2017 War On I4- Highest Intra Conference TV Rating For AAC Ever

[Drew]

ABC Airs Two Most-Viewed Black Friday Games across all Networks; Both Games Up Double-Digits for the Day - ESPN MediaZone

South Florida at UCF (3:30 p.m.) delivered a total live audience of 4,700,000 viewers, which followed Miami at Pitt (noon), a game that had total live audience of 4,663,000 viewers. In addition to being the two most-viewed games of the day, ABC was up 12% and 49%, respectively, from last year’s same Black Friday windows (Nebraska at Iowa at 3:30 p.m. and Houston at Memphis at noon).

The high-scoring, UCF victory is the most-viewed American Athletic intra-conference game ever and is ABC’s second most-watched Black Friday late afternoon game (3:30 p.m. or later) since 2005.

Locally, Orlando earned a 11.1 rating, the No. 1 rated market for the Knights’ victory. It is the second best Orlando rating for a UCF regular season game ever on ESPN’s networks. The complete top 10:

Rank Local Rating Market
1 11.1 Orlando
2 10.1 Tampa
3 7.4 West Palm Beach
4 7.0 Columbus
5 6.5 Birmingham
6 6.4 Greenville
7 6.0 Jacksonville
8 5.5 Atlanta
9 5.3 Fort Myers
5.3 Miami
5.3 Nashville

 

[Guapo]

That's a big number

 

[Adios]

These two schools are probably the biggest reasons the Big 12 did not expand.

 

[Pudge]

Where's whaler11?

See. If the P5 schools are getting $23-45m per University & the AAC are getting less than $2m (FB only), this is Arbitrage situation. While ESPN and Fox have diminishing revenue futures, there aren't a lack of viewing platforms.

So. We do agree. AAC contract will be much higher (of course the base is >$2m) and a sizable % higher. But peanuts still relative to the P5 story.

The real question ... what happens to the P5 contracts with a decade + to go to Term expiry.

 

[Guapo]

Where's whaler11?

See. If the P5 schools are getting $23-45m per University & the AAC are getting less than $2m (FB only), this is Arbitrage situation. While ESPN and Fox have diminishing revenue futures, there aren't a lack of viewing platforms.

So. We do agree. AAC contract will be much higher (of course the base is >$2m) and a sizable % higher. But peanuts still relative to the P5 story.

The real question ... what happens to the P5 contracts with a decade + to go to Term expiry.

What dollar amount would you be happy with in the next tv contract?

 

[whaler11]

Where's whaler11?

See. If the P5 schools are getting $23-45m per University & the AAC are getting less than $2m (FB only), this is Arbitrage situation. While ESPN and Fox have diminishing revenue futures, there aren't a lack of viewing platforms.

So. We do agree. AAC contract will be much higher (of course the base is >$2m) and a sizable % higher. But peanuts still relative to the P5 story.

The real question ... what happens to the P5 contracts with a decade + to go to Term expiry.

They had a good matchup in a window with no competition.

It’s a really good number but it’s one game.

I don’t believe any non cable entity wants the AAC rights. We shall see soon enough.

 

[Wordbomar]

What dollar amount would you be happy with in the next tv contract?

I think if we could close the gap and get half of what P5 gets it would be a victory

 

[Guapo]

I think if we could close the gap and get half of what P5 gets it would be a victory

Oh I'd be elated with half

 

[06029]

4th most watched game last weekend. #1 was Iron Bowl, #2 OSU/MI, #3 Stamford/ND; #5 Clemson/USC. Drops off to <4mm viewers after that. Other AAC game drew the following last week:
Navy/Houston 699k

College Football TV Ratings For Every Game - Sports Media Watch

Go thru the season. Total games with AAC teams (includes OOC games) on big boy TV thru last week: 37 games; 6 games >1 mm viewers 16%

Here are the other AAC games that drew >1 million viewers:
Navy/Notre Dame 3.203mm
UCLA/Memphis 3.238mm
ILL/USF 1.369mm
Cinci/MI 3.611m
Temple/ND 1.58mm

Compare to the rest of leagues:
SEC 59 games; 52 >1mm 88%
B1G 62 games; 45 >1mm 73%
PAC 49 games; 31>1mm 63%
Big 12 54 games; 31 >1mm 57%
ACC 55 games; 42 >1mm 76%

AAC had one great game. Good. The week to week match ups are not doing anything unless they involve a P5 team. Not sure how you extrapolate a huge bump in a media deal unless weekly the AAC starts drawing eyeballs.

Side Notes: The FS1 ratings were awful for the B1G and the Pac. The ability of the SEC, B1G, PAC and ACC to shuffle less attractive games to the conference networks helps keep the # of good games on the major channels higher. Pac ratings suffer from late time slots.

 

[UConnJim]

4th most watched game last weekend. #1 was Iron Bowl, #2 OSU/MI, #3 Stamford/ND; #5 Clemson/USC. Drops off to <4mm viewers after that. Other AAC game drew the following last week:
Navy/Houston 699k

College Football TV Ratings For Every Game - Sports Media Watch

Go thru the season. Total games with AAC teams (includes OOC games) on big boy TV thru last week: 37 games; 6 games >1 mm viewers 16%

Here are the other AAC games that drew >1 million viewers:
Navy/Notre Dame 3.203mm
UCLA/Memphis 3.238mm
ILL/USF 1.369mm
Cinci/MI 3.611m
Temple/ND 1.58mm

Compare to the rest of leagues:
SEC 59 games; 52 >1mm 88%
B1G 62 games; 45 >1mm 73%
PAC 49 games; 31>1mm 63%
Big 12 54 games; 31 >1mm 57%
ACC 55 games; 42 >1mm 76%

AAC had one great game. Good. The week to week match ups are not doing anything unless they involve a P5 team. Not sure how you extrapolate a huge bump in a media deal unless weekly the AAC starts drawing eyeballs.

Side Notes: The FS1 ratings were awful for the B1G and the Pac. The ability of the SEC, B1G, PAC and ACC to shuffle less attractive games to the conference networks helps keep the # of good games on the major channels higher. Pac ratings suffer from late time slots.

I don't think you are seeing the whole picture. Sure, the AAC is not going to draw what popular P5 programs are going to draw. Games on ESPN/CBS/ABC/NBC/FOX are going to have much higher ratings than games on ESPN2/ESPNU/ESPN News/FS1/FS2/CBSSN. Unfortunately, the AAC tends to get placed on the lesser channels.

In fact 14/37 AAC games were on ESPNU. I calculated the viewers for ACC/ACC games and AAC/AAC games on ESPNU, which is the lowest rated ESPN channel. The ACC games averaged 308k viewers and the AAC games averaged 166k. No games drew over 900k games on ESPNU this year, including Baylor/Texas (601k), Auburn/Missouri (503k), UNC/NC St (271k), Syracuse/Louisville (223k), Wake Forest/Georgia Tech (200k), Northwestern/Duke (161k).

If you looked at AAC games that drew over 500k fans, there were 14 games, which is 14/23 games not is ESPNU which is OK give how cheap the media rights are.

 

[Pudge]

Oh I'd be elated with half

1/3rd of a huge increase. That's the shock. You can't be paying Clemson - BC oodles when the UCF - USF is 1/12th in per annum.

 

[coachcap]

Just a question: Is anyone going to bid against the Mouse for the next AAC contract? Their major competition would come from Fox & Comcast-NBC. Do either of those have any interest? Last go-around, NBC's bid was a nickel & dime increase, which ESPN matched in a New York minute. What's changed in the interim to warrant a sizable increase in AAC television rights?

 

[noeynox]

Just a question: Is anyone going to bid against the Mouse for the next AAC contract? Their major competition would come from Fox & Comcast-NBC. Do either of those have any interest? Last go-around, NBC's bid was a nickel & dime increase, which ESPN matched in a New York minute. What's changed in the interim to warrant a sizable increase in AAC television rights?

What's changed or may change is streaming getting in the game. Amazing, google etc. even with that P5 contracts are likely to be for less money.

Aresco will get 1st dibs in seeing if he could get any money out of that venue.