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re: ESPN
Posted on 10/2/08 at 10:16 am to NC_Tigah
Posted on 10/2/08 at 10:16 am to NC_Tigah
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Viewership and Neilson Ratings. The Pac10 has nothing this year. Nothing. How can ESPN otherwise capture West Coast interest?
NC nailed it.... it's not about being objective in the news, it's about putting out news that accumulates ratings. Higher ratings = right price for ad time = money.
They have to do what they can do to keep viewer ratings up while the southeast and northeast and midwest have consistent viewer ratings (or better than the west coast). So they have to play along and keep them entertained. They even tried to change it up with UCLA one year, hyping them up only for them to be beat by a mediocre Tenn team.
It's a shame that it has to be this way, but just exercise your right to get better news by not depending on ESPN. That is what I have done. I know it's hard to get that on cable, but as far as internet goes there are much more objective sporting news sites than ESPN. Just have peace with media is money and it will not bother you as much.
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