Author: KEVIN KLEPS

The Indians’ season opener at Houston drew a 5.7 rating on SportsTime Ohio on Monday night. A total of about 85,000 households tuned in, and STO’s rating was 58% better than the local viewership for ESPN’s broadcast of the game.

The SportsTime Ohio rating is more impressive when you consider that the audience was somewhat divided by ESPN televising the Tribe game, and the fact that the Duke-Wisconsin national championship contest started during the latter stages of the Tribe opener. Nationally, the Duke-Wisconsin matchup posted the largest national championship rating in 18 years, and it fared pretty well locally, too.