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2024/25 Wbb TV Eyeballs

12au said:
ESPN kind of screwed B12 by tipping off 30m after B10 title game started. I feel like we could've gotten a lot more eyeballs if we delayed tip an hour or more.
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How the B1G game do? Anyone know?
 
These numbers are really encouraging to see, especially with the fact it's happening across different networks.
 
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jumpstart said:
The real deal...CBS vs ESPN. The free eyes vs paying eyes. CBS had a built-in advantage with having it on free television. That only got them 100k more viewers.
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Give ‘em time. They’re learning . Let’s see if we can get 2 million working together this Fall - for each game.
 
cancontent said:
These numbers are really encouraging to see, especially with the fact it's happening across different networks.
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jumpstart said:
The real deal...CBS vs ESPN. The free eyes vs paying eyes. CBS had a built-in advantage with having it on free television. That only got them 100k more viewers.
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Not sure the JuJu numbers are encouraging. USC v UCLA on CBS drew the same audience for the Big Ten Championship that USC versus Stanford drew last year for the PAC-12 Championship on ESPN. After season long JuJu hype, and with UCLA the opponent for round 3, I would have expected more than 1.44 million.
 
BigTenGuy said:
Not sure the JuJu numbers are encouraging. USC v UCLA on CBS drew the same audience for the Big Ten Championship that USC versus Stanford drew last year for the PAC-12 Championship on ESPN. After season long JuJu hype, and with UCLA the opponent for round 3, I would have expected more than 1.44 million.
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Some were predicting a drop off with Clark going onto the WNBA even with Juju still playing. Seeing 1M+ continue and the tournament has yet to happen is encouraging to me.
 
cancontent said:
Some were predicting a drop off with Clark going onto the WNBA even with Juju still playing. Seeing 1M+ continue and the tournament has yet to happen is encouraging to me.
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Last year was unusual, and a drop off was to be expected, but I thought the combined star power of USC, with JuJu and Kiki, and UCLA, with Betts and Rice, would minimize the magnitude of the drop off. I didn’t expect USC-UCLA to draw less than half what Iowa-Nebraska drew in the same game last year on the same network.
 
BigTenGuy said:
Last year was unusual, and a drop off was to be expected, but I thought the combined star power of USC, with JuJu and Kiki, and UCLA, with Betts and Rice, would minimize the magnitude of the drop off. I didn’t expect USC-UCLA to draw less than half what Iowa-Nebraska drew in the same game last year on the same network.
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It's hard to gauge what would considered fair for a drop considering the phenomenon of Clark. Seeing 1.4M when this game wasn't drawing 1 million people 2 to 3 years ago seems like a good thing to me.
 
BigTenGuy said:
Not sure the JuJu numbers are encouraging. USC v UCLA on CBS drew the same audience for the Big Ten Championship that USC versus Stanford drew last year for the PAC-12 Championship on ESPN. After season long JuJu hype, and with UCLA the opponent for round 3, I would have expected more than 1.44 million.
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So what you're saying is it would be in the best interests of WCBB for Stanford to return to playing in conference championships ASAP, right? :D
 
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3/6 Iowa-Michigan St. 265,000 BTN
3/7 Iowa-Ohio St. 535,000 BTN

Only BTN rankings I could find for Big Ten Tournament. Friday Iowa-OSU game is down 505,000 from 1,040,000 from Friday Iowa-PSU game last year on BTN.

By this time last year BTN had press release re tournament ratings. No press release this year = much lower ratings.
 
Somewhat interesting article re TV ratings this season. Article talks about Fox ratings being down, but would be nice to know details. Seems like Fox has failed to post ratings for many games this year. Big Ten Network also keeping a lot of viewership info close to the vest this season. Will be interesting to see UCLAs and USC’s early round viewership numbers.

www.pbs.org

Women's college basketball maintains strong TV ratings and attendance this season ahead of March Madness

ESPN will have the lion's share of tournament games again, but Fox increased its footprint in the sport with five games in primetime on Saturday nights and 18 total on the network.
www.pbs.org www.pbs.org
 
BIG Tournament Semifinals

3/8/25 Ohio State-UCLA BTN 212,000
3/8/25 Michigan-USC BTN 173,000
(per RebKell’s Junkie Boards)

Don’t know if BTN is struggling to gain viewers on the west coast, but the BIG semifinal TV ratings were sharply down from both semifinals last year, and also down from the ‘23 semifinals.

3/9/24 Maryland-Nebraska BTN 357,000
3/9/24 Michigan-Iowa BTN 1,075,000

3/4/23 Iowa-Maryland BTN 380,000
3/4/23 Ohio State-Indiana BTN 222,000
 
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bballnut90 said:
Those numbers look great if you don’t compare this year’s games to the Caitlin Clark games
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They're still great even if you factor the Clark games. The assumption was the drop off was going to be significant and that didn't happen. The ESPN numbers show growth over 2023 as well. Take it and run is what I say.
 
cancontent said:
They're still great even if you factor the Clark games. The assumption was the drop off was going to be significant and that didn't happen. The ESPN numbers show growth over 2023 as well. Take it and run is what I say.
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The growth story versus 2023 is somewhat overstated by more games being on more accessible networks in 2025 (a good thing). The Sweet 16 round in 2023 was 1 ABC game, 6 ESPN games and 1 ESPN2 game. This year the Sweet 16 round was 2 ABC games and 6 ESPN games. The claimed Sweet 16 increase of 39% over 2023 doesn’t adjust for this or methodology changes that increase viewership compared to 2023.

Similarly the Elite 8 round in 2023 was 4 ESPN games versus 2 ABC and 2 ESPN this year. Not sure the ABC Elite 8 games this year drawing 3.4M and 3.1M represent an actual increase in popularity over Louisville-Iowa drawing 2.499M on ESPN in 2023. Getting back to network television has been really good for WBB. The long period of being only on ESPN/ESPN2 was really bad for viewership.

The apples-to-apples comparisons to 2024 show a significant drop to Clark and Reese games, but the 2025 numbers are still good. JuJu’s absence also really hurt the ratings for the Monday night Elite 8 games.
 
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100% Swerve: Watching SEC softball on ESPNU and Eric Frede is doing the play by play. I really enjoyed listening to him and Meghan doing the SNY UConn WBB games a few years ago.
Eric and Bob Picozzi are my two most favorite Husky play by play announcers.
End of Swerve.
 
Centerstream said:
100% Swerve: Watching SEC softball on ESPNU and Eric Frede is doing the play by play. I really enjoyed listening to him and Meghan doing the SNY UConn WBB games a few years ago.
Eric and Bob Picozzi are my two most favorite Husky play by play announcers.
End of Swerve.
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Maybe we should adopt this format? A start and finish to make it clean. ;):D
 


Took me a couple moments to process, but the numbers for just ESPN are still solid. Yes, it's lower than 2023 or 2024 (Clark effect), but a significant jump from UConn - SC round one.
 
cancontent said:


Took me a couple moments to process, but the numbers for just ESPN are still solid. Yes, it's lower than 2023 or 2024 (Clark effect), but a significant jump from UConn - SC round one.
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Lol--what are weird way to show ratings for all 4 games in that tweet. Just show the number of viewers for each year.
 
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