Anyone now need proof about Americans getting dumber?
Interesting Bobby Orr. Do you have a link?
Are those ratings for broadcast TV only or do they include cable? I think you'd also have to consider the number of broadcasts. A 2.2 rating on a cable channel for the NBA where many games are shown each week, for example, might indicate good numbers versus the NHL's 0.2 rating on cable channel Versus or 1.1 rating on NBC, which only broadcasts weekend games during the second half of the season. (Not considering Playoff ratings here.)
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Here in Boston, I'd agree that if our team was good, fans would come (back)......
The 2-0 win by Dallas [Game 6 Dallas-Vancouer, on Sat.] drew an audience of 1.545 million viewers, according to ratings released by the network Monday.
That beat out the 1.471 million people who tuned in to watch the Detroit Red Wings eliminate the Calgary Flames in double overtime Sunday night.
Game 5 between the Flames and Red Wings on Saturday afternoon was seen by an audience of 812,000.
The New Jersey Devils-Tampa Bay Lightning series had less appeal.
Only 506,000 people watched Game 5 Friday night while 529,000 viewers tuned in for Game 6
Honestly I think Americans are getting stupider.
I used to be a hardcore baseball fan up until the past few years and realized that baseball, is really a snoozer. There is no action, I think more people like it because it's engraved in them at childhood(IE: Watching the Yankees on Sunday afternoon with dad). Now that I don't play competitive baseball anymore I have no interest in it, it's just so...boring. Maybe some hardcore baseball fans here who don't play can explain the allure.
Nascar..just a bunch of cars going in circles, sometimes there are crashes but that's not action, that's sad.
The NBA is more tolerable to me than baseball, atleast there's not all this standing around, for hockey to grow I think you need to get the kids playing and watching and wait it out. The NHL for the most part doesn't have a problem drawing at the gate, perhaps more needs to be done on TV to make it feel like you are there. I would like hockey to find a way for the view to pick their own camera angles to watch the game. On Dishnetwork college football games on TBS have about 8 channels where you can watch at different angles. I wish we could figure a way to incorporate this.
Do the Versus ratings account for the fact they are in about 60 percent of homes?
Too me it's boring if people enjoy lots of standing around and cars in going in circles so be it.or maybe they just have different taste then you? ever thought of that?
From the Detroit News:
"On average, about 174,000 Metro Detroit households are watching the playoff games on FSN Detroit, a 150 percent gain from the regular season, according to Nielsen ratings released by the network.
But that's a far cry from the frenzy in 2004, when about 250,000 local households were watching the games."
This means the Red Wings averaged about 70,000 households for their regular season broadcasts (in the 11th largest city TV DMA of 1,938,320 TV households).
Full article here:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070426/SPORTS0103/704260408/1128
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The share is therefore an interesting figure, but the rating lets you know the estimated number of households that are watching a program.
Anybody seen NBC's ratings from last week....wow. Abysmal, .7 for the Tampa Bay vs. Devils game and .8 for the Detroit vs. Calgary game. How are ratings getting WORSE in the playoffs then the regular season.
DETROIT - In touting its overnight ratings for Game 1 of Sharks-Red Wings, Versus cited a 7.3 in Detroit and a 1.9 in the Bay Area. Too bad ratings aren't available for the Canadian TV coverage in the province of Newfoundland, because percentage-wise it was probably a very healthy number.
• The rating for the Buffalo Sabres’ second- round opener with the New York Rangers on Versus Wednesday was more shocking than any comment made by the Rangers’ Sean Avery.
The game had a 25.2 rating, which is about 2 1/2 times what the Sabres’ first-round series with the New York Islanders averaged on MSG even though it was competing with a two-hour edition of “American Idol†(15.9).
The Versus rating appears to confirm what local researchers have suggested — that the Sabres ratings on MSG have been badly underreported. The ratings might increase slightly in the second round, but not by that much when the channel doesn’t carry Rick Jeanneret and Jim Lorentz.
The Sabres’ clinching victory over the Islanders on April 20 had only a 9.3 rating, which was lower than the average of the previous four games. The Sabres averaged a 7.0 rating during the regular season, up about 35 percent from the 5.2 they averaged a year ago.
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• The Buffalo area greeted the NBA playoffs on ABC with a collective yawn last weekend. The game a week ago between Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O’Neal and the defending champion Miami Heat versus the Chicago Bulls had a lowly 1.3 rating on WKBW-TV. As bad as that was, it actually outdrew Sunday’s coverage of Steve Nash’s Phoenix Suns against Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers. That had a 1.1 rating.
Meanwhile, NBC’s coverage of NHL playoff games on Channel 2 last weekend did more than three times better than ABC’s coverage of the NBA playoffs on Channel 7 here.
Detroit’s victory over Calgary a week ago had a 3.3 rating on Channel 2, while New Jersey’s series victory over Tampa Bay had a 3.9 rating on Sunday.
Nationally, the results were almost the complete opposite with the NBA games getting overnight ratings of 3.9 and 2.8 and the NHL getting overnight ratings of 1.3 and .9.
The Buffalo News has some VS, FSN, and NBC figures.