Wednesday, August 29, 2001
Tiger tops the ratings
NEW YORK (AP) — The final hour of Tiger Woods' playoff victory
over Jim Furyk in the NEC Inviational on Sunday drew the second-highest
primetime audience of the week — and it took a congressional
scandal to top it.
The last portion of the Woods-Furyk telecast on CBS drew an 11.0
preliminary national rating and a 23 share — higher than
all primetime programs last week except for ABC's interview with
Rep. Garry Condit.
The entire telecast of Wood's third straight NEC Invitational
win drew a 7.0/17, up 49 percent from last year's 4.7/11 and the
highest rating this season for the final round of a PGA Tour event.
The golf telecast was carried on tape delay after tournament officials
started the final round early because of bad weather forecasts.
A rating measures the percentage of TV sets tuned to a particular
program, with each point equalling 1.02 million homes. The share
measure the percentage of sets in use turned to a particualr program.
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