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College football TV scheduling is horrendous...
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:11 pm
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:11 pm
Yes they were blowouts, but why the fuk would TV executives deliberately schedule their network's biggest game directly against one another??
The ND game should've easily been the afternoon game and the Penn State game should've been primetime. This trend of scheduling every marquee game against one another is also a relatively new.
Remember, The "Bush Push" ND vs USC game in 2005 was in fact an afternoon game... This makes no sense, either business wise for a network or strategy wise for the health of college football
The ND game should've easily been the afternoon game and the Penn State game should've been primetime. This trend of scheduling every marquee game against one another is also a relatively new.
Remember, The "Bush Push" ND vs USC game in 2005 was in fact an afternoon game... This makes no sense, either business wise for a network or strategy wise for the health of college football
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 4:13 pm
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Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:14 pm to Jack Ruby
It sucks for the viewers for sure, but I don't know why you expect NBC and ESPN/ABC to consul each other.
The ones that are REALLY terrible is when you have a great game at 8et on ABC and another great one at the same time on ESPN. Expect something like that to happen on week 10 with so many great matchups
The ones that are REALLY terrible is when you have a great game at 8et on ABC and another great one at the same time on ESPN. Expect something like that to happen on week 10 with so many great matchups
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:17 pm to Jack Ruby
Late Saturday afternoon is actually the optimal viewing time that garners the highest ratings. There's a reason why the SEC Championship Game has been played at 4:00 for the last 10+ years instead of 7:00 or 8:00.
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:18 pm to Jack Ruby
One of the worst aspects of having a mediocre/bad team is that you are a slave to watching them over the 30 other better games being played at the time
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:22 pm to Jack Ruby
Agree.
Penn State should always be a nightgame with their white-outs and USC/ND should always be an afternoon game.
In fact just like the Miami series, day games...all games at South Bend should be day games.
The first USC-ND night game was in 2011. It was the first night game played in South Bend in 21 years.
Then 2012 was another night game.
Then 2013 was another night game.
2015 was another damn night game at Notre Dame.
2017...another damn night game at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame didn't play night games forever...and now, they are acting like an SEC school.
This infatuation with night games is getting old.
Penn State should always be a nightgame with their white-outs and USC/ND should always be an afternoon game.
In fact just like the Miami series, day games...all games at South Bend should be day games.
The first USC-ND night game was in 2011. It was the first night game played in South Bend in 21 years.
Then 2012 was another night game.
Then 2013 was another night game.
2015 was another damn night game at Notre Dame.
2017...another damn night game at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame didn't play night games forever...and now, they are acting like an SEC school.
This infatuation with night games is getting old.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:28 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Week 2 was ridicuous with Clem/Aub, UGA/ND, Stanford/USC, and OSU/Okla all at night.
This coming week is weird. There is no really good night game. Clem/GT is whatever. I guess it's just a down week.
This coming week is weird. There is no really good night game. Clem/GT is whatever. I guess it's just a down week.
This post was edited on 10/22/17 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:55 pm to Bunk Moreland
Agreed. Penn State vs Ohio State is a 230 game this saturday. Should be on in primetime.
Posted on 10/22/17 at 4:59 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:split screen, TVs. I love it!
Yes they were blowouts, but why the fuk would TV executives deliberately schedule their network's biggest game directly against one another??
Posted on 10/22/17 at 5:03 pm to BatonRougeBuckeye
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Agreed. Penn State vs Ohio State is a 230 game this saturday. Should be on in primetime.
2:30pm is a fine time
That is when I prefer Alabama to play
Im guessing it will still be the highest rated game of the season
Posted on 10/22/17 at 5:28 pm to Bunk Moreland
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This coming week is weird. There is no really good night game. Clem/GT is whatever. I guess it's just a down week.
This upcoming Saturday is when everyone celebrates Halloween. Will probably be less viewers at night because of it. Thats why OSU/PSU, TCU/Iowa State, and Notre Dame/NCSU are all at 3:30.
Posted on 10/22/17 at 5:39 pm to Jack Ruby
Granddaddy of them all
Posted on 10/22/17 at 7:43 pm to Jack Ruby
Yea it's been terrible all year.
Posted on 10/22/17 at 9:33 pm to Jack Ruby
Still better than the NFL’s tv schedule. At least you can pick any school that you want to watch
Posted on 10/23/17 at 12:20 am to Finkle is Einhorn
At least it's not NFL. I still can't believe that it's 2017, I live 2 hours away from my hometown in Michigan, but I literally can't watch my home state NFL team on television because I don't have Directv and live in Bears territory. How the hell does this make financial sense to have fans hungry to watch their team but can't? There has to be more money in the long run allowing tons of different channels to air games.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 7:21 am to Bench McElroy
Actually most of the prime times games used to all be at 230
Once the networks saw you could have marquee games on a Sat night that's when the shift began.
ESPN led the way with all the marquee SEC matchups.
CBS kind of started it with the LSU Bama primetime games.
ABC top games were at 230 but then ESPN stepped in and started shifting the biggest game to primetime.
Notre Dame and NBC moved a couple games to primetime.
Fox joined the fun as well.
Once the networks saw you could have marquee games on a Sat night that's when the shift began.
ESPN led the way with all the marquee SEC matchups.
CBS kind of started it with the LSU Bama primetime games.
ABC top games were at 230 but then ESPN stepped in and started shifting the biggest game to primetime.
Notre Dame and NBC moved a couple games to primetime.
Fox joined the fun as well.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 7:41 am to BatonRougeBuckeye
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Agreed. Penn State vs Ohio State is a 230 game this saturday. Should be on in primetime.
A lot of that is because Fox has the World Series too. If ESPN had the World Series, then that game would likely be primetime
Posted on 10/23/17 at 8:35 am to nicholastiger
All these games are in primetime bc it chews up a whole night and there really isn't any programming that could do better on a Saturday night...
Posted on 10/23/17 at 11:19 am to chalmetteowl
I wish we could go back to the vast majority of games being played Saturday during the day. That's when LSU and Arizona State were really the only schools that played at night. By Saturday evening you knew what happened in college football and you could watch baseball playoffs or go out and do stuff without wondering about the game. LSU would have 5, 6, or 7 home games at night. Sometimes you'd have LSU at Tiger Stadium during the day for tv and when LSU was on tv Saturday night it was really special.
This post was edited on 10/23/17 at 11:21 am
Posted on 10/23/17 at 2:31 pm to Jack Ruby
quote:Curious, do you think competing networks shouldn’t try to get as many viewers as possible in each time slot? Do you think they could agree on who should just give up revenue at a particular part of the day?
why the fuk would TV executives deliberately schedule their network's biggest game directly against one another??
quote:
This trend of scheduling every marquee game against one another is also a relatively new.
I don’t think it is and it predates ESPN, no way it was going to get better with more networks broadcasting games.
I do feel your frustration, though.
Posted on 10/23/17 at 2:54 pm to devils1854
quote:We are talking about the same geniuses who make a playoff game on New Years Eve
This upcoming Saturday is when everyone celebrates Halloween. Will probably be less viewers at night because of it.
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