CLEVELAND, OH – Cleveland Indians telecast ratings on SportsTime Ohio increased 12% from last season finishing the 2014 MLB season with a 6.1 average household rating (over 90,000 households). As recently reported in the Sports Business Journal, Tribe ratings on SportsTime Ohio also finished 5th in MLB.

Ratings highlights:

– The highest rated game of the 2014 season was the Indians home opener vs. the Minnesota Twins, which garnered a 14.77 HH in simulcast with WKYC (over 219,000 households).

– The highest rated non-simulcast game of the season was the July 9th game vs. the New York Yankees which went from 7pm to midnight and produced a 10.24 HH average (over 150,000 households).

– From the start of the season through August, Indians telecasts were the highest-rated and most-viewed programming on television in Northeast Ohio, averaging an 6.84 household rating and over 101,500 households in prime time (7pm-11pm) – +70% higher than the No. 2-ranked CBS (4.04) during the same period, according to Nielsen.

– The month of July was the third best month ever and best since August, 2011 for the Tribe on SportsTime Ohio with a 7.0 HH average (104,000 households). In 23 games this July on SportsTime Ohio, the Indians were either #1 or #2 for the entire day 18 times (78% of games) and were #1 in 16 of them.