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re: Overall Bowl Ratings
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:35 am to Tigertown in ATL
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:35 am to Tigertown in ATL
I heard on ESPN radio that it was the most watched event ever. Maybe I misheard.
Thought it was odd.
ETA: LINK
Cable TV ratings. So, last year's BCS was not on ESPN I guess?
Thought it was odd.
ETA: LINK
Cable TV ratings. So, last year's BCS was not on ESPN I guess?
This post was edited on 1/13/11 at 10:40 am
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Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:42 am to Baloo
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I'd explain last year's Cap One rating by saying Penn St fans are fanatical.
AND a ton of them live here in Central Florida. Pennsylvanians and Ohioians make up major numbers of Florida residents.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:44 am to LSU ATC
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Cable TV ratings.
Makes more sense.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:44 am to LSU ATC
I see that the Prestigious JustinBieber Bowl was snuffed out of the ratings yet again. Even the 10LossTeam Bowl as well. Crossing my fingers that the JoyBehar Bowl get's some viewers next year!
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:49 am to SPEEDY
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Insight Bowl
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wow
And that's why bowl selection committees consistently want Iowa if they can get em.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:52 am to LSU6262
Penn State and LSU seems to have a good tv audience. Both Cotton and Outback up a huge amount over last year but the Cap one down considerably.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 10:53 am to LSU6262
IMO
most interesting data in the list is Notre Dame.
They have their own network and there are 47 million Catholics in the USA alone and yet they only garnered a teeny viewership of their game vs Miami the U.
most interesting data in the list is Notre Dame.
They have their own network and there are 47 million Catholics in the USA alone and yet they only garnered a teeny viewership of their game vs Miami the U.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:39 am to LSU6262
Auburn fans posted links on how the BCSCG was the most watched event in cable TV history. How is that if it was down 11% from last years BCSCG?
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Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:41 am to ottothewise
Here's my take, FWIW.
The new bowl schedule was designed for the benefit of everyone on the business side. Bowl games during the week are simply for making revenue on normally slow days - TV ratings, travel time and stay length for fans attending, and on, and on. What was lost in the process is how the team fans and college football viewing public at large actually enjoy it.
IMO, they have killed the momentum and feel of the holiday bowl season. Dragging out the process until near mid January is too long. People would likely watch more bowl games if shown closer to the holidays than not. Also, they are now mixing up bad bowls with BCS bowls, hurting the ability to build momentum as each bowl leads to the Championship.
Weekday games between Christmas and New year's would fare better than weekday games after. Push the low level bowls up to earlier days, and move the big bowls up a week. Get rid of low rent bowls during the prime week. Make the BSC title game a weekend affair so that people can enjoy a day long build up. Most people are very busy right after the holidays, and those first weekdays back don't lend themselves well to getting ready for big games (cookouts, get-togethers). Think Super Bowl Sunday.
The powers that be thought they'd make more money by dragging it out and moving it into what would be slow time for travel and TV. Instead, they forgot about the people who actually watch these events.
The new bowl schedule was designed for the benefit of everyone on the business side. Bowl games during the week are simply for making revenue on normally slow days - TV ratings, travel time and stay length for fans attending, and on, and on. What was lost in the process is how the team fans and college football viewing public at large actually enjoy it.
IMO, they have killed the momentum and feel of the holiday bowl season. Dragging out the process until near mid January is too long. People would likely watch more bowl games if shown closer to the holidays than not. Also, they are now mixing up bad bowls with BCS bowls, hurting the ability to build momentum as each bowl leads to the Championship.
Weekday games between Christmas and New year's would fare better than weekday games after. Push the low level bowls up to earlier days, and move the big bowls up a week. Get rid of low rent bowls during the prime week. Make the BSC title game a weekend affair so that people can enjoy a day long build up. Most people are very busy right after the holidays, and those first weekdays back don't lend themselves well to getting ready for big games (cookouts, get-togethers). Think Super Bowl Sunday.
The powers that be thought they'd make more money by dragging it out and moving it into what would be slow time for travel and TV. Instead, they forgot about the people who actually watch these events.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:41 am to ottothewise
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They have their own network and there are 47 million Catholics in the USA alone
Im not sure being Catholic has anything to do with it. My whole family is Catholic and none of us couldn't give a rats arse about Notre Dame football.
This post was edited on 1/13/11 at 11:41 am
Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:47 am to LSU6262
Like I asked before...where are all the Friday Night Cotton Bowl Haters at????
Ya'll cried like little bitches saying how bad the rating were gonna be....ya'll are idiots!
Ya'll cried like little bitches saying how bad the rating were gonna be....ya'll are idiots!
Posted on 1/13/11 at 11:53 am to Choctaw
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Bowl Ratings
Auburn fans posted links on how the BCSCG was the most watched event in cable TV history. How is that if it was down 11% from last years BCSCG?
Last year's game wasn't on cable TV
There's a huge difference between broadcast TV (ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX) and basic cable.
There was some article today about how TBS executives are doing cartwheels of joy over Conan O'Brian's ratings even though they are much smaller than what he was pulling at NBC.
The fact that AU-OU were able to almost maintain ratings with a switch to basic cable is a HUGE feather in the cap of ESPN, and of course the teams involved. It will be interesting to see what the numbers do in the future. Right now, it's looking like a gamble that really paid off for Disney/ABC/ESPN.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 12:33 pm to Lacour
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So outside of the BCS games and the Outback (which was on in a prime spot on New Year's Day on ABC) the Cotton was the highest rated bowl of the season.
PSU always has a pretty huge following nationally fwiw. Notice the big decrease for the CAP one as opposed to last years LSU/OSU matchup.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 1:19 pm to OldIowaTiger
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And that's why bowl selection committees consistently want Iowa if they can get em.
It has nothing to do with that (though Iowa's certainly not a "bad" draw). It's because it was on ESPN this year, as opposed to the NFL Network last year.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 1:25 pm to nycajun
The Cap One bowl got moved to ESPN and was not on network tv. If it had stayed on ABC it would have had the same slot as the Outback bowl. Notice how much higher the ratings were for that game than the Cotton Bowl.
This post was edited on 1/13/11 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 1/13/11 at 1:27 pm to otowntiger
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The Cap One bowl got moved to ESPN and was not one network tv. If it had stayed on ABC it would have had the same slot as the Outback bowl. Notice how much higher the ratings were for that game than the Cotton Bowl.
I will also say, while more people didn't watch the Cap One specifically, it still probably got a lot of exposure, just from the fact it was on the same time as the Outback. So people still saw the Cap One score, saw the updates, could flip to the Cap One on commercials, it got a lot of coverage, etc. So its "exposure" was of a different kind.
Posted on 1/13/11 at 1:46 pm to LSU6262
35 games, 70 teams, only 2 (or maybe 3) of which have any shot at all at a BCS or AP championship. How could it possibly affect the "bowl system" if 3 of those bowls (and the worst 6 teams) were eliminated (so as to retain the same number of postseason games, though I'm not sure why we would want to do that) and an 8 team, 3 round playoff were instituted?
Posted on 1/13/11 at 1:49 pm to LSU6262
Music City Bowl was one of the best. The Rose Bowl was good too for a change
Posted on 1/13/11 at 2:09 pm to LSU6262
I thought LSU was a ratings drain for bowl games? Wasn't that what the WSJ article a month ago said?
Posted on 1/13/11 at 3:22 pm to Buckeye Fan 19
quote:Exactly!
I will also say, while more people didn't watch the Cap One specifically, it still probably got a lot of exposure, just from the fact it was on the same time as the Outback. So people still saw the Cap One score, saw the updates, could flip to the Cap One on commercials, it got a lot of coverage, etc. So its "exposure" was of a different kind.
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