Oregon State-California football attracts a season low for television viewership

The bad news: Oregon State lost 44-7 to California in Berkeley last Saturday.

The good news: Not many watched.

Oregon State’s most recent game against California, televised on ESPN2, had only an average of 183,000 viewers, according to sportsmediawatch.com.

By a large margin, it was a season low for viewership of a Beavers game. The previous low was Idaho State, which had an average of 381,000 viewers.

Cal-Oregon State is the only game this season shown on one of the ESPN networks.

OSU had success with viewership with its home games on the CW Network this season. The Beavers’ most recent CW game, UNLV, had an average of 507,000 viewers. Earlier in October, OSU-Colorado State had 568,000 viewers, a season high for games televised by CW.

Here are season viewership numbers for Oregon State games:

Oregon: 2.82 million (Fox)

Colorado State: 568,000 (CW)

UNLV: 507,000 (CW)

Purdue: 452,000 (CW)

Idaho State: 381,000 (CW)

x-San Diego State, Nevada: unrated (CBS Sports Network)

x-Nielsen does not rate and measure viewership for game on CBS Sports Network.

–Nick Daschel can be reached at 360-607-4824, ndaschel@oregonian.com or @nickdaschel.

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