The Hawks’ 96-86 victory over the Grizzlies Wednesday night recorded the second-highest rating for a game on SportSouth this season. The game did a rating of 2.65.
The top three games for viewership this season are:
1. vs. Clippers (Dec. 23): .2.78
2. vs. Grizzlies (Jan. 7): 2.65
3. at Rockets (Dec. 20): 2.16
The Hawks game did better locally than both games of the ESPN NBA doubleheader of Rockets vs. Cavaliers and Suns vs. Timberwolves.
According to the network, the ratings for Hawks games are up 29 percent year-to-year over 32 games.
In other news, SportSouthhas picked up Sunday’s Hawks-Wizards game. The game was previously not scheduled to be aired. Also, the network has picked up the Jan. 14 game against the Celtics that was orginally scheduled to air on ESPN. The network switched coverage to the Hawks-Nets game on Jan. 28 and moved the game time to 8 p.m.
Check out this Vine of the reaction of the Hawks bench to Kyle Korver's game-clinching 3-pointer last night.
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