THE ZAPPER
John Walters
April 12, 1999
How to explain why the Connecticut-Duke thriller on CBS got the lowest prime-time Nielsen rating (17.2) ever for an NCAA tournament final? Was it that regions other than the Atlantic Seaboard had scant rooting interest? A reaction to tepid earlier tournament games? Ally McBeals being shown concurrently on Fox? The decline of the broadcast networks? Or was it that the Nielsens don't count those watching in bars or in UConn's Gampel Pavilion? Or all of the above?
How to explain why the Connecticut-Duke thriller on CBS got the lowest prime-time Nielsen rating (17.2) ever for an NCAA tournament final? Was it that regions other than the Atlantic Seaboard had scant rooting interest? A reaction to tepid earlier tournament games? Ally McBeals being shown concurrently on Fox? The decline of the broadcast networks? Or was it that the Nielsens don't count those watching in bars or in UConn's Gampel Pavilion? Or all of the above?