This Week & Last Week In Golf Channel Ratings: Masters, Arnie
/Son of the Bronx posts last week's Masters ratings for Golf Channel and while the network was down from a year ago (186,000k average prime time viewers vs. 250,000), the numbers for the Live From The Masters coverage look pretty impressive by cable sports studio show standards, especially when the big draw in question is on another network and there is no CBS promotion of GC's all-day coverage.
Check out the other network ratings on the same link and you'll see what I mean.
The Saturday Live From coverage airing at 9:30 am until the Masters start on CBS at 3 pm averaged 585,000 viewers. Sunday's similar Live From coverage averaged 556,000 viewers. Those were the network's top two shows, followed by Sunday night's first airing of Arnie, whic drew a 0.3 and averaged 471,000 viewer. That's with Live From lead-in of 331,000 average viewers.
As for Arnie's other two airings, not included in last week's ratings, Golf Channel says "1.75 million unique viewers tuned into all or part of Arnie." And: "each installment of Arnie was Golf Channel’s most-watched program of the day and each bested its previous year’s timeslot by no less than 100 percent and up to 295 percent."
