LadyStanley
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kings-stanley-cup-dominance-stalls-710748
Kings dominance (up 3-0 in SCF) has "stalled" ratings.
Kings dominance (up 3-0 in SCF) has "stalled" ratings.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/kings-stanley-cup-dominance-stalls-710748
Kings dominance (up 3-0 in SCF) has "stalled" ratings.
The game is Friday as CBC is running a World Cup soccer game on Saturday night.
A Stanley Cup Final game (not to mention a potential Cup-clinching game) bumped for soccer? That's terrible.
This isn't England. Who cares?
Oh look, suddenly the anti-Philadelphia crowd is very quiet. A 4.1 in Philadelphia is a little over 182,000 viewers.
48 hrs ago, i was envious of the nba. they had a great series at 1-1 and nhl had it at 3-0 and going for the sweep. now both are 3-1 and both favs going home. so who knows, if NYR win FRI and SA win gm 5, NHL will be the only series left and it'll be a doozy and now we'll have a great chance at breaking the all time record and it's on NBC.. woohoo... oh, and if NYR win at home gm 6, guess what?? we're going to gm 7 of the SC finals.. how great would that be?? nba is well over and nhl in a gm 7. ok, i think i am jumping too much ahead, huh? i'll keep quiet and not jinx it.
LETS GO RANGERS!!!
Yeah, Chicago's not tuning in, sorry. Hawks are done = hockey is over for 95% of the people here.
Boggles my mind that cities stop tuning in to the game they "supposedly love" after there own team goes out. Nothing beats playoff hockey, even if your team is not in it anymore.
I think this is the NHL's biggest hurdle. Even John Collins has mentioned that NHL fans are very "tribal", and basically stop watching hockey once their team is done. I'm not sure what they can do, perhaps take a page out of the NBA's book and use their star players to attract casual fans to games outside of their own team.
It is more so in the NHL.With the exception of the NFL, every sport has become tribal now.
"Winning Hawks Town" but not a hockey town. The Hawks attendance problems aren't confined to the pre-Kane and Toews years you know. Back in the late 1970's they might only draw 8,000 or 9,000 to Chicago Stadium when they lost pre-Denis Savard and Doug Wilson. They are just like New York and don't pay attention to the NHL when the local team is long gone
You are wrong. The Rangers are huge in New York. Their fans are far more loyal than any US fanbase, way more than Boston.It's not just ethnic minorities. There are plenty of white sports fans in all U.S. markets for whom hockey is simply not part of their sports equation.
If you get most of your sports info from ESPN and sports radio then in most U.S. markets you will barely notice hockey.
Additionally, the Rangers have never been as big a part of the NYC sports scene as the Bruins are in Boston, the Wings in Detroit or even the Hawks in Chicago. The Rangers were kind of the redheaded stepchild of the Original Six for a long time.
You realize that a 10.5 in NY is over one million viewers right? And a 4.8, for the SCF, on a Saturday night is very good even with the Belmont lead in, better than just "okay". People need to realize the NHL cannot match the NBA regardless of the matchup, but even still...ratings have been moving in the right direction since the 2008 playoffs, the LA/NJ SCF being the one outlier, and this is very encouraging for the league going forward.
You are wrong and ignorant. The Rangers are huge in New York. Their fans are far more loyal than any US fanbase, way more than Boston.
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.
Didn't know there was so many transplanted New Yorkers living in Philadelphia or those who live in Philly who think they really are the 6th Borough of New York.
The CBC wanted it that way. The same thing has happened with the Winter Olympics in having games scheduled earlier on Sat.A Stanley Cup Final game (not to mention a potential Cup-clinching game) bumped for soccer? That's terrible.
This isn't England. Who cares?
If this game doesn't peak at over 10M it will never happen
LA gets 10% less than 2012 game clincher. i expected 20%-30% more. oh well.. but i can't wait to see what this exciting game peaked at in OT.. i'm hoping a great #.
NBCSportsPR @NBCSportsPR 10m
LA drew 12.4 rating, ranking as LA’s 2nd-best rating ever on NBC/NBCSN, trailing clinching Gm6 of 2012 SCF (13.6) & up 41% vs 2012 Gm5 (8.8)
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NBCSportsPR @NBCSportsPR 12m
New York delivered its second best NHL rating ever on NBC/NBCSN w 10.4 rating, behind only Saturday’s Game 2
of the series (10.5).
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NBCSportsPR @NBCSportsPR 13m
The 4.6 overnight was up +15% from last year’s SCF Game 5 w Bos/Chi (4.0) & +77% from 2012 (2.6), which also featured LA Kings (vs Devils)
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NBCSportsPR @NBCSportsPR 16m
With 4.6 overnight rating, last night’s Game 5 ranks as best SCF Game 5 in 14 years, since 2000 on ABC (Dallas/NJ 3OT: 5.3)
If this game doesn't peak at over 10M it will never happen