Part of it this year may be having to compressed a schedule because of both Covid and the olympics. Wednesdaya are still fairly light as Sportsnet still has exclusivity that day of the week in Canada for the 7pm slot. If you look at the schedule Wednesdays in the second half (when TNT does doubleheader’s post AEW move) are mostly the Sportsnet game, the TNT slate and maybe one extra night slot. Tuesdays/Thursdays are the traditional heavy schedule nights in the league, so probably difficult to clear those for ESPN.
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Part of it this year may be having to compressed a schedule because of both Covid and the olympics. Wednesdaya are still fairly light as Sportsnet still has exclusivity that day of the week in Canada for the 7pm slot. If you look at the schedule Wednesdays in the second half (when TNT does doubleheader’s post AEW move) are mostly the Sportsnet game, the TNT slate and maybe one extra night slot. Tuesdays/Thursdays are the traditional heavy schedule nights in the league, so probably difficult to clear those for ESPN.
Seems intermission will now be almost must see! Who would've ever thought? (But I still did manage to enjoy Kathryn and Liam and the others most of the time on NBC(SN).)
Maybe even a thread dedicated to what's talked about or joked about during intermissions on these national games could be added if necessary, now or later.
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| 3 | NHL REGULAR SEASON L: NY RANGERS/WASHINGTON | TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION | 7:40 PM | 154 | 0.32 | 817 |
| 21 | NHL REGULAR SEASON L: CHICAGO/COLORADO | TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION | 10:14 PM | 159 | 0.17 | 522 |
| 28 | NHL RS PREGAME | TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION | 7:00 PM | 40 | 0.15 | 430 |
| 147 | NHL RS POSTGAME | TURNER NETWORK TELEVISION | 12:53 AM | 30 | 0.03 | 128 |
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Really solid numbers for day 2! Much better product from both ESPN and TNT! Once TNT gets the 7pm Wednesday timeslot back starting next season we could see a very solid increase in regular season ratings!
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Awesome start, especially with baseball playoffs in full swing. Curious to see what it looks like once NBA starts.
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Well ESPN will get no games after the 26 until january and TNT has only games at 10 also until january so the ratings are going down probably for a while but the finish of the season should be intresting
My thoughts as well the start was always gonna get off hot with the new move to Turner and back with ESPN people were gonna tune in. It's the honeymoon phase. IMO more telling even besides the NBA starting and grabbing away attention especially with ESPN will be year 2 and 3. As much as the last 1 1/2 seasons have been outliers this year will be one as well on the more positive side. The hope is that the first few games usher a new era of NHL popularity only time will tell.
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I can't remember many if any we are really in kind of new windows as far as comparisons, lots of variables new deal with new broadcasters, nostalgia, coming off COVID. As they say in politics with polling A LOT of noise right now, I think that these are positives but yeah lets go with the wait and see approach we are mainly taking right now on the board. I actually listened to that Sports Media Watch Podcast that someone posted talking about the NHL new deal and viewership and they were spot on sort of echoed this is the "honeymoon period".
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Are at least some of the games on ESPN, TNT, and/or TBS blacked out in the territories of the participating teams?
All of ESPN and Turner’s broadcasts (that they produce obviously) are exclusive to them (I.e no shared regional coverage).
At least ESPN, TNT and TBS are more widely available than NBCSN (which will soon shut down).
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Not as much as you think. NBCSN is in about 79 million homes, ESPN is about 86 million (as of two years ago so the numbers may be closer), TNT in the most with 89 million.
Post Comcast-NBC merger NBCSN has been on the most popular tier with most cable systems, particularly after it added the Premier League and NASCAR to join hockey (obviously hockey left which is the biggest reason it is closing down).
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Yes but TNT will have the AEW lead in that has been steady at one million for some weeks now that's a lot more that what they got at NBCSN. I do agree that there will be a drop.
558,000 for Islanders-Blackhawks last night on ESPN
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| 12 | NHL REGULAR SEASON L: NY ISLANDERS/CHICAGO | ESPN | 8:00 PM | 164 | 0.21 | 558 |
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10 other NHL games as well. That said it is in line with what exclusive in both markets would get on NBCSN.
Why doesn't the NHL do what the NBA does and give ESPN/TNT exclusive nights rather than having 10 other games playing? Last week they did that on ESPN and the numbers were good. I bet the TNT numbers will be better tonight than ESPNs.
On a side note the NBA has definitely surpassed the MLB in America when regular season NBA game 1 of 82 is barely beaten out by both ALCS and NLCS.
On a side note the NBA has definitely surpassed the MLB in America when regular season NBA game 1 of 82 is barely beaten out by both ALCS and NLCS.
Yeah until the NBA TV contract comes for up renewal - they will get paid more than the MLB. Seemed like ESPN wanted less MLB games this round of tv contract.
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