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TVbytheNumbers 9:21am via TV by the Numbers Top-Rated Stanley Cup Final Game Five in Fourteen Years in Metered Market Households http://t.co/cG9AAiCKfD
TVbytheNumbers 9:21am via TV by the Numbers Top-Rated Stanley Cup Final Game Five in Fourteen Years in Metered Market Households http://t.co/cG9AAiCKfD
- The top five markets for last night's Stanley Cup Final Game 2 were: Los Angeles, 12.4; New York, 10.4; Buffalo, 9.2; Boston, 6.3; Minneapolis-St. Paul, 6.3.
Looks like Detroit tuned out the NHL Playoffs after the Wings were eliminated in the First Round, which is not a good sign for the league.
What makes it such a bad sign? It's not that big of a market in the grand scheme of things. It's far less important than Boston, Chicago, Philly...
It's the #12 market in the country, Boston is the #10 market and Philly the #8 market. How is it "far less important"?
It's the #12 market in the country, Boston is the #10 market and Philly the #8 market. How is it "far less important"?
What makes it such a bad sign? It's not that big of a market in the grand scheme of things. It's far less important than Boston, Chicago, Philly...
So what's your point?I lived in the city for over a decade, and now live in the suburbs.
I remember back around 2000-2003 it was easy as pie to walk up to the box office at MSG and get tickets for face value. Large swaths of empty seats. No one in New York was talking about the Rangers. Not on the radio and not in the papers.
The Rangers need to win to be relevant in the city, to even be talked about in the media at all. And even then when they're in the playoffs, they fall behind the Yankees/Mets scores, and whatever the Jets and Giants are doing in the offseason.
For somebody ignorant or who hates New York.Rangers are definitely not "huge" in New York. The ratings prove that.
Following are the Top 10 markets for last night’s Game 5:
Rank Market RTG
1 Los Angeles 12.4
2 New York 10.4
3 Buffalo 9.2
4 Boston 6.3
4 Minneapolis-St. Paul 6.3
6 Pittsburgh 5.5
7 Chicago 5.4
7 Providence 5.4
9 West Palm Beach 5.2
9 Las Vegas 5.2
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Last night’s Game 5 (8:13 p.m. – 12:45 a.m. ET) delivered a 3.7 HH rating and 6.0 million viewers, making it the most-watched Stanley Cup Final Game 5 since the triple-overtime fifth game of the 2008 Stanley Cup Final between Pittsburgh and Detroit (6.2 million, NBC).
Viewership was up seven percent vs. Game 5 on NBC last year between Chicago and Boston (5.6 million). It was also up a remarkable 82% compared to the fifth game of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final, which also featured the Kings (vs. Devils) and was a potential Cup-clinching game (3.3 million).
The game peaked at over 8.5 million viewers from 12-12:30 a.m. ET.
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Los Angeles delivered a 12.4 rating, ranking as the market’s second-best NHL rating ever on NBC or NBCSN and up 41% vs. Game 5 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final (8.8), which was a potential Cup-clinching game. Last night’s game trailed only the Cup-clinching Game 6 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Final (13.6) as the most-watched in the L.A. market’s history for an NHL game on NBC or NBCSN.
New York also scored its second-best NHL rating ever on NBC or NBCSN with a 10.4 rating. It only trailed another double-overtime game, Game 2 of this series, by a tenth of a rating point (10.5).
Looks like Detroit tuned out the NHL Playoffs after the Wings were eliminated in the First Round, which is not a good sign for the league.
NBC regularly loses a decent portion of the Detroit market to CBC, so that's really no surprise.
Detroit still watches... They just watch a higher quality broadcast.
I didn't realise there was much of a difference. How does Philly jump Dallas, Houston, D.C. and San Francisco from radio to TV?
So what's your point?
The mainstream NY media doesn't cover the Rangers much unless they are a contender?
Pretty much the same thing in every big market.
Also, pre lockout the NHL got the back page a lot more, hopefully this Rangers run can help out.
In any event, the Rangers don't need much local media coverage because their fanbase is huge. That was my point.
NY is a great hockeytown, period.
They have other things going on unlike Buffalo...oh and the Rangers drew outstanding during the dark years from 1997-2004.
See the attendance database.
Buffalo was drawing 13,000 then.
For somebody ignorant or who hates New York.
In reality, no.
The Rangers are huge.
The lockout caused a drop in mainstream coverage which the finals runs has helped but in any event.
The Rangers have the most loyal base in New York and are always relevant, when a contender, the whole city including non-hockey fans pull behind them.