Weekend Olympic ratings
Did Saturday night's Ravens game affect viewing of the Olympics? Maybe a bit. WBAL drew 22.4 percent of Baltimore's audience for NBC's prime-time coverage, the show when Michael Phelps swam for his eighth gold, Heading into the weekend, it had been averaging about 3 points higher. The Ravens-Vikings on WMAR got 7.3. And for the record: The Orioles on WJZ got 1.8 and the Ravens simulcast on MASN2 got 0.1.
During the quarter-hour when Phelps actually swam, WBAL's rating zoomed to 37.2, with a 59 share, meaning nearly 60 percent of all televisions in use were tuned to the Olympics.
Sunday night's Olympics, the first without Phelps competing at all since the opening ceremony, dropped to 19.9, the second-lowest of the Games for WBAL, behind only Wednesday's 19.6. On Wednesday, Phelps did not swim in any finals.

