MLS TV Ratings

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  1. MobileSoccerFan

    May 14, 2012
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    If Wiki is right its a 1:1.159 ratio, so a .6 overnight means 695,400 households? That would be an amazing number given that the first 30 minutes of the broadcast was on ESPN2. It's an amazing number for a game on ESPN. Almost as good as 2010 MLS Cup I think.
     
  2. iron81

    iron81 Member+

    Jan 6, 2011
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    They were saying earlier in this thread that the overnights, which includes the 0.6 figure reported, likely includes the Eng-Ita overrun into the initial MLS timeslot. They'll publish more accurate, and likely lower, numbers later.
     
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  3. Bariaga

    Bariaga Member

    Jul 9, 2008
    From an earlier post in this thread..

    From that it looks like the SEA-POR game got at least a mil viewers, no? But I don't understand the rating points and its relation to viewers completely. Maybe the final number will fall a little below that. It should be a solid number, nonetheless.
     
  4. MobileSoccerFan

    May 14, 2012
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Oh yea. I guess households isn't viewers. Hopefully we can get the accurate,detailed rating soon.
     
  5. Stan Collins

    Stan Collins Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Silver Spring, MD
    Apparently that's the best overnight for MLS on the ESPNs since 2001.
     
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  6. Bremas

    Bremas Member

    Sep 30, 2009
    With all due respect to other teams and their fans.... I'm soooo glad this was Portland; on a sunny summer day with Seattle visiting. Really couldn't have gone much better than that.

    As for the switch to and from ESPN2: I don't think it was a detriment and was maybe even a positive. Made for a quicker turnaround to a game already in full swing. Less chance for viewers to jump ship before at least seeing it.
     
  7. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's not linear. One rating/viewership does not always linearly track a different rating/viewership.

    Hopefully it will be 800k or higher.
     
  8. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Last year
    Portland at Seattle drew 467k viewers on ESPN
    Seattle at Portland drew 328k viewers on ESPN2
     
  9. LongDuckDong

    LongDuckDong Member+

    Jan 26, 2011
    Club:
    FC Schalke 04
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This. Viewership is generally lower during the day. A 2.4 in the afternoon is normally around 2.4 million viewers. At night (during prime time), a 2.4 can be as high as 5 million viewers.

    Given the time slot, I'd say a .6 translates to about 0.8 to 0.9 million viewers, and the earlier Euro quarterfinal is probably about 2.5 million viewers.
     
  10. MobileSoccerFan

    May 14, 2012
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    LongDuckDong or MLSFan123:

    Could you explain why that is.
     
  11. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Let me try and summarize

    Rating = % of households who tune into the program
    Viewership = total number of viewers actually watching a program

    If you watch as a household, that is not variable. One person or seven people in the household could be watching it does not matter, the household gets logged.

    However, the number of people who watch a show is highly variable with in the household. Because of that variable, it is an inexact science trying to predict number of viewers based on a household rating.
     
  12. LongDuckDong

    LongDuckDong Member+

    Jan 26, 2011
    Club:
    FC Schalke 04
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    This. During the day, most Neilson households with their TV on only have around one viewer. At night, there are normally 1.5 to 2 viewers per household. People get home from work/school, and there are more people in each family watching the TV.
     
  13. MobileSoccerFan

    May 14, 2012
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Oh alright that makes sense. Thanks guys.
     
  14. Shopping Cart Man

    Sep 21, 2006
    Jacksonville, FL
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I like the general feel of both the Timbers-Sounders and 'Quakes-Galaxy ESPN commercials, but they end way too quickly. The narrator attempts two throw each teams full name and the start time / channel into the last three or four seconds of the ad. Just going with the nicknames would make it seem less rushed.
     
  15. crookeddy

    crookeddy Member+

    Apr 27, 2004
  16. MobileSoccerFan

    May 14, 2012
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Amazing, huh?
     
  17. VegasNYC

    VegasNYC Member

    Apr 22, 2011
    Australia
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    ITALY VS. ENGLAND THRILLER ATTRACTS 2.1 MILLION VIEWERS ON TSN.

    http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/story/?id=399231

    Pretty impressive number, no doubt helped by the large number of Canadians of italian and english heritage.

    Here are all 4 qtr finals tv ratings on TSN.

    Italy vs. England: 2.058 million viewers

    Spain vs. France: 1.13 million viewers

    Germany vs. Greece: 917,000 viewers

    Portugal vs. Czech Republic: 652,000 viewers
     
  18. Shopping Cart Man

    Sep 21, 2006
    Jacksonville, FL
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Didn't Beckham's first league match against DC back in '07 get a 1.0? Or did I hear wrong?
     
  19. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    His first game on ESPN was not a league game.

    When LA played Chelsea on ESPN with Becks making his brief debut for LA, they drew a 1.0 and 947k households.

    When LA played DC United on ESPN2, with Becks making his MLS TV debut, they drew a .45 and 422k households.
     
  20. ceezmad

    ceezmad Member+

    Mar 4, 2010
    Chicago
    Club:
    Chicago Red Stars
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    So do we know the # with out the Penalty kicks part on ESPN yet?

    Is that the 0.6 number because if it is that is pretty good.
     
  21. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Seeing the huge ratings increases for international soccer has me feeling really good. So good that I will hazard a prediction that MLS will also see huge percentage ratings increases.

    I'm just not so sure when. 5 years?
     
  22. Fanatical Monk

    Fanatical Monk Member+

    Jun 14, 2011
    Fantasyland
    Maybe, but I could also see where a 2-0 score flashing up immediately on switch wouldn't help keep people interested.
     
  23. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    When watching the NBA, I have noticed that in game, the announcers mention upcoming telecasts on other stations (TNT mentions upcoming ESPN games and vice versa).

    I don't remember this happening for MLS games though on ESPN/NBC.
     
  24. Spursfan1

    Spursfan1 Member+

    Sep 7, 2010
    Atlanta
    Club:
    Tottenham Hotspur FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    how did NBC do with the NY DC game?
     
  25. MLSFan123

    MLSFan123 Member+

    Mar 21, 2011
    Boston Area
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    We typically get the numbers on Tuesday, so hopefully bot the ESPN, and NBC viewership numbers will come in today and we can update the season stats.
     

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