Re: Apertura 2006 TV schedule As posted on soccerTV.com: Club America-Chivas Guadalajara on Univision drew highest U.S. TV viewership for a professional club soccer match in 12 years ----------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd Leg of the Mexican First Division "Torneo Apertura" semifinal series between Club America of Mexico City and Chivas Guadalajara recorded the highest U.S. television viewership for a professional club soccer match (a soccer match NOT involving national teams) in the past 12 years, according to data collected by Nielsen Media Research as part of the Nielsen Television Index (NTI) national general market television rating system. The Club America-Chivas Guadalajara match, dubbed the "superclasico" because the match pits the two biggest professional soccer clubs in Mexico, drew 2.048 million U.S. TV households (1.8% rating), and 3.956 million U.S. TV viewers age 2 and over when it aired live in the U.S. on Univision on Sunday December 10 at 9pm Eastern Time/6pm Pacific Time. Not only did the viewership of the "superclasico" surpass the viewership of any other professional club soccer match on US television (including both Major League Soccer and the Mexican First Division) in the past 12 years, the US TV viewership of the match surpassed the US TV viewership of every National Hockey League (NHL) telecast on both NBC Sports and OLN (now Versus) during the 2005-2006 NHL season with the exception of Games 3-7 of the 2006 Stanley Cup Final series on NBC Sports. The viewership of the "superclasico" serves as a reminder of the effect of immigration of Mexicans to the U.S. primarily in search of economic opportunities, and also serves as a reminder to Major League Soccer (MLS) officials how much work the 11-year-old MLS still has left to do in order to catch up to the Mexican First Division as the most popular televised professional club soccer entertainment product in the U.S. The defunct North American Soccer League (NASL), which folded in 1984, averaged about 2 million households on ABC Sports during the 1979 season, before the launch of cable sports TV powerhouse ESPN.
Funny thing is, it still didn't outperform La Fea Mas Bella this week on Univision. If the link doesn't work, the game was 6th this week, Fea took the top 5. http://www.nielsenmedia.com/nc/port...fa14010VgnVCM100000880a260aRCRD&selOneIndex=4
Chivas/America is usually on top when the Friday LA Times list of most watched sporting events of the last week comes out, though this time, perhaps the USC/UCLA game will top it.. Maybe not though..
Absolutely. I am actually very excited about this. What happened 12 years ago? (1994? Does the world cup count, or just club soccer?)
More power to the Mexican viewers. Their football is improving every year as evidenced by the play of Toluca and Pachuca in the Copa Sudamericana. MLS is moving in the right direction- we must be patient. The real problem is the amatuers at US soccer. With them at the helm we are in big trouble. Hopefully the MLS guys will guide soccer in this country over the coming years, not the pencil pushers at the USSF. Perry Stein
It's just club futbol so it isn't the WC, my guess is that they started tracking Mexican futbol 12 years ago.
AFTER such good rating this coming-up clasico COULD have one of the Lowest ratings in a while, im only saying this because America comes into this game looking pretty bad meanwhile chivas is playing better than ever so it doesnt generate the excitement of other clasicos for many of us who are neither chivas or america fans. I usually dont miss a clasico because its filled with so much hype usually and can be very entertaining but this one is lacking a bit of that, probably has to do with the fact that chivas has been dominating the series as of late. Oh well im not crazy about it, if i have nothing better to do, ill probably tune in, after all last weekds chivas-pumas and america-cruz azul dissapointed big time! If most none america and chivas fans feel the way i do about this game then you can expect lower ratings then usuall. I was also watching super estadio earlier tonight and according to them theres still alot of tickets available for the game, which is unusual for a clasico specially one being played at Azteca on a sunday evening. My guess is the americanistas are stARTING to get fed up with the mediocrity of their team and are not responding and its showing on the stands as well! This could well be an overwhelmingly home crowd away from home for chivas!!!!
Tus puntos son muy validos, y es la ::::neta::: ... segun lei quedan 20,000 boletos, y esperan se vendan 10,000 entre hoy y mañana, tmbn dicen que Chivas seria local,algo que ya es costumbre en el Azteca
iMAGINATE eso !!!! yo creo que primero regalan esos boletos a cualquier americanista que se les pare enfrente a que todavia mas gente de las chivas tengan acceso a eyos yo se que chivas es local en el azteca por lo regular pero no me imagino un clasico en el azteca con mas del 60 o 70% chivistas y creo que eso se puede dar este domingo!!!
I know this might be somewhat off topic but.... Chivas new jersey looks fu#*ing horrible. Crooked stripes and a crooked neck. WTF were they thinking? LMAO....
sooooooo, ratings for chivas-america, on telemundo now, while both are mediocre: Rating of 1, share of 2 (2173000 viewers), good for 7th best broadcast sports program for the week of April 13. Not quite the ratings from 2006 or 2007. I wonder what the last game on univision measured. http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...sen&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache...sen&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a
For all Spanish-language cable, the only bigger rating and audience in 2009 was an Interliga game between the Chivas and America teams on Fox Sports Sports en Espanol on Janaury 3. It earned a 12.0 rating and average of 613,000 Hispanic households.
Ratings in general, plus advertising, etc. This is a good article and I want to make sure a link is in different relevant threads.
2010 FIFA World Cup™ Mexico vs. Argentina Match on Univision Most Watched Program in Spanish-Language Television History Over 9.3 Million Total Viewers Tune in to Highly Anticipated Event
Telemundo Top Spanish-Language Net On Sunday Night With Soccer Coverage For its game presentation from 6:55 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., the Apertura 2010 Championship now stands as the network's best ever Futbol Liga Mexicana match, not involving Chivas, among persons 18 to 49 (1.65 million); males 18 to 49 (1.18 million); persons 18 to 34 (1 million); guys 18 to 34 (729,000); and viewers (2.4 million). On cume basis, the match was seen by nearly 4.7 million viewers that watched for at least six minutes, including 3.1 million18-to-49 watchers. http://www.multichannel.com/article..._Net_On_Sunday_Night_With_Soccer_Coverage.php