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Down to 2.7 XFL ratings drop less significant from previous week
NEW YORK (AP) -- The XFL's TV ratings declined for the fourth consecutive week, although less dramatically than the free-fall the new league had experienced since it began play last month. NBC, which co-owns the league with the World Wrestling Federation, got a 2.7 overnight rating and a 5 share for Saturday night's telecast of the game between the Los Angeles Xtreme and the New York/New Jersey Hitmen. A week earlier, when the Hitmen played Chicago, the game drew a 2.9 overnight and a 5 share. That was a drop of 24 percent in the ratings from the previous week. Overnight ratings are based on 49 major markets. Full national ratings are not yet available. The league debuted last month with an overnight rating of 10.3, then dropped to 5.1, 3.8 and 2.9 in the succeeding weeks. The rating is the percentage of TV households in the United States watching a broadcast, and the share is the percentage tuned to a telecast among those TV households with sets in use at the time. The game Feb. 24 between New York/New Jersey and Chicago had the second-lowest audience ever for a prime-time sports program, drawing a 2.6 national rating and a 5 share. That was down from the previous week's 3.1 rating and 6 share. The lowest-rated sports prime-time program was Game 3 of the 2000 Stanley Cup finals on ABC, which had a 2.3 national rating and a 5 share.
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