Baseball ratings are up thanks to the Cubs legit chance at the World Series.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-ratings-mets-series-winning-832658
FYI - Wrigley playoff tickets are averaging $1,300 dollars in the secondary market, the highest ever for a LCS. Estimates are Wrigley World Series tickets, should the Cubs make it, will be the most expensive ticket in baseball history. The Cubs also announced that more than one million people have registered on their website for single game tickets.
FS1 need attention. It needs an "event" to make the broader public aware that it exists and seek it out. Once they do, they hope is they will remember it as a destination with "meaningful" sports programming (like BE basketball!)
Is the "event***" the Cubs World Series run? In the long run will this matter for the network and from this moment forward this will see overall higher levels of ratings? Or will it get record ratings (tonight's game is expected to be a network rating record ... and will broken until later in the series) and then sink back to its pre-cubs mania levels?
Thoughts?
*** = In 1993 Letterman's new show on CBS was regularly getting better ratings than Leno's Tonight Show. This went on for 18 months. Leno need an "event" to change his fortunes.
In 1995 Hugh Grant was arrested for soliciting a prostitute. A few weeks later he went on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to explain himself. The Tonight Show had monsters ratings that night and from that moment forward consistently saw better ratings that Letterman. One 'event" change the fortunes of the entire show for years to come.
Could a Cubs World Series run do the same thing for FS1?
Quote from: Heisenberg on October 17, 2015, 06:35:28 PM
Baseball ratings are up thanks to the Cubs legit chance at the World Series.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/tv-ratings-mets-series-winning-832658
FYI - Wrigley playoff tickets are averaging $1,300 dollars in the secondary market, the highest ever for a LCS. Estimates are Wrigley World Series tickets, should the Cubs make it, will be the most expensive ticket in baseball history. The Cubs also announced that more than one million people have registered on their website for single game tickets.
FS1 need attention. It needs an "event" to make the broader public aware that it exists and seek it out. Once they do, they hope is they will remember it as a destination with "meaningful" sports programming (like BE basketball!)
Is the "event" the Cubs World Series run? In the long run will this matter for the network or will it get record ratings (tonight's game is expected to be a network rating record ... and will broken until later in the series) and then sink back to its pre-cubs mania levels?
Thoughts?
FIND STEVE BARTMAN!
Mets-Cubs entire series will be on TBS.
FS1 covering KC-Toronto series.
World Series will be on Fox, so Cubs will not even be seen on FS1.
Quote from: nyg on October 17, 2015, 06:46:35 PM
Mets-Cubs entire series will be on TBS.
FS1 covering KC-Toronto series.
World Series will be on Fox, so Cubs will not even be seen on FS1.
Crap, I've been watching them now on FS1 talking about it and assumed they would have the NLCS as well.
Can the BE change its deal to TBS!
When the BE puts a better product on the floor, it will get better ratings on FS1. In the meantime, just cash the checks.
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on October 17, 2015, 07:10:52 PM
When the BE puts a better product on the floor, it will get better ratings on FS1. In the meantime, just cash the checks.
Bingo!
Then after the games, most people will turn the channel to ESPN for their sports news.
FS1 is not a secret. Sports fans know where the different sports channels are. When FS1 delivers a better product, they will get better ratings.
Quote from: brandx on October 17, 2015, 07:23:39 PM
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. When FS1 delivers a better product, they will get better ratings.
Check out Colin Cowherd's Sidekick on FS1.
Kristine Leahy---so hot, want to touch the heine, ai na?
Quote from: 4everwarriors on October 17, 2015, 10:59:05 PM
Kristine Leahy---so hot, want to touch the heine, ai na?
She's from my Home Town
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on October 17, 2015, 07:10:52 PM
When the BE puts a better product on the floor, it will get better ratings on FS1. In the meantime, just cash the checks.
I think WE are taking the first steps toward that with the Luke and Henry Show.
Right here on FS1. Stay turned, same Eagle time. Same Eagle channel!!!!! :-)
WGN=Dumba$$
Great timing.
So in regards to the OP, I guess the answer is no, ai'na?
Quote from: real chili 83 on October 18, 2015, 09:31:00 AM
WGN=Dumba$$
Great timing.
WLS paid the Cubs 200% more than WGN.
WGN wanted them but was not willing to pony up that much.
CUBS ARE LONG TIME LOSERS, ALWAYS WILL BE.
Quote from: 4everwarriors on October 17, 2015, 10:59:05 PM
Kristine Leahy---so hot, want to touch the heine, ai na?
Went to high school with her and two of my friends dated her. She's about as smart as her on-air persona suggests.
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on October 17, 2015, 07:10:52 PM
When the BE puts a better product on the floor, it will get better ratings on FS1. In the meantime, just cash the checks.
6 out of 10 team went to the dance. The league was #2 in the RPI.
Quote from: bradley center bat on October 19, 2015, 09:08:43 AM
6 out of 10 team went to the dance. The league was #2 in the RPI.
March matters. Need someone in the Final Four and multiple teams in the second weekend.
Quote from: brewcity77 on October 19, 2015, 09:17:04 AM
March matters. Need someone in the Final Four and multiple teams in the second weekend.
I don't disagree, but many overrate results in March.
Quote from: The Sultan of Sunshine on October 17, 2015, 07:10:52 PM
When the BE puts a better product on the floor, it will get better ratings on FS1. In the meantime, just cash the checks.
Quote from: brewcity77 on October 19, 2015, 09:17:04 AM
March matters. Need someone in the Final Four and multiple teams in the second weekend.
How does March success affect the previous November to February TV ratings?
Quote from: Heisenberg on October 19, 2015, 12:35:39 PM
How does March success affect the previous November to February TV ratings?
It doesn't. It affects next November to February's TV ratings
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on October 19, 2015, 12:55:08 PM
It doesn't. It affects next November to February's TV ratings
Granted, but one has to believe there is something of a real-time correlation.
Quote from: TAMU Eagle on October 19, 2015, 12:55:08 PM
It doesn't. It affects next November to February's TV ratings
So three years ago we were an E8 team. Two years ago we were a pre-season BE favorite in year 1 of the new FS1 contract (Brent's last year).
By this logic we should have been the marquee draw of the league. I don't seem to remember it turning out that way. (Yes we disappointed but that was not apparent until February and should not have affected TV ratings.)
And, if HE leads us into the second week (again if) and he leaves, you expect us to have much better TV ratings next year?
Quote from: Heisenberg on October 20, 2015, 06:38:52 AM
So three years ago we were an E8 team. Two years ago we were a pre-season BE favorite in year 1 of the new FS1 contract (Brent's last year).
By this logic we should have been the marquee draw of the league. I don't seem to remember it turning out that way. (Yes we disappointed but that was not apparent until February and should not have affected TV ratings.)
And, if HE leads us into the second week (again if) and he leaves, you expect us to have much better TV ratings next year?
1) I believe the March success argument has more to do with conference-wide success in March vs. the correlation of any one team's success in March. When the entire BEast consistently does well in March, FS1 being known as the home of the BEast will naturally draw more viewership.
2) There are too many unique cases in the first two years of FS1 to draw conclusions that prove/disprove any theories about how March success impacts viewership. The big east was largely starting from scratch as most of the uninformed public assumed it would not be a good product with the schools they lost. Couple that with their games being on a new network and you have an instability in viewership that outweighs any other factors that could play into viewership.
Quote from: Heisenberg on October 20, 2015, 06:38:52 AM
So three years ago we were an E8 team. Two years ago we were a pre-season BE favorite in year 1 of the new FS1 contract (Brent's last year).
By this logic we should have been the marquee draw of the league. I don't seem to remember it turning out that way. (Yes we disappointed but that was not apparent until February and should not have affected TV ratings.)
We were one of the most (if not the most) watched teams in the league. There would have been less viewers if we had lost in round 1 to Davidson.
Quote from: Heisenberg on October 20, 2015, 06:38:52 AM
And, if HE leads us into the second week (again if) and he leaves, you expect us to have much better TV ratings next year?
Yes.
March success isn't the only factor, but it is a factor.
I think the BE's make up of a bunch of private schools limits the audience. I think the BE was fortunate to have a willing partner to pay what it did for its basketball games. I think the only way they get a significant number of casual fans to watch is if there is either a late season top 10 match-up, OR if a team like the 1980s Hoyas emerges.
Quote from: Ellenson Guerrero on October 18, 2015, 09:35:21 PM
Went to high school with her and two of my friends dated her. She's about as smart as her on-air persona suggests.
Boston University isn't an easy school to get into.