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12-30-2008, 03:50 PM
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081230/SPORTS04/812300349/1032/sportsfront :signnd:
Approximately 3 million households saw Notre Dame blow out the University of Hawai'i, 49-21, in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl on Christmas Eve, record viewership for the seven-year-old game.
The bowl's owner, ESPN Regional Television, operates six bowl games and the Hawai'i Bowl viewership was the highest in the history of those bowls, according to David A. K. Matlin, executive director of the Hawai'i Bowl.
The game, thanks to the first appearance by storied Notre Dame, did a 3.03 rating live and, combined with the replay, a 3.70, equating to 2,974,000 households for the live showing and 3,636,000 households for the replay.
"It was a super rating and to say we are really pleased is an understatement," Matlin said.
Approximately 3 million households saw Notre Dame blow out the University of Hawai'i, 49-21, in the Sheraton Hawai'i Bowl on Christmas Eve, record viewership for the seven-year-old game.
The bowl's owner, ESPN Regional Television, operates six bowl games and the Hawai'i Bowl viewership was the highest in the history of those bowls, according to David A. K. Matlin, executive director of the Hawai'i Bowl.
The game, thanks to the first appearance by storied Notre Dame, did a 3.03 rating live and, combined with the replay, a 3.70, equating to 2,974,000 households for the live showing and 3,636,000 households for the replay.
"It was a super rating and to say we are really pleased is an understatement," Matlin said.