ABC’s TV ratings for Dover Cup race

UPDATE #2 Saturday's Dover Nationwide race was up slightly from last year, with a 1.2, compared to 2008's 1.1 rating. That makes Dover the fifth consecutive Nationwide race on ESPN2 to be up from last year.

Speed's Truck race in Las Vegas last weekend was also up, averaging a 0.46 rating (that's 340,000 households), compared to last year's 0.39 rating (285,000 households). That makes two weeks in a row that NASCAR's Trucks have increased ratings. The series is averaging a 0.8 rating this season overall.

10/01/09 ABC's live telecast of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AAA 400 race at Dover International Speedway earned a final national household rating of 3.1, down from the 3.3 rating for last year's race that also aired on ABC. The telecast averaged 5,084,257 viewers. ESPN2's live telecast of Saturday's NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Dover earned a final national household coverage rating of 1.2, up from the 1.1 rating earned for last year's race. It was the fifth consecutive Nationwide Series race on ESPN2 to be up from last year's race or corresponding weekend. The Dover telecast averaged 1,459,145 viewers.(ESPN), for overnight ratings.

09/28/09 ABC’s broadcast of Sunday’s AAA 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover International Speedway earned a 2.7 overnight rating from Nielsen Media Research, Street and Smith’s SportsBusiness Daily reports.

The rating from the nation’s largest television markets is 6.9 percent lower than the 2.9 ABC earned overnight for the race in 2008 but 8 percent higher than the 2.5 ABC earned overnight for the previous week’s opener of the Chase For The Sprint Cup at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.