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NCAA Womens Title Game Will Move to 3 p.m. ET Start on ABC (merged thread)

Bills Fan said:
It's called ratings. I know 95% of the posters on this Board probably prefer Women's CBB over the Men, but that's not the universe we live in. Same with WNBA vs NBA. Ratings drive the advertising $$$ and it's not even close. Beemer and Lobo, your positions are like saying WNBA players should be making the same salaries as NBA players.
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Nope. The NCAA (after much embarassment & prodding, the usual way they do things) made the decision to treat the women's tournament the same as the men's in terms of facilities, etc. I see no reason why the NCAA should allow Disney to move the women's championship game out of prime time to a lesser time slot. You know damn well they'd never allow it to happen to the men's tournament.
 
8893 said:
I was being sarcastic, but Palm Sunday is historically the longest mass of the year, and it's kind of a running joke in our house.

I was raised Catholic and my wife was raised Presbyterian. When we first moved to our former town almost 25 years ago, we surveyed the local churches to see which one we should join. The Catholic church was most familiar to me, and also closest to our house, so we started with that one. Unfortunately it was Palm Sunday and mass was like 90 minutes. As we walked out my wife said that one was off the list because she couldn't sit through mass that long.

We went to the Episcopalian church next and there were like eight other people there, six of whom looked to be in their 80s or older; that was off the list because we were looking for a family-centered place.

Next up was the Congregational church, which is where we ended up joining. It was a very good choice for us, and also loaded with former Catholics.
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I guess they figured it was as good place to congregate as any other.
 
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Whether we like the afternoon time or not, the football NC and the Mens’s BB championship are Prime Time events. And, it doesn’t matter who the teams are. They get the ratings. WCB is growing but not there yet. They need to get high viewership even if it’s teams other than SC & UCONN to get to the next plateau.
 
Beemer said:
Why relegate it to the afternoon??? We're talking the Division 1 NCAA women's basketball championship here. If the NCAA is finally seeing to it that the women's tournament is treated equally to the men's why does the network get to get away not doing that???

What bull excrement. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:
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You nailed it. Classic corporate doublespeak.
 
I personally think all these "prime time" games hurt sports. Not from us who are already fans but for the sports future as the young kids who would be their future players and viewers often can't watch them (at least on the east coast) due to bedtime restrictions on school nights. These games are shown at night because the advertisers want eyeballs on the games from their age group demographic and the good of the kids is not a consideration.
 
I love it. Wish more wbb games were on CBS and ABC. Think of it this way. Game starts at 3.. Game is over at 5..and you still have time to catch the early bird special at ur favorite restaurant.
 
triaddukefan said:
I love it. Wish more wbb games were on CBS and ABC. Think of it this way. Game starts at 3.. Game is over at 5..and you still have time to catch the early bird special at ur favorite restaurant.
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Some of us it starts at 12
 
triaddukefan said:
I love it. Wish more wbb games were on CBS and ABC. Think of it this way. Game starts at 3.. Game is over at 5..and you still have time to catch the early bird special at ur favorite restaurant.
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Don't watch any evening shows on ABC, NBC, or CBS and haven't for years. With all the different services and channels, there is always something better on.
 
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CocoHusky said:
Why?
Why wasn't it moved to ABC all along considering that ABC & ESPN are under the same network umbrella?
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So the power's that be could continue to pay them less and use the claim that the ratings are not good or no one watches women's basketball . Pretty much a low ball situation is my best guess.
 
TC22 said:
If we have as good of a game as we hope, then people will watch. It's really as simple as that. If people watch then maybe the time will change next year. There's a reason it was switched to ABC and it was because the numbers were there.
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National audience versus a global audience is always a major difference . Helps the game grow and show their is interest in our game !!
 
triaddukefan said:
I love it. Wish more wbb games were on CBS and ABC. Think of it this way. Game starts at 3.. Game is over at 5..and you still have time to catch the early bird special at ur favorite restaurant.
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Basketball and food! Sounds like heaven for Triad!
 
All of the comments here make for interesting reading. I really don’t care what channel the game is on or what time. My only concern is that if UConn is playing in that game, I can watch it and they win.
 
Carnac said:
All of the comments here make for interesting reading. I really don’t care what channel the game is on or what time. My only concern is that if UConn is playing in that game, I can watch it and they win.
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Fiach GIF by Ros na Rún
 
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WFFL said:
The ratings will be 10 times higher on ABC i think that's the positioning.
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I doubt the rating will even double. The difference between cable and network isn't nearly as great as it used to be.
 
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