World Cup TV Ratings thread

[UVA-United]

I'm sure I'm misposting, but I figure I will be seen and redirected here...

Does anyone have access to the numbers that are being pulled so far on the Disney networks for the World Cup so far?

Thanks

[Sachsen]

I'm sure I'm misposting, but I figure I will be seen and redirected here...

Does anyone have access to the numbers that are being pulled so far on the Disney networks for the World Cup so far?

Thanks

Not yet, latest Nielsen ratings are for the week ending June 4.

[UVA-United]

Thanks!

[house]

Can't wait. Game One of the Stanley Cup - perhaps the greatest game in Cup history - drew a 0.95 on OLN. All World Cup games should kill that.....

[jri]

Yeah, but look at ABC matches..

1-0 on an own goal (boring game)
0-0 good game in the "I am purist" kindof way (but not to the avg. sports fan)
2-1 better game, but the cause looked pretty lost after Argentina 2nd goal.

4 goals in 3 games, and 1 own goal

This morning, 0-1 to Holland. Another blow-up

5 goals in 4 games now.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news, but 1.25-1.5 goals (Mexico-Iran will bring that up) is just not enough. Not near enough. To convert your fence-sitting average American sports fan. Just the way it is. I really don't care ratings, when the game(s) itself just don't scream "you need to watch me"...at least not yet.

Hard to imagine this is going to be a high-scoring Cup however. The world tilts much more towards Eriksson's tactics (and look at how minnow Greece made it thru) vs. open-'er-up, let-the-chips-falls soccer...

[Mountainia]

Yeah, but look at ABC matches..

..game details..

5 goals in 4 games now.

Sorry to be bearer of bad news, but 1.25-1.5 goals (Mexico-Iran will bring that up) is just not enough. Not near enough. To convert your fence-sitting average American sports fan. Just the way it is. I really don't care ratings, when the game(s) itself just don't scream "you need to watch me"...at least not yet.


I'm not saying that the WC TV ratings in the US will be good or bad, but the assumption that the ratings depend on the number of goals scored is unproven.

Instead, I think it is just as likely to say that people not interested in the game (the clear majority) will give many reasons for not watching. But if the underlying facts ever changed (more goals getting scored, for example,) those same people would still not watch.

So I don't buy it.

[bigtw64]

This website posts TV ratings - albeit a couple of weeks old (click on 'sports')
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/ratings/
Of course the time to speculate on ratings will be after the USA has played a game.......

[Rampage]

Was the highest rated world cup match US vs Brazil, July 4, 1994 (round of 16 game) on ABC? I think it pulled in a rating over 9.0.

If the US wins over the Czechs, the Saturday ABC game US vs Italy should do well.

[Rickster]

I wonder if the deep shadows on some of the fields will put off viewers? I found a few of the games almost unwatchable.

[Rampage]

I noticed the shadows too, distracting. Same thing seems to happen every year for the MLS cup.

[Fulham9]

I'll kick off the ratings:

http://www.wsbtv.com/sports/9353613/detail.html

England-Paraguay did a 6.2 in Atlanta.

[Sachsen]

I wonder if the deep shadows on some of the fields will put off viewers? I found a few of the games almost unwatchable.

The picture on Univision is much brighter, crisper, and cleaner than ABC/ESPN's blurry feed, which looks like it's being screened through a matte lens.

Or is it just me?

Plus I don't have to listen to Balboa. ;)

(And I don't understand Spanish!)

[stingbee30]

ATLANTA is one of the TOP 10 Markets. During the past world cups, Atlanta had also one of the highest ratings in big markets. I bet you the overnight ratings will be significant higher. Watch out for ratings from New York, LA, San Francisco, Houston, Boston, Washington DC, Chicago, Dallas, and Miami: Atlanta rating should be used as a barometer. My gut feeling is we will end-up somewhere between 4-5 rating on ABC's game, and the Mexico and IRAN game will probably be higher. You guys assume that eveyone will tune in to Univision: guess what there are many spanish americans that will tune to ABC/ESPN.

[scaryice]

0-0 good game in the "I am purist" kindof way (but not to the avg. sports fan)

Purist? That was as dramatic as it gets.

[Andy_B]

Yeah, but look at ABC matches..

1-0 on an own goal (boring game)
0-0 good game in the "I am purist" kindof way (but not to the avg. sports fan)
2-1 better game, but the cause looked pretty lost after Argentina 2nd goal.



The Argentina game was on ESPN2 not ABC

Andy

[Andy_B]

The key to all of these ratings discussions will be to get the combined numbers from ABC/Univision. Luckily Univision is now measured the same way as ABC is by the ratings system so the numbers will be easy to combine.


Andy

[kebzach]

ABC reported overnight ratings for Saturday's England-Paraguay game and for Sunday's Mexico-Iran game at 2.7 -- about 3 million households for each. Spanish-language network Univision was also televising the games. Figures for Monday's game involving the Americans won't be available until Tuesday.

By comparison, the French Open women's final, televised early Saturday on NBC, drew viewers in about 1.9 million households. Even on its worst nights, the Winter Olympics drew about 16 million viewers in February.

[Andy_B]

ABC reported overnight ratings for Saturday's England-Paraguay game and for Sunday's Mexico-Iran game at 2.7 -- about 3 million households for each. Spanish-language network Univision was also televising the games. Figures for Monday's game involving the Americans won't be available until Tuesday.

a 2.7 would be equivalent to ~2 million households not 3 million households.

The Trinidad Paraguay game did a 2.9 with 2.2 million households on just ABC.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2006-06-12-tv-ratings_x.htm

Andy

[monster]

Ap story (http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060613/SPORTS/606130334) - see second item

No ESPN2 numbers yet

[Gioca]

LOL Trinidad & Tobago crushed the Stanley Cup in ratings. Times are indeed changing.