[telecom] Astros draw 0.0 Nielsen TV rating in Houston market during loss to Indians

Astros draw 0.0 Nielsen TV rating in Houston market during loss to Indians

What if they played a ballgame and nobody watched? Apparently, we have an answer with regards to Sunday's Indians-Astros contest in Cleveland, at least according to the Nielsen Co. ratings system, and it's this: The Astros have discovered new ways to lose. Not only can they drop a game to the team they're playing, but they can draw less local interest than a static football scoreboard or a rerun of The Cosby Show.

According to the Houston Chronicle's David Barron, Sunday's game, which started at noon Central Time (1 p.m. Eastern Time in Cleveland) and was broadcast on Comcast SportsNet Houston, received a 0.00 Nielsen rating - a sampling of a small percentage of the TV-watching population. Sunday's rating came via 581 meters in the Greater Houston area, around half of which were in use by viewers for any

15-minute period during the three-hour bloc between noon and 3 p.m. Meanwhile, 23 percent of households were busy watching the NFL's Houston Texans lose to the Baltimore Ravens, 1.3 percent were watching a NASCAR race, 0.5 percent were watching a Cosby rerun and 0.16 percent were watching the NFL Network's screen of football scores.

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New low for Astros: 0.0 TV rating

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Monty Solomon
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And the margin of sampling error for n = 581 is...?

(Not that I expect a sports reporter to even know what that means.)

If I recall correctly, it should be somewhere around 4.5%. So what this really says is that there is a 95% probability that fewer than

4.5% of Houston-area television households were watching the game. But that's not nearly as exciting a claim.

-GAWollman

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Garrett Wollman

| Comcast cites 'total gridlock' at CSN Houston in bankruptcy filing

| By Steve Donohue, FierceCable, September 30, 2013

| Comcast's NBCUniversal subsidiary filed an involuntary bankruptcy | petition on Friday aimed at letting it take full ownership of | Comcast SportsNet Houston, the regional sports network controlled by | the Houston Astros.

| AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV, and Dish Network have refused to carry CSN | Houston since it launched in October 2012. That has made it | difficult to pay its bills, including rights fees owed to the Astros | and the Houston Rockets NBA franchise. The Astros criticized Comcast | for the filing. It accused the MSO of preventing the team from | terminating its contract with CSN Houston--a move which would allow | it to sell rights to its baseball games to another network. The team | also confirmed that it hasn't received payments from CSN Houston for | three months.

Part of CSN's problem is that AT&T, Verizon, DirecTV and Dish Network don't carry it. Comcast has filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition aimed at letting it take full ownership of CSN.

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Neal McLain

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Neal McLain

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