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Is Mike Patrick strictly CFB now?
No idea to be honest.
why didn’t ESPN broadcast the Australian open live this morning
Coverage did air on ESPN this morning. Perhaps you were tuning into ESPN2?
Props on the clean design. Most all sites dealing with sports are so cluttered and noisy.
I am doing a research paper and I am wondering when Sports Media Watch first debuted.
2006
What were the TV ratings for the Celebration Bowl that occurred on Dec. 10, 2016 between Grambling State University and North Carolina Central University on ABC? Grambling on 10-9
2.0 overnight. Final numbers available tomorrow.
Hi Paulsen! I know that Rating accounts for the total homes in the largest 56 metered markets. But, what happens to the homes in the small towns not included in that markets. How do they calculate the total audience? For example. If Game 7 of this year’s WS had an audience of 40 million, does it includes that people. Do they make an estimation for the non-metered markets? Or otherwise that 40 million is only the audience in that 56 markets. Best regards! Fernando Lorences Spain
Hi Fernando, only the *overnight rating* is limited to the top 56 metered markets. The final rating, and the corresponding viewership totals, include all TV markets.
You appear to have missed the Louisville-NC St. game in your week 8 ratings.
Thanks for the heads-up, will add that in.
Your recent twitter posts regarding NBA theme music makes me think you might be the guy to answer this question: I’m positive in the early 1980’s, like around 1982, ESPN used a version of the Clash’s Rock the Casbah as its NBA theme song. I’ve tried to research this but have found nothing over the years. They didn’t use the actual song, but it was clear it was a variation of it. Can you confirm??
Greg in Orange County CA
Sorry to say I have no idea. Have seen little if any of ESPN’s NBA coverage from that period of time.
So here we are forced to watch the jets giants and PATRIOT because I live in CT. So when the jets play the Steelers you decide to put on some stupid movie. I think I’m done with fox.
Hello,
I am a student doing a research paper on the popularity in the NBA and I would like to use your site as a source in my paper, however, I have not found a sources section and to justify to my professor, because it is not a scholarly article or .edu domain, I would like to know where you got the information. It seems like it is based around knowledge that is made public but just to be able to use it I would appreciate a “yes this is public information found in a newspaper” or something of the sort.
Thanks!
Most posts have links to the source material at the bottom. Let me know which page or post in particular you’re planning to cite.
It is this post
http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2014/10/nba-tv-deal-espn-abc-tnt-nine-year-deal-2025-24-billion-lockout/
Thanks again!
A lot of the information in that post would have been released directly by the leagues or published in other news outlets like Sports Business Daily.
Good evening,
I’m a local Saints reporter and was trying to dig up some numbers that you might be able to help me out with. I’m trying to find the total viewership from the 2007 Monday Night Football game between the Saints-Falcons on 12/10/07, I’ve been able to locate every other besides this one. Just pointing me in the right direction would be helpful. Thanks!
5.7 rating, 8.449 million viewers.
I saw the Pitt/PSU game reached a 15.4 rating how does that stack up to other college games just curious
Difficult to gauge, since local ratings are not always available for college games. Plus a lot depends on the size of the market.
I am disgusted by how your commentators (mostly female} refer to American competitors by their first name and their opponents only by last name. I live in North America and am supporting NA players all the way, but to call their own by their first name and all others by their last name is very unprofessional. CHECK THIS OUT WITH YOUR REPLAYS. Take off your rose coloured glasses.
Can you tells us who had higher rating in Los Angeles tonight? The Rams on KCBS? Or, the Raiders on KCAL? Thank you.
I’d like to, but that info is not going to be publicly available unless its reported in one of the L.A. papers.
Thank you for the comprehensive listing of Olympic events. Outstanding
I’m glad it was useful for so many readers — definitely was not easy to put together or maintain these past few weeks.
Paulsen – I’m trying to get some stats on high school football. What’s considered a “good” rating/viewers for a high school football game? Also, do you have any metrics on the Nike Open/Elite 11 shows?
I’d say about a 0.3 on cable. U.S. Army All-American Bowl, which airs on broadcast net NBC, has posted a 0.9 in past two years. I’d have to look for the Nike Open/Elite 11 numbers.
I meant to say, please add an equestrian events schedule link. Thanks!
Did not have the time to put one together; just search through the master schedule and you’ll be able to find those events.
Hi!
You forgot to put a link to the equestrian events. You did this for the other sports, so please add that. Thanks!
Hi,
I am doing a research project on NBA TV ratings and attendance data. I have tv ratings back to 1996 and attendance percentages back to 2002, but have not been able to find good data before that. I was wondering if you know where I could find any of this information or even if you can point me in the right direction, that would be helpful.
Thanks! Josh
Love your site man. Been coming here for years. I was thinking a couple things involved with Sports Television at the moment:
1. No one has called BS on ESPN for dumping on the Olympics in Rio. Wasn’t it just two years ago that they were in NBC’s position and televised a HUGE event called the World Cup in the SAME location? The waters were just as dirty, people were just as poor, crime was just as bad. The only difference is Zika. I get it but if you listen to Mike and Mike and other places they talk about “American’s should take a stand for poor conditions there” Wait what? TWO YEARS only! This didn’t just happen… I find it laughable that no blog/website/whatever has not blasted them on that. So obvious that ESPN is the worst when they don’t have rights to something, that event is shit. When they have rights to something, that event is the best. That is how they spin everything. Watch the (lack of) play they give the British Open this week…
2. With said rights of British Open moving to NBC, US (Golf) Open moving to FOX, US (Tennis) Open moving to ESPN: I think your site would be interesting to place the top 10 sports and media partnerships of all time and if they did break up then why. Here is mine: 1. Masters on CBS (Current) 2. NBA on NBC (Money Grab to ESPN but there is no partnership that should be back together more than this one) 3. Wimbledon on HBO (It was awesome; no commercials, Jim Lampley. HBO got out of sports? I guess) 4. SNF on NBC (Current) 5. MLB Game of The Week on NBC/MLB on NBC (Incredible announcers through the years to Bob Costas. But gave in to FOX) 6. Olympics on NBC (Say what you want but no one does it/could do it better) 7. EPL on NBC (Current) 8. NFL on FOX (This made the network and this is what FOX does best) 9. World Cup on ESPN (They are douchebags but they do the World Cup and…) 10. CFB on ESPN (College football THE BEST)
Do you have ratings for the June 25 Premier Boxing Champions card in San Antonio on NBCSN?
213,000 viewers: http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-150-saturday-cable-originals-network-finals-6-25-2016.html. Rating not available.
Fyi. Mets’ flight makes emergency stop after radio announcer Howie Rose falls ill
Thanks for the heads-up.
how are Stanley cup ratings in canada
Haven’t seen anything posted about those.
Disappointed no info on the french open
Any word on the Overnights for the Indycar Race in New Orleans last Sunday ? The race itself was dreadful because of the weather I’m wondering if the TV numbers are equally bad ?
Do you have all sports ratings for March 2015 for Big Ten Network? Thank you.
Sorry, those numbers usually are not made public. If BTN releases anything, I’ll let you know.
Do you have ratings for any of the FCS (1aa) football playoff games? ESPN carried the games.
I’ll see what I can put together — I could probably get those numbers.
Ok
From Sports Business Daily — FCS title game had 1.4M viewers, up 16% from last year: http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Issues/2015/01/16/Media/Final-Ratings.aspx
Thank you
Hey Paulsen in your “Most Impressive Awards” post you did late last year I said Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts deserves to be the #2 commentating pair on the NFL on CBS and according to CBSSports.com it is Official that 2 will be!
Even though that isn’t as Big of a deal because NBC will take away either CBS’ or FOX’s Divisional round game for the next 8 years, lets keep in mind that Nantz/Simms will have some Sunday’s off because of Thursday Night Football which will open the door for Eagle/Fouts to telecast the most intriguing Football game CBS will have to offer. Lastly, I was surprised not seeing Brian Billick get a CBS deal and Trent Green along with Greg Gumbel ought to be interesting
Hi, I have bought tickets to the Nets game 6 round 1 of the finals based on the NBA finals schedule outlined on your site. Can you please confirm how accurate the schedule is or where you sourced it from? I am travelling from overseas and only have a few days in NYC (so want to make sure it’s correct).
Cheers
Hey Jason, I responded to the e-mail you sent.
Do you have pre-2012 nfl tv schedules showing the network and type of coverage (national, regional, etc)? I am trying to put together some analysis and found your site the most helpful with tv schedules. thank you for what you have already provided. great site
I don’t have complete schedules from before 2012. The closest would be some of the ratings posts I did from 2009-11 (here’s a link to one of them http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2012/01/2011-12-nfl-numbers-game/ . Hope that helps.
Thanks for the response. I will keep searching or go the old-fashioned manual approach looking through boxscores.
Any ratings for Western Kentucky vs Kentucky from August 31st, 2013 on ESPN News? Also Western Kentucky is listed as W. Kentucky in some posts. Could it be changed for consistency? Thanks!
I don’t have the ESPNEWS numbers from Week 1, unfortunately. As far as labeling goes, I’ll see if I can make it more consistent.
Bummer on no week 1, thanks though, and no biggie on the naming really. I know other sites are using yours to compile avg. viewership by teams and I think it was causing some confusion. Thanks for the site! It is great!
Any ratings on the MLS All-Star match Wednesday? Thanks.
Haven’t seen those numbers yet, but I’ll post them when I get them.
What happened to NBCSN ‘The Lights’ morning highlight show? It was a 20 minute show that pretty much gave the viewer every highlight in sports from the night before, unlike ESPN who picks and choses which highlights to show. I really enjoyed the show, but haven’t seen it since the NHL playoffs started in May? Did they cancel it?
SBJ reported a few weeks ago that The Lights will return this month.
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