Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:23 pm EDT
The Phillies-Brewers NLDS game is currently airing head-to-head with the Falcons-Packers tilt, a conflict that gives rise to a great question: Which game are the Cheeseheads with no remotes or motivation to drag two TVs into the same room watching today?
If last Sunday is any indication — a day when the Bucs-Packers ran up against the Brewers regular season finale — it won't be close.
From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:
The Green Bay Packers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers game Sunday on WITI-TV (Channel 6) had a rating of 32.3 or 287,793 households. A total of 57% of the sets on at the time were tuned to that game.
Opposite the Packers telecast was the Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee Brewers last regular-season game, which the Brewers won, and coupled with a loss by the New York Mets, allowed the Brewers to advance to the playoffs as a wild card team.
The rating for the Brewers-Cubs game was 13.2 or 117,612 households with a 22% of the sets on at the time tune to it. The game aired on FSN Wisconsin, a cable channel available to about 80% of all television households in the Milwaukee market.
True story: I just had lunch before the game in the Brewers pressbox dining room and the Packers-Falcons game was on the television above my table. A Japanese baseball writer asked one of the dining room workers to change it to the start of the Brewers-Phillies game, but was immediately made to regret even asking. "Honey," she was told. "This is Wisconsin. Those are the Packers. We're not changing it. You can move to another television." Without a word, the writer quickly moved her things.
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