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| -Short Attention Span Theater- |
| Bowl TV ratings take a dive in 2015 |
| 2016-01-03 |
| I normally regard anything written by Dan Wetzel to be the opposite of the truth, but he brings out a subtle point: the College Playoff System is a disaster in only its second year. College Football Playoff executives said they were going to change the paradigm of New Year's Eve in America and instead Americans changed the paradigm of the College Football Playoff. Many of them didn't watch. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #8 Well, yes - when you're covering everything but sports. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-01-03 15:44 |
| #7 ESPN's ratings have been falling |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-01-03 13:01 |
| #6 #1 and #2 are on it - too many bowl games and at unwatchable times if you have a job There's another dimension to this as well. 85 percent of bowl games this year are on ESPN or ESPN 2 cable channels. That is cutting out a large portion of your potential audience. It seems to me that ABC is trying to up its carry fees for cable operators by restricting good/pivotal games to cable and lesser games on broadcast. Seems to me you can screw your audience for so long until they find something else to watch. Even if bowl games were on during the week, which they have been in the run up to the BCS showing them on cable is a losing deal. |
| Posted by: badanov 2016-01-03 12:32 |
| #5 #1 and #2 are on it - too many bowl games and at unwatchable times if you have a job |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-01-03 11:58 |
| #4 MLB and NBA ruined themselves by diluting the season and now the NFL is headed the same way. The money machine keeps spinning nevertheless. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-01-03 11:48 |
| #3 Swirling around the bowl. There - someone had to say it... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2016-01-03 11:26 |
| #2 Oklahoma vs Clemson started at 3:30 on a WORK day. How can anyone expect to attract viewers? A lotta folks prolly called in sick that day, I s'pect. I got off early coz Bossman wanted to be in front of the TV at 1530. |
| Posted by: badanov 2016-01-03 10:43 |
| #1 Oklahoma vs Clemson started at 3:30 on a WORK day. How can anyone expect to attract viewers? |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2016-01-03 10:40 |