Coverage in the big city

[upstater]

I know nothing about basketball...don't watch basketball...

It's Louisville's football market, ESPN's #9 ranked football market in 2013, that interested me. And no, folks weren't all tuned in to watch awful Kentucky.

If NYC is such a draw...why does it not even nibble at being in the top 25 ESPN metered markets for football?

I get it that the city is huge...and thus maybe a couple of hundred thousand must watch football...but they don't make a blip on ratings.

Football/basketball--it doesn't matter. If the market is pulling in a 45 rating, no one cares about the sport. Your preferences are irrelevant when it comes to the bottom line: $$. If they could get that rating with bourbon bottle throwing, that's what would be on TV. Not football.

Couple hundred thousand? The article I listed had a 5 rating for ND. That's 5% x 22 million = 1 million + viewers. In one market.

Louisville needs to pull a 60 rating to equal that.

Again, you seem to be impressed by podunk markets while reiterating that NYC doesn't get high ratings. If 100 out of 101 people in your ville watched football last weekend, I guess you'd celebrate your 99 rating. But meanwhile, the advertisers are counting eyeballs. And, disposable income. People in the NYC buy half a trillion dollars worth of consumer goods per year.

 

[NickyNewark]

Football/basketball--it doesn't matter. If the market is pulling in a 45 rating, no one cares about the sport. Your preferences are irrelevant when it comes to the bottom line: $$. If they could get that rating with bourbon bottle throwing, that's what would be on TV. Not football.

Couple hundred thousand? The article I listed had a 5 rating for ND. That's 5% x 22 million = 1 million + viewers. In one market.

Louisville needs to pull a 60 rating to equal that.

Again, you seem to be impressed by podunk markets while reiterating that NYC doesn't get high ratings. If 100 out of 101 people in your ville watched football last weekend, I guess you'd celebrate your 99 rating. But meanwhile, the advertisers are counting eyeballs. And, disposable income. People in the NYC buy half a trillion dollars worth of consumer goods per year.

BB is still trying to snow/convince us on the "Ville" add and "insignificance" of the NY/NJ market in comparing? NYC w/o NJ/FF county alone dwarf's the whole state of Kentucky. Maybe you can compare "Ville" to SU country(CNY) but not any part of the heavily populated and wealthy eastern seaboard from Balt/DC to Boston via the" heart" of the NYC/NJ/LI/Western Conn megalopolis.

 

[Phillydave]

You left out the fact that your opponent on BTN regularly draws more eyeballs in NYC than Rutgers.

Again, you are wrong. Big Ten teams including Penn State have been airing on the BTN in NYC for several years now...yet in our first year in the league, we set the ratings record on BTN in NYC.

The Big Ten network even bragged about it.

http://btn.com/2014/09/16/penn-state-at-rutgers-on-btn-was-top-rated-ncaaf-game-in-ny-philly/

A few weeks later, RU set the second highest Neilson rating in NYC on BTN when we beat Michigan in a night game.

Regarding ratings against ND, RU pulled a 2.2 in NYC on a cable network vs the 1.7 in NYC Notre Dame had on ABC at the same time on the same day, so your theory about network versus BTN is wrong.

Had RU played on ABC, we would have doubled ND's rating in NYC.

 

[upstater]

Again, you are wrong. Big Ten teams including Penn State have been airing on the BTN in NYC for several years now...yet in our first year in the league, we set the ratings record on BTN in NYC.

The Big Ten network even bragged about it.

http://btn.com/2014/09/16/penn-state-at-rutgers-on-btn-was-top-rated-ncaaf-game-in-ny-philly/

A few weeks later, RU set the second highest Neilson rating in NYC on BTN when we beat Michigan in a night game.

Regarding ratings against ND, RU pulled a 2.2 in NYC on a cable network vs the 1.7 in NYC Notre Dame had on ABC at the same time on the same day, so your theory about network versus BTN is wrong.

Had RU played on ABC, we would have doubled ND's rating in NYC.

I posted a link below that showed you ND's 5.3 rating on network in NYC.

How did you miss that?

No doubt RU was a big factor in that 2.2. I'm just pointing out that you were playing the 2nd most popular team in NYC, which had just as much to do with that rating.

Look, Uconn did a huge rating nationally on ABC two years ago. 1.5 nationally. It was the most watched football game that entire week, primetime too. In September.

There's a reason UConn fans don't brag about that number.