There’s enough viewing interest to go around for Kansas City’s major professional sports teams.
According to Nielsen, the Royals earned a 14.0 rating for their Friday night game against the Los Angeles Angels on Fox Sports Kansas City, higher than the combined total of the city’s 10 other over-the-air stations in prime time that night (13.3).
On Saturday, the Chiefs’ preseason victory over the Arizona Cardinals, which started at 8 p.m., earned an approximate 16.2 rating on KCTV (Ch. 5). The Royals-Angels game, which started at 6:10 p.m., earned a 10.9 rating on Fox Sports 1, and when the Chiefs and Royals overlapped, the teams combined for a 53 share, meaning half of the Kansas City audience watching TV at the time were tuned into local sports.