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This is somewhat related, but of course Houston sports fans have a good reason not to root for the Astros right now. The numbers quoted below from a Houston Chronicle article I read are simply incredible ...
Houston’s overtime win Sunday over the Titans recorded a 24.8 Nielsen rating on KHOU (Channel 11) with a 51 share and an average audience of 891,000 viewers. That means that an average audience of almost one-quarter of the 2,289,360 TV households in the 20-county Houston area, or about 567,761 households, watched the game, and 51 percent of TVs in use during the noon to 3:30 p.m. time frame were tuned to Channel 11.
That compares to 22.2/44 for the Week 1 home opener against the Dolphins last year and 22.5/45 for the Week 2 game at Jacksonville.
The audience topped out at 31.4/59 between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m.
At the other end of the spectrum in the most literal sense of the phrase, the Astros on Saturday had a record low audience for their game against the Angels on CSN Houston. The game had a 0.04 Nielsen rating, which represents an average audience of about 915 households or about 1,000 viewers on average. The previous low was 0.05 for an Astros-Reds game on Sept. 9, 2012, on Fox Sports Houston, the team’s former carrier.