers (combined TNT/CSN-PH) and Phillies (on TCN) combined ratings: 261,000 households, 345,000 viewers.

Nationally, Game 2 drew 1.29 million viewers - still a relatively small number among major four sports - and it was the third most-watched game nationally on cable in the playoffs. Here is the list, courtesy of Puck the Media: (The Flyers were involved in four of them)

Top 10 Most-watched Games of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Cable
1. Washington vs. NY Rangers, Game 2 (4/30/12, NBCSN): 1.53 million
2. Washington vs. Boston, Game 7 (4/25/12, NBCSN): 1.32 million
3. New Jersey vs. Philadelphia, Game 2 (5/1/12, NBCSN): 1.29 million
4. Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh, Game 5 (4/20/12, NBCSN): 1.07 million
5. Pittsburgh vs. Philadelphia, Game 4 (4/18/12, NBCSN): 1.03 million
6. Ottawa vs. NY Rangers, Game 7 (4/26/12, NBCSN): 984,000
7. New Jersey vs. Florida, Game 7 (4/26/12, NBCSN): 867,000
8. NY Rangers vs. Ottawa, Game 6 (4/23/12, NBCSN): 861,000
9. Philadelphia vs. Pittsburgh, Game 1 (4/11/12, NBCSN): 847,000
10. Los Angeles vs. Vancouver, Game 5 (4/22/12, NBCSN): 817,000

The puck drops on Game 3 at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night in Newark on the NBC Sports Network.

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:40 PM, 05/03/2012

Watched the Flyers game at Chickie's & Pete's in Bordentown. The Sixers game was nowhere to be found on any of the televisions.

— SweetsErik

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:55 PM, 05/03/2012

Flyers = LEGIT Stanley Cup contenders. Sixers = Flash in the pan benificiaries of Chicago losing its best player & destined to crash out of playoffs in Rd 1 or 2.

Any question as to why the Flyers are much more beloved/watched??

— thomaspfoolery

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:03 PM, 05/03/2012

Flyers are in the playoffs. Phils are still early in the season. And who cares about the Sixers.

— palmyra21

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:04 PM, 05/03/2012

Tom Foolery, the Sixers have a chance of getting through the first two rounds and then losing to Miami.

— aNutter1inDgutter

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:13 PM, 05/03/2012

I was one of the few who had on the Sixers the entire time.

— MattPSU

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:47 PM, 05/03/2012

I forgot the Sixers were playing until after the Flyers lost.

— TongueWagger

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:22 PM, 05/03/2012

the flyers are stanley cup contenders? is that why they make the playoffs every single year and have failed to deliver a cup for 40 years now? LOL

— AlexSp

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:24 PM, 05/03/2012

Flyers have a shot every year and so do the Phils, the other team is stuck in denial and purgatory.

— Bob Sacamano

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:02 PM, 05/03/2012

Is anyone really surprised by this? Does anyone really care about the NBA is this town, except the local radio show hosts that swear the 76ers are more popular than the Flyers. Never let facts get in the way of your personal preference! The local sports talk guys are so inept at talking hockey, especially Missinelli....very sad.

— Tar Heel 1