SpringFB vs MLS tv ratings

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What's not to follow?

FOX takes the home team, and it ends up with the added benefit of being a 2-0 matchup

Then they take the highest profile coaching matchup available, as well as the best QB initially coming into the league--who needs a bounce-back game.

So you're left with two, and the highest profile coach (Fisher) gets the cable spot. And now you have the "benefit" of the two UBF stars (but in actuality Mich was a local ratings hit in week one, week two TBD)

Leaving Phi/NJ "odd teams out", it's just for one week it'll be okay. This was decided weeks ago, and you have a problem with it now?
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MGB01 wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 7:44 pm What's not to follow?

FOX takes the home team, and it ends up with the added benefit of being a 2-0 matchup

Then they take the highest profile coaching matchup available, as well as the best QB initially coming into the league--who needs a bounce-back game.

So you're left with two, and the highest profile coach (Fisher) gets the cable spot. And now you have the "benefit" of the two UBF stars (but in actuality Mich was a local ratings hit in week one, week two TBD)

Leaving Phi/NJ "odd teams out", it's just for one week it'll be okay. This was decided weeks ago, and you have a problem with it now?
No I just noticed it now. Still seems like NBC should have gone for the 2 biggest markets.
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If Detroit had the viewers, assuming they carried them into week two--market size regardless, they did.
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MGB01 wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 9:43 pm If Detroit had the viewers, assuming they carried them into week two--market size regardless, they did.
He's another thing - Mets vs Phillies on FS1 at 7pm - same markets. They should swap the 2:30pm and 8pm games.
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SpringFB vs MLS and MLB ratings too

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Good article with info on all the sports happening during prior week. Including NBA competition having strong weekend and MLB / NHL - see below:

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2022/0 ... -mlb-usfl/

>> Sunday Night Baseball only MLB window cracking 300K mark

Brewers-Phillies averaged a 0.7 rating and 1.11 million viewers on last weekend’s edition of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, down sharply from Padres-Dodgers on ESPN and ESPN2 on the same weekend last year (2.01M*). With ESPN’s regular season coverage now consisting almost solely of Sunday night games, no other MLB window over the past two weeks has cracked the 300,000 viewer mark. FS1 drew a 0.12 and 202,000 for White Sox-Twins last weekend, while TBS drew 206,000 and 234,000 for its two Tuesday night games over that span (Mets-Cardinals this past week and Braves-Dodgers the week prior) — an actual improvement over its season premiere (Padres-Giants: 173K).

Outside of Sunday Night Baseball, no MLB game over that two-week time period has averaged as many viewers as ESPN’s Virginia Tech-Tennessee college softball game on April 21 (343K) — which aired in the window once occupied by Wednesday Night Baseball.

The second weekend of the USFL averaged 661,000 viewers according to Sports Business Journal, down 57% from Week 1 (1.57M). That compares to a 69% decline from Week 1 to Week 2 of the Alliance of American Football in 2019 (from 1.95M to 607K) and a 34% drop from Week 1 to Week 2 of the XFL reboot two years ago (from 3.12 to 2.05M). … Rangers-Bruins drew a 0.45 rating and 774,000 viewers in the season finale of ABC Hockey Saturday last weekend, marking the eighth-straight NHL game on broadcast television with fewer than one million viewers. ABC will not carry another NHL game until Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final June 18. TNT drew a 0.26 and 433,000 for its Penguins-Flyers season finale the following day. ESPN wrapped up its regular season slate with 337,000 for Oilers-Penguins and 335,000 for Blues-Avalanche on Tuesday. … <<

The article illustrates the NBA numbers (which were stiff competition).
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Your buddy Florio began his recap with outrage that the USFL would play two games on the same day as the draft (nevermind the fact that only one of them actually went against it), of course MLB also had a full slate; the NBA was only out because all the first round series ended; and the NHL season just wrapped up--Seattle and Winnipeg are playing a make-up game right now. Still think he's gonna be a "good cop"?

With not many head to heads against the NBA playoffs coming up, and barring any Saturday night prime time games once FOX' MLB coverage kicks off on Memorial Day weekend, the ratings "problem" will evaporate.

Yesterday was almost perfect, I'd have almost rather had that than week one. But at the same time, that eliminates the question of "Was Week 1 it?"
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Looks like overnight ratings came in under 1 million for the primetime game. A bit disappointing
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laxtreme56 wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 5:15 pm Looks like overnight ratings came in under 1 million for the primetime game. A bit disappointing

Wow that's low - but then again its the 2 smallest markets. I asked if it would be wise to put the two smallest markets in prime time for fans vs two largest - They chose the former, I would have gone with the later.

Where are you seeing that? EDIT- This is from Seth on USFLNewsHub

https://twitter.com/TujuMaster/status/1 ... 4773715968
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If the final number ends up at 900k-1M, not much dropoff. They can go forward with it.
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MGB01 wrote: Sun May 01, 2022 6:08 pm If the final number ends up at 900k-1M, not much dropoff. They can go forward with it.
I'm sure. But they need to leverage the big 3 TV markets - NY/NJ, Philly, Houston, and larger markets TB, Michigan to get viewers. Its how XFL did it (vs AAF). Pitt is around 1%. And Birm / NOLA about .5-.6% each

A Philly - NJ game would be 8 times the HH market share size vs NOLA/Birm -
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