EVERYTHING CAME UP ROSES FOR ESPN ON NEW YEAR’S DAY

ESPN’s coverage of the 2013 Rose Bowl Game averaged 17.02 million viewers on New Year’s Day, according to ratings released Wednesday by Nielsen Research. The telecast, which saw Stanford defeat Wisconsin 20-14, was down 3 percent from the 17.59 million who watched last year’s Rose Bowl contest, a percentage within Neilsen’s margin of error. During […]

ROSE BOWL COMES UP ROSES FOR ESPN

For the first time since 1947, when it was first televised, the Rose Bowl game was not carried on broadcast television this year, moving instead to cable sports network ESPN, where, according to preliminary Nielsen figures, it attracted 20.6 million viewers. While that number was down from the 24 million who watched the game on […]