Yankees Beat Giants, "Sunday Night Football" In TV Ratings

NEW YORK — Sports fans in New York overwhelmingly chose to watch a decisive baseball playoff game over a regular-season football matchup Sunday night.

The Yankees' chance to clinch a World Series berth went up against the Giants' meeting with the Arizona Cardinals. Fox said Monday that its coverage of Game 6 of the AL championship series was watched by 26.4 percent of the market's homes with televisions and 40 percent of households with TVs in use at the time. The numbers for NBC's "Sunday Night Football" were 9.3 and 14.

Phillies fans were apparently scouting their next opponent: The figures were 20.6 and 31 in the Philadelphia market.

"Our ratings last night were spectacular," commissioner Bud Selig said Monday in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "To get a 26.4 in New York while the Giants got a 9.3 on 'Sunday Night Football' is stunning."

Nationally, the entire ALCS averaged a 6.5/12, up 35 percent from the 4.8/8 for the five-game Phillies-Dodgers NLCS on the network last year.

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AP Sports Writer Larry Lage contributed to this report.

Comments

[StarDagger]

The Yankees are not only the best team in the history of baseball, not only the best team in any sport, but the best Team in the History of Humanity!!!

The Center of the Universe is Home Plate at Yankee Stadium (this is why the economy went bad, it was moved!)

Listing NY Yankees Fan as your religion is now allowed on Federal forms!

[InsideBrooklyn]

NY Post Headline today: "The Frillies are coming to town." The Yanks will make Cream Cheese out of them. . . I just wish the games were on during the day!

[argentino]

that's quite all right, the giants will have their turn - when the chips are down, eli will see us through...

as for the yankees, the phillies are dangerous but, believe it or not, i'm picking the bronx bombers in 5!

[kevski]

Yanks in 6 baby,

[FHTB]

Like to see 1950 all over...total shut out of Phillies by NY...YES!

[HistoryBuff15]

Go Yankees

[ImissBush]

right on

[Merckx]

Slow news day?

[ImissBush]

U read it

go yanks!!

[StarDagger]

What the Yanks do effects the entire Universe.

[BryanTheRegOps]

P.S. Let Go Yankees!!!!!!

[BryanTheRegOps]

Too bad MLB have made a disaster of this year's playoff. Too many days off, and late scheduling is going to lead to November baseball. Bud Selig has been a disaster. He needs to go and be replaced by a competent commissioner, who's main purpose is whats best for baseball over the owners greed.

[argentino]

bud "nero" selig...