Comcast SportsNet’s Celtics-Hawks Game 1 telecast earned a 7.3 rating (175,000 households), the highest rated Celtics game on Comcast SportsNet since the 2002 Celtics-Pistons Round 2, Game 5 game earned a 10.1 (234,000 households).

Despite sharing the telecast with TNT, Celtics-Hawks Game 1 easily surpassed Comcast SportsNet’s ratings high for the past seven seasons which was a 5.7 (136,000 households) for the Celtics-Pistons on March 5, 2008. Combined the Celtics-Hawks Game 1 earned a 10.2 rating (244,000 households).

“It was an amazing sports weekend in Boston and fans chose to end it with the Celtics on Comcast SportsNet. This is a great start to the playoffs and the excitement can only build,” said Bill Bridgen, Comcast SportsNet executive vice president and general manager.

Published by Bruce Allen

Automattician.

One thought on “Celtics Bring in the Numbers for CSN”

  1. Yeah, but why no HD broadcast on CSN on DirecTV? They lost this viewer to TNT because of this. Dick Stockton et al with HD video was far more palatable than the CSN crew with SD video.

    Like

Comments are closed.