Were Those High Ratings for Game 3 on NBC, or Low?

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Through the Television Glass...
Published 5/30/2008 at PuckUpdate
... While NBC's game three ratings were relatively good, they weren't super good. I don't think NBC is going to start showing summer hockey (although, ironically, NBC will be showing SUMMER HOCKEY, a David Schwimmer vehicle where he plays a former NHL player who finds a hockey coaching job in Cambodia in August). The NHL playoff ratings in Detroit have been beating the NBA, though. I don't quite understand TV ratings, but I think a third of Detroit was watching either the NBA or the NHL Wednesday night. ...

Ratings Matter
Published 5/30/2008 by Paul at KK Hockey
from Jeff Z. Klein of Slap Shot at the NY Times, Why all this attention on American TV ratings? For better or worse, it translates into how much money a major league makes. And that, in turn, determines so much else. Consider the NHL. If U.S. TV ratings had been higher, we would never have seen shootouts. We would probably still have the clutch-and-grab hockey of the ’90s. There might be fewer teams in the Sun Belt (or perhaps more — haven’t figured that one out yet). And so on. So however distasteful the concern with TV ...

A little bit of everything
Published 5/31/2008 by George James Malik at Red Wings Snapshots - MLive.com
... about his potential to win a Stanley Cup as a European captain. New York Times : The New York Times' Slap Shot blog attempts to make sense of the Game 3 ratings, ...