The Beavers and Boilermakers’ game was televised by The CW network.
Oregon State’s Week 4 game against Purdue in Reser Stadium was viewed by 452,000 on The CW.
Three of OSU’s four televised games this season have been measured by rating service Nielsen. The three games – Idaho State, Oregon, Purdue – have averaged 1.21 million viewers. OSU’s two games on The CW are averaging 417,000.
The CW showed three football games last weekend. Friday night’s Washington State-San Jose State four-hour thriller was viewed by 542,000, while Texas Christian-SMU attracted 322,000.
Oregon State-Purdue had a kickoff time of 5:30 p.m. Other games that roughly started in that time slot were Tennessee-Oklahoma (6.27 million, ABC), Baylor-Colorado (3.64 million, Fox), Iowa-Minnesota (1.89 million, NBC), Portland State-Boise State (248,000, FS1), Akron-South Carolina (89,000, ESPNU) and Fresno State-New Mexico (55,000, truTV).
The most watched game last weekend was USC at Michigan, viewed by 6.32 million.
Oregon State’s next game is Oct. 5 against Colorado State, televised by The CW.
—Nick Daschel can be reached at 360-607-4824, [email protected] or @nickdaschel.
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