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An Appeal to UConn fans: for the Sport

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As most, if not all, of you know, wbb is trying to get a tournament contract that is separate from the men’s in the well-founded belief that it will mean more money and exposure for the sport. It is important to that end that TV viewership be as strong as possible at this time.

You guys have the nation’s biggest fanbase and your continued viewership is critical to the cause!

I implore you to watch the final four games - or at least turn a tv set in your house onto the games if you just can’t stand to watch ( Yes, I understand that feeling). Feel free to watch and pull against my Gamecocks. :D

Viewership of wbb this year has been outstanding and you have certainly been a critical section of that viewership. Help the sport get to the finish line with the best year ever!

Thanks!
 
I was planning to watch. I wouldn't worry about the SC/Iowa game. I have a feeling the viewership for that will be huge. I also think the first game will do OK because a lot of people have certain feelings about Mulkey.

Watching the championship game, for me, may depend on who wins tonight.
 
GoUconn7961 said:
I was planning to watch. I wouldn't worry about the SC/Iowa game. I have a feeling the viewership for that will be huge. I also think the first game will do OK because a lot of people have certain feelings about Mulkey.

Watching the championship game, for me, may depend on who wins tonight.
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Well, leave a TV on for the championship even if you don't watch.:)
 
The ratings for the NC game may only be extrapolated since it's on a national TV network.
I'm not sure how they ascertain ESPN ratings but perhaps it's done the exact same way.
That means that it's possible that ratings are not based on actual viewership, but rather on a selected sample of viewers who are paid to wear an electronic monitoring device during their daily activities.

That's how Nielsen ratings, one of the major rating companies obtains their ratings.
Their monitoring devices pick up signals that are invisibly emitted by TV, radio, music & other streamed media.
This means that just because people turn on their TV to the NC game, they don't automatically get counted. Their viewership only gets counted if someone is wearing a monitoring device that is in the vicinity.
Then the monitoring device records & transmits a daily report to Nielsen about which shows that their selected sample audience have watched.
Nielsen mathematically extrapolates the results to estimate the viewership for the rest of the population.

Maybe streaming & cable connections can be counted another way.
But as far as independent agency ratings, Nielsen is considered to be a company that advertisers & networks trust for having an objective rating system.
 
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I plan to watch all the remaining games. Why give up an opportunity to see great teams in action? Would also be great to have fans of other teams watch when our team is playing. We need to come together to support the success of women’s basketball.
 
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temery said:
I'm not sure that's as true any more. Anyone watching through roku, or any other app on the internet is likely tracked somehow.
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they can be tracked but they aren't counted as a part of the nielson ratings, which is what is widely reported on.
 
visitingcock said:
As most, if not all, of you know, wbb is trying to get a tournament contract that is separate from the men’s in the well-founded belief that it will mean more money and exposure for the sport. It is important to that end that TV viewership be as strong as possible at this time.

You guys have the nation’s biggest fanbase and your continued viewership is critical to the cause!

I implore you to watch the final four games - or at least turn a tv set in your house onto the games if you just can’t stand to watch ( Yes, I understand that feeling). Feel free to watch and pull against my Gamecocks. :D

Viewership of wbb this year has been outstanding and you have certainly been a critical section of that viewership. Help the sport get to the finish line with the best year ever!

Thanks!
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Sure thing. Who’s playing…..:rolleyes:
 
Great thread. If we care about the continued growth of WBB, we will tune in. Coach Walz hit the nail on the head when he was talking about growing the game. We can't say that we love WBB and only watch when our program is doing good. If we love WBB, we are watching as much WBB as we can. I plan on watching all of the games. Like I said, I am a basketball junkie. I will be watching tonight's games, the WNIT Final tomorrow, and the Championship game on Sunday.
 
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visitingcock said:
As most, if not all, of you know, wbb is trying to get a tournament contract that is separate from the men’s in the well-founded belief that it will mean more money and exposure for the sport. It is important to that end that TV viewership be as strong as possible at this time.

You guys have the nation’s biggest fanbase and your continued viewership is critical to the cause!

I implore you to watch the final four games - or at least turn a tv set in your house onto the games if you just can’t stand to watch ( Yes, I understand that feeling). Feel free to watch and pull against my Gamecocks. :D

Viewership of wbb this year has been outstanding and you have certainly been a critical section of that viewership. Help the sport get to the finish line with the best year ever!

Thanks!
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What are the viewer counts based upon? In the old days there was the Neilsens but the viewers were selected to participate, you had some kind of device connected to your tv. Now in the digital age, I think that the same is true except collecting the data is different.
I for one hope my tv viewership is not being monitored but in today's big tech world and stealing personal data, I am guessing that it is quite likely.
And to end my post, I am 99% certain that I will not watch any of the games live. I may check the score of the 7PM game via the ESPN app but that's about it.
Sorry.
 
JellyBean said:
Great thread. If we care about the continued growth of WBB, we will tune in. Coach Walz hit the nail on the head when he was talking about growing the game. We can't say that we love WBB and only watch when our program is doing good. If we love WBB, we are watching as much WBB as we can. I plan on watching all of the games. Like I said, I am a basketball junkie. I will be watching tonight's games, the WNIT Final tomorrow, and the Championship game on Sunday.
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I also love college softball and football but will only watch games that includes specific teams. In fact I have discovered a YouTube channel that posts a huge number of softball game replays but, again, will only watch those specific teams (unless I watched the game live). I will also watch football game replays, sometimes even if I watched it live. Again, only when specific teams played.
 
temery said:
Neilson rating have become less relevant every year. Though I do appreciate the dollar bill they send me every year or so.
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This article provides a glimpse into why Nielsen ratings are important.
They measure how many people actually watch the commercials.
Nielsen has 100,000 households and their electronic monitors can detect the invisible signals that are emitted by the commercials which is important to advertisers.

C3 and C7 ratings: Arguably the most important ratings numbers that the public doesn’t usually see. These ratings track the number of viewers who actually watch commercials — which is why Nielsen ratings exist in the first place — over three or seven days. They play a big role in setting rates for advertisers buying commercial time.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

TV Long View: A Guide to the Ever-Expanding World of Ratings Data

From next-day snapshots to (extremely) long tail measurements, The Hollywood Reporter breaks down what different types of TV-viewing numbers mean.
www.hollywoodreporter.com www.hollywoodreporter.com
 
hoopsnloops32 said:
The only viewership that is counted is those with Nielson boxes. Watching or leaving a TV on wouldn't improve ratings unless you had one of those.
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I don't think that is true anymore, especially for people who have internet wif with their satellite provider.

I'm gonna call on the person I consider the TV viewing expert, @awhom111
 
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visitingcock said:
I don't think that is true anymore, especially for people who have internet wif with their satellite provider.

I'm gonna call on the person I consider the TV viewing expert, @awhom111
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The reported numbers are still from nielson who use sample sizes that reflect the whole population. The are other ways network track their numbers but those aren't the headline numbers reported.
 
My home was the first wireless Nielsen household in Connecticut. (This was before widespread streaming was a thing.) They literally cracked opened every device that could transmit, in order to connect a wireless transmitter) and then a wireless device (hidden under a bed-- true story) connected nightly to report back to Nielsen. They also warrantied every device they had opened, so the day the house got hit by lightning was also the day that the Nielsen techs (best guys on the planet) came to the house with new DVD players and the like.

At first, I was really wary, but back then, it was also pretty cool. I think our agreement lasted 5 years. We had a non-disclosure contract (so we couldn't be bought off?) and our results were aggregated by use of a fancy algorithm. We received a quarterly check based on how many devices were used. We also weren't supposed to change our viewing habits at all, but I confess that the idea of watching, say, trashy television appealed less to me when I knew those reports would be factored into ratings. I do know that, nowadays, with the advent of being able to stream pretty much everything, Nielsen changed the monitoring model.

I ALWAYS had the WBB tournament on during those years, whether or not UConn was playing precisely for the reasons @visitingcock suggests.

Cool times.
 
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npignatjr said:
Need officials to call the game as the rules are written. You know how freedom of movement is supposed to be allowed.
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This will never happen and never has happened in any sport. The home court advantage isn't just the crowd.
 
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Plan to watch all 3 games. Normally we would be in the stands but that ended with Covid. The wife and I were even at the ones UConn weren't there. The last time that happened was '07. Travel just isn't in the cards anymore.

May the best team win! The best team on any given game could be either of the 2. :cool:;)
 
Here's an essay from today's NYTimes that attempts to explain the exploding
success of women's sports. Its point is that these sports are gaining in monetary value as they generate increasing eyeballs. It focuses on this year's Final Four in wcb and notes the current stars (Clark, Boston)--espcially Caitlin who is like none other. Yet there is not a single mention of UConn's history of building interest in the sport--not one word. How is this possible?
www.nytimes.com

Women’s Sports Are Raking in Investments. The Final Four Shows Why. (Published 2023)

With stars, story lines and skill, the TV rights for the women’s Division I basketball tournament could be worth over $80 million, part of a larger wave of investors flocking to women’s sports.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
Is this willful ignorance? Before Clark and Boston there were legions of legendary women's stars all tugging their uni straps forward to show the words "U Conn." No program can compare--not even close.
 
The ratings will be very good this year, maybe better if SC hadn't made the FF. Fans of the game want to see more teams than UCONN, Stanford, SC and Tennessee in the day. The group of possible champs each year needs to grow for the sport to really grow and when that happens the followers of UCONN and other Blue Bloods will more than likely really become negative regarding the state of the program.

For me the game will continue to grow when you have players like Lou who aren't physical specimens having great success because she works hard and makes the most of what god gave her. It will grow as long as teams coach team and don't focus too much on the individual success of any one player and most of all it will grow as long as players stay in the same place for all 4 years and don't leave early to play pro ball.

In my opinion fans want to have a personal attachment to the players on the team and when the players don't seem to want that with the fans the interest falls off and you end up with what you have in other sports, mostly at the pro level right now but inching it's way into college.
 
Rowdy831 said:
The ratings will be very good this year, maybe better if SC hadn't made the FF. Fans of the game want to see more teams than UCONN, Stanford, SC and Tennessee in the day. The group of possible champs each year needs to grow for the sport to really grow and when that happens the followers of UCONN and other Blue Bloods will more than likely really become negative regarding the state of the program.

For me the game will continue to grow when you have players like Lou who aren't physical specimens having great success because she works hard and makes the most of what god gave her. It will grow as long as teams coach team and don't focus too much on the individual success of any one player and most of all it will grow as long as players stay in the same place for all 4 years and don't leave early to play pro ball.

In my opinion fans want to have a personal attachment to the players on the team and when the players don't seem to want that with the fans the interest falls off and you end up with what you have in other sports, mostly at the pro level right now but inching it's way into college.
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I disagree. I think it would be better if the FF was the three biggest TV viewing fanbases UConn, SCar, Iowa and somebody like Stanford from the West Coast. A David vs Goliath is much more interesting than four Davids slinging rocks at each other.
 
huskyd said:
Here's an essay from today's NYTimes that attempts to explain the exploding
success of women's sports. Its point is that these sports are gaining in monetary value as they generate increasing eyeballs. It focuses on this year's Final Four in wcb and notes the current stars (Clark, Boston)--espcially Caitlin who is like none other. Yet there is not a single mention of UConn's history of building interest in the sport--not one word. How is this possible?
www.nytimes.com

Women’s Sports Are Raking in Investments. The Final Four Shows Why. (Published 2023)

With stars, story lines and skill, the TV rights for the women’s Division I basketball tournament could be worth over $80 million, part of a larger wave of investors flocking to women’s sports.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
Is this willful ignorance? Before Clark and Boston there were legions of legendary women's stars all tugging their uni straps forward to show the words "U Conn." No program can compare--not even close.
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To them, just like ESPN, UConn is the past not the future. They are all happy that they are, for the first time in 15 years, not in the Final Four.
 
Rowdy831 said:
This will never happen and never has happened in any sport. The home court advantage isn't just the crowd.
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Actually it has, the NBA was in a downward spiral until Bird and Magic brought back passing and flash. Then the Detroit Piston era was a low point until the Jordan teams had their run then the Spurs.
 
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