BobcatAttack.com - For Fans of Ohio University Sports

Welcome Guest!
Create an Account

site search

where to watch

about us

advertise with us

help

BobcatAttack.com Message Board

Ohio Football

Topic: TV viewers

Topic: TV viewers

Author

Message

Alan Swank
General User

Member Since: 12/11/2004
Location: Athens, OH
Post Count: 7,108

Status: Offline

TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 12:37:16 PM

403K watched our TV game versus Purdue on FS1. 966K watched Oklahoma State vs. South Alabama on ESPN2 at the same time. Can someone who knows the industry shed some light on the significance of those numbers?

Deciduous Forest Cat
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Location: Ohio
Post Count: 4,411

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 3:35:36 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

This is just idle speculation, but I would venture that espn2 is in at least twice as many households. I would also bet that the advertisers for the espn2 time slot paid more than twice as much as those for fs1.

UpSan Bobcat
General User

Member Since: 8/30/2005
Location: Upper Sandusky, OH
Post Count: 3,800

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 4:27:05 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

Actually, they have pretty similar household reaches. ESPN2 is in just a tiny number more homes. They are both in nearly every cable package. The difference is the perception. Many people don't even know they have FS1.

Alan Swank
General User

Member Since: 12/11/2004
Location: Athens, OH
Post Count: 7,108

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 6:13:43 PM

What I was getting at was this - are those good numbers or at least good enough to warrant playing on Friday night?

cc-cat
General User

Member Since: 4/5/2006
Location: matthews, NC
Post Count: 3,904

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 6:31:16 PM

Out of football season FS1 often shows UFC fights in that time slot. We appear to have pulled 3 times more viewers than the fights. So from FS1's view it is definitely worth it. Showing "off conference" games turn a good profit. As a fan in the Carolinas I liked it. Can't speak for others.

Speaker of Truth
General User

Member Since: 1/26/2011
Post Count: 441

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 6:42:37 PM

ESPN or ESPN 2 are the premier channels you want to be on. They always have been. More people watch those channels out of habit and thus get much better ratings and opportunity to promote their games. Those seem like decent ratings. Friday night is a bad TV night. The value of this is mostly monetary from the TV deal. Casual viewers is just a small add on.

Alan Swank
General User

Member Since: 12/11/2004
Location: Athens, OH
Post Count: 7,108

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 6:48:53 PM

cc-cat wrote:

Good point about alums around the country and even in Athens. I enjoyed watching too but had it been on Saturday, we had rooms reserved for Friday and Saturday for 10 months just like we did for Tennessee. Already got rooms for UVA next year. That should be a great trip.

bobcatsquared
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Post Count: 5,296

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 8:11:20 PM

Alan Swank wrote:

Already got rooms for UVA next year. That should be a great trip.

Alan Swank in Charlottesville. I can see the headlines now.

ytownbobcat
General User

Member Since: 8/7/2006
Post Count: 1,253

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/13/2017 9:03:05 PM

This is probably reported elsewhere but we were told that Purdue hosted a double or triple header for High School football at their stadium last Saturday.
Always though that Friday was high school football night and NCAA tried to shy away from competing.
TV seems to rule the roost so the high school showcase Saturday games were a nice tradeoff.
Not sure of the dynamics of what game goes on what network. Hopefully not too many people saw the second quarter of our game.

Ohio69
General User

Member Since: 12/20/2004
Post Count: 3,034

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/14/2017 8:31:50 AM

Alan Swank wrote:

What I was getting at was this - are those good numbers or at least good enough to warrant playing on Friday night?

The only numbers that matter are on the check Purdue received from FS1.

Last Edited: 9/14/2017 8:32:07 AM by Ohio69

Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

OU_Country
General User

Member Since: 12/6/2005
Location: On the road between Athens and Madison County
Post Count: 8,351

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/14/2017 12:27:41 PM

bobcatsquared wrote:

Alan Swank wrote:

Already got rooms for UVA next year. That should be a great trip.

Alan Swank in Charlottesville. I can see the headlines now.

If you like to drink beer or wine, Charlottesville is a fantastic area. I may have to look into this one. Many of the wineries in the area are truly outstanding, and there are 2-3 great breweries, along with the downtown outdoor "mall".

Pataskala
General User

Member Since: 7/8/2010
Location: At least six feet away from anybody else
Post Count: 9,340

Status: Offline

RE: TV viewers

Posted: 9/14/2017 9:02:42 PM

We were the 21st most watched game last week, ahead of Indiana-UVA, Houston-Ariz, ECU-WVU and Northwestern-Duke. We had less than half the viewers of the previous week's game in that time slot, Wash-Rutgers. But they didn't have to compete with blow by blow coverage of Irma, so it's tough to compare.

My guess is that we beat our ESPN3 audiences by 300,000.

We will get by.
We will get by.
We will get by.
We will survive.

Showing Replies:	1 - 12 of 12 Posts
Jump to Page:	1

View Other 'Ohio Football' Topics

There are 268 Active Visitors on BobcatAttack.com

268 Guests
0 Registered Users

There are no other users looking at this page.