The Tampa Bay Rays saw a huge jump in local television ratings in 2012. The 150 games broadcast on Sun Sports averaged a 4.9 rating, up 28% from 2011, when the local broadcasts averaged a 3.8 rating. A 4.9 rating translates to approximately 87,000 homes in the Tampa Bay market. [...]
Tom Jones of the Tampa Bay Times is back at it again. You know, the same columnist that wrote that the Tampa Bay Rays have the least supportive fans in baseball. This time he rips on the Rays calling them one of five professional sports franchises you wouldn’t want to [...]
According to Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times, the Tampa Bay Rays did a 5.4 television rating in April, up 71% from the same month last year. This is obviously a strong improvement over last season, when the Rays started horribly in April, and were never really in the [...]
Jordi Scrubbings is back
All the talking heads say the Rays have no fans and that we don’t deserve a team. But how do we know the talking heads aren’t crazy glue sniffers that sneak into your house, take money off the dresser and knock your daughter up? Because clearly, the talking heads never [...]
Monday’s local TV ratings for Sun Sports were big. Tuesday’s were bigger. Last night’s matchup with the Yankees drew a 10.1 rating (182,205 households). That is second only to the July 31 matchup against the Yankees that had a 10.7 rating (193,220 households). Also, Fox Sports Florida reports that the final hour of [...]
Rays fans continue to flock to Rays games in droves…at least on TV. Sun Sports today announced that last night’s matchup with the Yankees was the third highest rated Rays broadcast ever, drawing a 9.4 rating (169,925 househ0lds). That is just behind two of the games versus the Yankees during [...]
The following info on the weekend series against the Yankees comes from Sun Sports The 3-game series against the Yankees was the highest-rated regular season series in team history. The three games averaged a 9.9 rating (178,238 households). The previous record was for a series against the Red Sox 6/30-7/2, [...]
After the Rays last homestand, we saw that attendance is down 5.2% from last year at the same point. But don’t think for a moment that nobody cares about the Rays. TV ratings for the Rays are at an all-time high and are showing the Rays to be one of [...]
Stephen Nohlgren and Tom Jones took a closer look at the Rays different revenue streams. Most of the numbers in this piece are educated guesses, so there is no way of knowing how accurate the assessment is. But what is important, is that all the talk of the increased television [...]
