[Paint Touches] Bleak ratings outlook for Big East and FOX Sports 1

[PaintTouches]

The Big East loses six of its top seven teams in terms of TV ratings anf will only have three in the top-50 going into next season.

How steep will the ratings hit be?   http://bit.ly/17CHW4H

[Jay Bee]

Pain Touches? I think that's ZFB's website.

[PaintTouches]

Busted.

[Dawson Rental]

The Big East loses six of its top seven teams in terms of TV ratings anf will only have three in the top-50 going into next season.

How steep will the ratings hit be?   http://bit.ly/17CHW4H

But 6 in the top 58.  The problem, of course, will be nobody in the top ten.  I wonder how Gonzaga does with all those games against unranked conference opponents?

Hopefully, the entire league gets some boost from being the featured league on a new sports station.  Maybe they'll get the effect that WGN created for the Cubs when the Cubs got a national following due to WGN getting included in cable packages.  Of course, day games helped there too.  Every other collegiate basketball program will have to compete with 100 other programs to get time on ESPN and ESPN2.

I think that St. John's improving team will give us a boost in the top TV market, as well.  Now if we can just get the DePaul ball rolling.

[Groin_pull]

Is any conference pulling in monster ratings? College hoops does pretty poorly across the board.

[frozena pizza]

Hopefully, the entire league gets some boost from being the featured league on a new sports station.  

Well, maybe.  But I'm expecting the opposite effect.  We are moving from being a featured league on ESPN, without question the place to go for college basketball games, to being the featured league on a network that is not even in existence yet.  That by itself has got to hurt ratings quite a bit.

I'm excited about the new league, but I think it's going to feel a lot more like the old A-10 than the old Big East.

[Sunbelt15]

Is any conference pulling in monster ratings? College hoops does pretty poorly across the board.

ACC might tip the scale this year.

[Dawson Rental]

Well, maybe.  But I'm expecting the opposite effect.  We are moving from being a featured league on ESPN, without question the place to go for college basketball games, to being the featured league on a network that is not even in existence yet.  That by itself has got to hurt ratings quite a bit.

I'm excited about the new league, but I think it's going to feel a lot more like the old A-10 than the old Big East.

I'm sure that Fox will pump promo dollars into getting the new station established.  That should help.

[keefe]

I wouldn't worry. We're in the Bigs with Fox. I would worry if we were not on Fox.

[GooooMarquette]

Size matters.  When you look at the ratings list, the vast majority of the schools ahead of MU are larger schools.  Makes sense, since a larger school means more students and alums to naturally follow the program.  Add to that the fact that many are flagship state schools, and you get many non-alums following the school just because it's "their state school."  How else do you explain Minnesota at #9, Maryland at #15...and MU at #37?

I suspect we'll do fine the first few years because the BE will be featured on Fox, while many of the other conferences will be fighting for time slots on ESPN.  Long term success will depend heavily on how well the teams produce on the court.

[frozena pizza]

I wouldn't worry. We're in the Bigs with Fox. I would worry if we were not on Fox.

If nothing else I'm expecting to see some top notch sideline girls at the BC.

[Atticus]

B1G was number one last year in average rating per espn game. ACC was #2. I think SEC was #3.

The BE, even with the top teams leaving, wasnt a ratings hit. Too many small, private schools.

[strotty]

http://painttouches.com/2013/06/10/bleak-ratings-outlook-for-big-east-and-fox-sports-1/

[TheTulsaWarrior]

A little better off than the early days of the old American Football League.  The schools need to use the Fox money to build for the future and Fox needs to market, market, market.

I wish Blue was still around.  he would have been featured repeatedly by Fox.

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://painttouches.com/2013/06/10/bleak-ratings-outlook-for-big-east-and-fox-sports-1/

Don't worry, football is going to collapse any day now and people will flock to hoops. 


Not everyone is going to carry Fox Sports One in the first year, which will only dilute those numbers even more.

[dbwarriors]

http://painttouches.com/2013/06/10/bleak-ratings-outlook-for-big-east-and-fox-sports-1/

What's your analysis look like for Big 12, Pac 12, and SEC from last year?  I can't imagine it differentiates all that much then the Big East teams (for next year).

[keefe]

Don't worry, football is going to collapse any day now and people will flock to hoops. 

Are you speaking of Notre Dame's last game in January?

[the eagle]

I'm sure that Fox will pump promo dollars into getting the new station established.  That should help.

These promos will be Gus Johnson screaming his ass off. Even promos excite him.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Fox Reportedly Packaging Super Bowl Ad Sales With Fox Sports 1 Sponsorship

Published June 18, 2013

Fox will televise Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2, 2014, and to "get one of the valuable ad slots available during the network's broadcast of the game, sponsors have been told they must buy time in other Fox Sports content ... with emphasis placed on Fox Sports 1," according to sources cited by Brian Steinberg of VARIETY. A source said that using the Super Bowl to gain ad support for other sports properties "has become de rigeur in recent years." Both NBC and CBS "tied the purchase of Super Bowl ad time to buying a broader package of ad inventory in sports content." This wrinkle "surfaces as all the broadcasters save ABC (whose parent already owns ESPN) develop flanking sports outlets on cable." A source said that Fox is "open to the purchase of ad packages that do not include FS1, such as the Super Bowl pre-game show ... but the emerging network is getting most of the spotlight in pitches to advertisers." Sources said that as a "result of the packaging, Fox's Super Bowl ad sales may be pacing behind last year's effort from CBS." A Fox Sports spokesperson in an e-mail said, "We're anticipating a very healthy marketplace for the NY/NJ Super Bowl in 2014" (VARIETY.com, 6/17).

[tower912]

Don't worry, football is going to collapse any day now and people will flock to hoops. 

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-lem-barney-20130618,0,4600232.story?track=rss

[ChicosBailBonds]

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-lem-barney-20130618,0,4600232.story?track=rss

I read it yesterday and had to chuckle.  Mr. Barney apparently needs to get caught up on the financial side of things.  Here we are in 2013 and boxing is still alive, MMA, etc.....let alone stadiums holding 90K+, billions of dollars in contracts, etc.   Not going anywhere.

[MU82]

I wouldn't worry. We're in the Bigs with Fox. I would worry if we were not on Fox.

I'm only worried that I won't be able to watch streaming games like I could these last couple of years on ESPN3. I hope like heck Fox will have an equivalent because I've gotten really spoiled!

[nathanziarek]

I'm only worried that I won't be able to watch streaming games like I could these last couple of years on ESPN3. I hope like heck Fox will have an equivalent because I've gotten really spoiled!

Completely agree. I'd find it really odd for a *new* channel to launch in 2013 and not have a really strong online/streaming component, but I wouldn't be shocked. They'll have to play nice with the distributors and advertisers to make a go of it.

As for ratings outlook, I can see the concern and really have to hope Fox is out to punch ESPN in the mouth. That means advertising the new network during NFL games, the Super Bowl, and any other big event Fox broadcasts.

It'll be interesting. Seems to me Fox wasn't supposed to be able to compete when they got the NFL contract. They're doing alright now!

[ChicosBailBonds]

I'm only worried that I won't be able to watch streaming games like I could these last couple of years on ESPN3. I hope like heck Fox will have an equivalent because I've gotten really spoiled!

I'm spending the next three days with them in Vegas....I'll get the low down on streaming for you.

[willie warrior]

Are you speaking of Notre Dame's last game in January?

Keefe: you should be reading the tea leaves. When the PC preachers like Costas, Wilbon, etc. get on the football needs to be legislated for violence kick, and Goodell putting skirts on the QB's, and college administrators being even more PC than Costas, the inevitable collapse of football is out there within the next decade. Then they need to go after NASCAR--how about those terrible crashes and lack of female drivers? And finally thoroughbred horse racing: after all think of the cruelty to those horses.