NASCAR New Hampshire TV rating

UPDATE #2 CORRECTION: Last Sunday's Nextel Cup race at New Hampshire received a final 3.3 national TV rating on ABC, according to Nielsen Media Research. The rating was down 11 percent from a 3.7 rating received on TNT last season. According to unofficial statistics, this year's rating ranks among the lowest for a Chase race since the format's inception in the 2004 season.

The top-rated sports events the last two weeks, not surprisingly, were NBC’s Sunday night NFL games: an 11.6 rating (13 million viewers) Sept. 9 and a 9.8 rating (11.1 million) Sept. 16. Any hope of NASCAR someday being on par with the NFL now appears to be a distant dream.

09/17/07 The final national rating on ABC was a 3.3, up from a 3.0 last year on cable but down from a 4.2 in 2005.

09/17/07 The overnight TV rating for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Sylvania 300 on ABC was a 2.8, down from last year's 3.0 on cable TNT and a 4.2 the previous year, also on cable TNT.