“Fall” 2021 TV Viewership

[awhom111]

1/21 Louisville-North Carolina State ESPN 364,000

 

[awhom111]

1/27 Ole Miss-South Carolina ESPN 405,000

 

[visitingcock]

1/27 Ole Miss-South Carolina ESPN 405,000

This probably would have been higher if it had been UConn at South Carolina. Even so, the eyeballs were still jacked up because of the Committee Reveal at halftime.

 

[CTrefugee]

The Top Dozen most watched NCAA womens’s basketball game ( correct me if I missed) were.

1. UCONN-UCLA (ABC) 839,000

2. SCar - NCState (ESPN) 506,000

3. SCar - UCONN (ESPN) 489,000

4. Stanford - Tenn (ESPN2) 365,000

5. Stanford -SCar (ESPN2) 314,000

6. Louisville -UCONN (ESPN) 281,000

7. Kentucky- Louisville (ESPN) 280,000

T Michigan v Louisville (ESPN) 280,000

9. Baylor - Michigan (ESPN) 242,000

10. Maryland - SCar (ESPN) 235,000

11. Texas - Tenn (ESPN) 232,000

12. UConn -GaTech (ESPN) 222,000

Notes:

• Big 4 network coverage by ABC turns up big with number one viewed game
• number 3 ranked game was in a bad (Monday noon) TV time slot.
• UConn & SCar each involved in 4 of 12 top games
• only UConn & SCar garnered 1 million+ eyeballs
• UConn garnered the most eyeballs in these 12 games.
• consistency of eyeballs on Louisville is amazing!

Overall, the numbers are discouragingly small. Considering the size of UCONNS following in CT, I would expect more. Does anyone have SNY numbers ? Also, are these numbers the total viewers? If someone tumes in for 10 minutes, how does that count?

 

[awhom111]

1/30 Duke-Louisville ESPN 224,000
1/31 Ohio State-Iowa Big Ten Network 164,000

Overall, the numbers are discouragingly small. Considering the size of UCONNS following in CT, I would expect more. Does anyone have SNY numbers ? Also, are these numbers the total viewers? If someone tumes in for 10 minutes, how does that count?

SNY sometimes reports their own numbers if they are good.

These numbers are average viewers (based on their viewer sample and not attempting to find out what everybody in the United States is watching). If ten minutes was a tenth of the game, that would be the equivalent of a tenth of a viewer.

 

[awhom111]

2/3 Stanford-UCLA ESPN 182,000

 

[TeamFirst!]

If you look at these numbers and compared them to the social media numbers of players like Paige, the real value in many ways is their social media presence. There are some high school players in southern Cal who are now getting NIL deals. It's their social media presence as much as anything they generate in TV audiences and such. This is why some players get major deals and some get next to nothing. The time they spend developing their PR and social media presence is well spent.

 

[visitingcock]

1/30 Duke-Louisville ESPN 224,000
1/31 Ohio State-Iowa Big Ten Network 164,000


SNY sometimes reports their own numbers if they are good.

These numbers are average viewers (based on their viewer sample and not attempting to find out what everybody in the United States is watching). If ten minutes was a tenth of the game, that would be the equivalent of a tenth of a viewer.

Is the Ohio State - Iowa game the biggest Conference Network game of the year?

 

[Skeets]

The numbers, which all end in ",000", are projections off of a relatively small audience base. If the numbers were actual viewers you would not expect all of them to end in 000. The numbers are an indicator, not an actual fact, which is about as good as it's going to get. I'm guessing that they get fairly sophisticated with the audience base to make the projection. Any network people out there to shed some more light on this?

 

[awhom111]

2/4 Texas-Baylor ESPN2 258,000

Is the Ohio State - Iowa game the biggest Conference Network game of the year?

Apparently it is the biggest number of all time. FOX pays for Big Ten Network to be rated, unlike ESPN's choice not to pay for the channels it owns in their entirety, SEC Network, ACC Network, and Longhorn Network so I suppose we will never know.

The numbers, which all end in ",000", are projections off of a relatively small audience base. If the numbers were actual viewers you would not expect all of them to end in 000. The numbers are an indicator, not an actual fact, which is about as good as it's going to get. I'm guessing that they get fairly sophisticated with the audience base to make the projection. Any network people out there to shed some more light on this?

Yes, there is a lot of work to get a representative sample, and just as importantly, try to utilize technology to make sure that the sample people are actually watching, unlike social media views that include autoplays and people who start watching, but leave their device with it still playing. I am not sure what the current equivalent of one person in the sample watching an entire event is in terms of estimated viewers. A lot of people are conceptually annoyed by the use of a sample, but I wonder if they would really accept technology spying on them to determine exactly what they are actually watching and not just what is playing on their device.

 

[TeamFirst!]

Neilsen used to be the major ratings service and that included sample boxes so it's statistical sampling with a significant enough sample size to approximate to the thousands. I haven't been involved for many years though so it's probably changed. There are probably several major services now but Neilsen was considered the best as they knew exactly what people were watching and when they changed the channel. Most major Cable TV and satellite programming services are digital with a sweep every few seconds to determine viewership. Such services are relatively accurate because it's very important to have good numbers for advertising decisions.

Now can someone tell me where to go for player +/- statistics? I'm not seeing that data in google searches.

 

[TeamFirst!]

Trust me, if you are watching on the internet, via a satellite feed or on cable they know who's watching or at least what each location is watching. Since you often have to log in to things like foxsports.com they know YOU are watching. With modern TV's they probably have some access to similar data as well.

 

[UConnCat]

 

[Stoli]

 

[eebmg]

Before the TN fans through a brick through their TV?

 

[visitingcock]

1. UConn-UCLA (ABC) 839,000

2. Tenn at UConn (Fox) 694,000

3. SCar - NCState (ESPN) 506,000

4. SCar - UConn (ESPN) 489,000
5. Ole Miss-SCar (ESPN) 405,000

6. Stanford - Tenn (ESPN2) 365,000
7. Louisville- NC State (ESPN) 364,000
8. Stanford -SCar (ESPN2) 314,000

9. Kentucky - SCar (ESPN) 294,000
10. Louisville -UConn (ESPN) 281,000
11. Kentucky- Louisville (ESPN) 280,000
12. Michigan v Louisville (ESPN) 280,000
13. Texas - Baylor ( ESPN 2 ) 258,000

14. Baylor - Michigan (ESPN) 242,000
15. Maryland - SCar (ESPN) 235,000
16. Texas - Tenn (ESPN) 232,000
17. Duke - Louisville (ESPN) 224,000
18. UConn -GaTech (ESPN) 222,000
19. UConn - Oregon (ESPN) 211,000

Unless I missed one/some:

Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched UConn (including UConn v. SCar) 2,736,000 eyeballs
Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched SCar (ditto) 2,243, 000 eyeballs
Louisville draws some eyeballs too. (5 games; 1,065,000)

8 of the TV audiences over 200,00 watched games not involving SCar or UConn.

Conclusion: UConn good for TV
SCar (or the number one team perhaps) good for TV.
Louisville up and comer!

PAC: Ya'll did fire Larry Scott, didn't you? Get a TV package!



Of course there were an abundance of games viewed by less than 200,000. I'm just looking at the "big ones."

 

[Vowelguy]

1. UConn-UCLA (ABC) 839,000

2. Tenn at UConn (Fox) 694,000

3. SCar - NCState (ESPN) 506,000

4. SCar - UConn (ESPN) 489,000
5. Ole Miss-SCar (ESPN) 405,000

6. Stanford - Tenn (ESPN2) 365,000
7. Louisville- NC State (ESPN) 364,000
8. Stanford -SCar (ESPN2) 314,000

9. Kentucky - SCar (ESPN) 294,000
10. Louisville -UConn (ESPN) 281,000
11. Kentucky- Louisville (ESPN) 280,000
12. Michigan v Louisville (ESPN) 280,000
13. Texas - Baylor ( ESPN 2 ) 258,000

14. Baylor - Michigan (ESPN) 242,000
15. Maryland - SCar (ESPN) 235,000
16. Texas - Tenn (ESPN) 232,000
17. Duke - Louisville (ESPN) 224,000
18. UConn -GaTech (ESPN) 222,000
19. UConn - Oregon (ESPN) 211,000

Unless I missed one/some:

Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched UConn (including UConn v. SCar) 2,736,000 eyeballs
Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched SCar (ditto) 2,243, 000 eyeballs
Louisville draws some eyeballs too. (5 games; 1,065,000)

8 of the TV audiences over 200,00 watched games not involving SCar or UConn.

Conclusion: UConn good for TV
SCar (or the number one team perhaps) good for TV.
Louisville up and comer!

PAC: Ya'll did fire Larry Scott, didn't you? Get a TV package!



Of course there were an abundance of games viewed by less than 200,000. I'm just looking at the "big ones."

UConn 6
sc 6
Lou 5
Tenn 3
NCSt, Stan, bay, Tex, Mich, ky 2
Ucla, md, gat, ore, Duke, Miss 1

sec 12
ACC 9
Bge 6
PAC 4
B12 4
B10 3

 

[awhom111]

2/6 Tennessee-UConn FOX 658,000
2/6 Texas A&M-Kentucky ESPN2 125,000
2/6 Creighton-Marquette FS1 86,000
2/6 Baylor-Texas ESPN2 160,000
2/6 Iowa-Michigan Big Ten Network 130,000

Trust me, if you are watching on the internet, via a satellite feed or on cable they know who's watching or at least what each location is watching. Since you often have to log in to things like foxsports.com they know YOU are watching. With modern TV's they probably have some access to similar data as well.

Yes, but they do not know how many people are watching or if the people are actually watching and not just leaving the feed on somewhere, which is how a lot of fans of music and television are now trying to do to keep their favorites scoring well. Nielsen's measuring devices have the viewers confirm their viewing regularly.

Unless I missed one/some:

Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched UConn (including UConn v. SCar) 2,736,000 eyeballs
Six of the TV audiences over 200,000 watched SCar (ditto) 2,243, 000 eyeballs
Louisville draws some eyeballs too. (5 games; 1,065,000)

Shouldn't you multiply by two for eyeball counts?

 

[visitingcock]

A little curious what the halftime reveal will do to the numbers for SCar/KY tonight. Numbers were pretty good for the first game, but not very close to the Miss/SCar reveal game.

 

[visitingcock]

On Feb. 20, 2022, ABC will broadcast the Tenn game at Scar at 1:00 pm. Preceding the game at noon, ABC will conduct its Gameday from the Carolina Colonial Life Center.

This will be the first Gameday broadcast from a wbb game in 11 years. That last broadcast was from a UConn v. Tennessee game

 

[awhom111]

2/10 South Carolina-Kentucky ESPN 402,000

 

[MSGRET]

On Feb. 20, 2022, ABC will broadcast the Tenn game at Scar at 1:00 pm. Preceding the game at noon, ABC will conduct its Gameday from the Carolina Colonial Life Center.

This will be the first Gameday broadcast from a wbb game in 11 years. That last broadcast was from a UConn v. Tennessee game

I thought they did one on 2/9/15 at SC when they were ranked #1 and UConn was #2 and Stewie and Co. proceeded with a 87-62 drumming. That was after everyone on the panel was saying that SC will win.

 

[visitingcock]

I thought they did one on 2/9/15 at SC when they were ranked #1 and UConn was #2 and Stewie and Co. proceeded with a 87-62 drumming. That was after everyone on the panel was saying that SC will win.

According to SCar news sources, we have never hosted Gameday. That was a hyped game but not Gameday. The last that I know of was UConn/Tennessee 11 years ago.

Hope that ESPN/ABC will do at least one each year going forward!

 

[UConnCat]

According to SCar news sources, we have never hosted Gameday. That was a hyped game but not Gameday. The last that I know of was UConn/Tennessee 11 years ago.

Hope that ESPN/ABC will do at least one each year going forward!

UConn didn't play Tennessee 11 years ago. Summitt ended the series after the 2007 season. The men's Gameday show (Bilas, etc) did its Saturday morning show from Gampel on January 16, 2010 and then UConn played Notre Dame during the Saturday night slot on ESPN typically reserved for men's games. Dan Schulman, Dick Vitale and Doris Burke were the broadcast team for the game.

Perhaps Tennessee subsequently hosted the Gameday show as well but it was not before a UConn game.

 

[UConnCat]

UConn didn't play Tennessee 11 years ago. Summitt ended the series after the 2007 season. The men's Gameday show (Bilas, etc) did its Saturday morning show from Gampel on January 16, 2010 and then UConn played Notre Dame during the Saturday night slot on ESPN typically reserved for men's games. Dan Schulman, Dick Vitale and Doris Burke were the broadcast team for the game.

Perhaps Tennessee subsequently hosted the Gameday show as well but it was not before a UConn game.

Found an article from SC on this and also did a little checking.

Gameday did a show from Knoxville in 2011 as part of Tennessee's men's and women's doubleheader against Vanderbilt. The Lady Vols played Saturday night or the second game of the doubleheader. Next Sunday's Gameday show in Columbia is different than what took place in Storrs in 2010 and Knoxville in 2011. In those instances it was the Men's Gameday show (Jay Bilas, Rece Davis, etc) that did its show in connection with a women's game or, in the case of Tennessee, a men's/women's doubleheader. The women's games were broadcast during the Saturday night ESPN slot typically reserved for men's games. The men's broadcast team did the women's games. Next Sunday's Gameday show is the women's version with the normal studio host/analysts doing a pregame show on location. It's still very important and should happen every year.

From the SC article which is not entirely accurate.

College Gameday’s trip to visit Dawn Staley’s USC will be its first time making an exclusive trip to a women’s basketball game in 11 years. The show has previously highlighted UConn in 2010 and Tennessee in 2011.

Doors to Colonial Life Arena will open at 11:30 a.m. for ticket holders to attend the pregame show. College GameDay will be hosted by Elle Duncan and feature analysts Carolyn Peck, Rebecca Lobo, Holly Rowe and Andraya Carter.

Read more at: https://www.thestate.com/sports/col...asketball/article258257395.html#storylink=cpy