This is a special edition of my old Sports on the Air column:
The U.S. women’s soccer team’s 3-0 victory over Vietnam on Friday night led by Sophia Smith in the opening group stage game of the World Cup had a 3.5 rating on WUTV, the local Fox affiliate.
If any present day UB students aspire to have a Hollywood career, they should get plenty of encouragement just by reading Lieberman’s Buffalo-to-Hollywood success story.
A rating point in Buffalo is equal to 6,375 households, so the local rating represents about 22,312 households here.
That doesn’t sound that great, but the Fox telecast won the night, and Friday nights are typically one of the lowest-rated nights of the week.
The rating also was more than 30% higher than the 2.6 rating here for the National League’s 3-2 victory over the American League in baseball’s major league All-Star game played two weeks ago.
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