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Andy_B
18 Jun 2006, 06:54 PM
The game drew a very solid 5.5 on just ABC
http://sports.aol.com/worldcup/story...90001?cid=2447
JS
Yankee_Devil
18 Jun 2006, 07:06 PM
Thats pretty awesome. I mean we still kind of of low but for Soccer in this country those a great numbers.
Sachsen
18 Jun 2006, 07:07 PM
Link didn't work. Try this:
http://sports.aol.com/worldcup/story/_a/italy-us-gets-high-overnight-tv-rating/20060618153009990001?cid=2447
From the article:
The ratings for the 1-1 tie between the United States and Italy on Saturday got the highest overnight rating for a World Cup game on ABC since the 1998 championship game.
The game, which began at 3 p.m. EDT, got a 5.2 rating, the highest since the '98 final between Brazil and France got a 7.0.
Awesome!
TOTC
18 Jun 2006, 07:18 PM
America! Hell yeah!
Marko72
18 Jun 2006, 07:51 PM
Hey, not bad...
Dreaming of seeing in my lifetime what I'm seeing in Europe right now, where every single cafe has a plasma TV outside as well as inside to draw viewers who watch every single match. When their team is playing, everyone in town can hear the simultaneous cheering or booing echoing through the streets. And people of all ages, men and women wear the team colors on match day.
DCSharksFC
18 Jun 2006, 07:57 PM
The rating is the percentage of all homes with TVs, whether or not they are in use.
i understand the percentage, but what does the in use or not mean???
also, i doubt this adds together all the people in the pubs and bars that were FULL
fox3c
18 Jun 2006, 07:58 PM
And you have to add in the Univision numbers to the overall total...
Sanguine
18 Jun 2006, 08:04 PM
i understand the percentage, but what does the in use or not mean???
also, i doubt this adds together all the people in the pubs and bars that were FULL
In use or not in use means EVERY TV, whether or not it's actually turnned on and being watched. I don't think any bars are counted in ratings, as none of them are in the Nielsen program. There's two parts to every rating, the overall rating and the share rating. The overall rating is the percentage of all TVs, and the share is all TVs that are in use at the time of the showing.
adam
18 Jun 2006, 08:08 PM
Good news for sure.
I had been planning on going to one of the "soccer bars" in Minneapolis to watch the game as they always have great turnouts for the WC. I was running a little late though and chose to head to a campus bar that is much closer to my apartment. The atmosphere was amazing. Plenty of people in US gear and there were even a few Italians (and some Americans who think they're Italians), which made for some fun back and forth taunting.
This simply wouldn't have happened 10 years ago. Period. Sure there would've been soccer fans at Brit's Pub or The Local but for this to happen at a random bar that is not known for being soccer friendly was pretty encouraging.
It's refreshing to walk into a bar full of US soccer fans and not know a single one of them...
fox3c
18 Jun 2006, 08:58 PM
There's a pretty comprehensive running thread on this topic already, with some comparison numbers from Nascar, Hockey, the French Open, and College football to boot, in a different forum here:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=367262&page=6
we're still waiting for someone who knows something about the Univision numbers.
UVA-United
18 Jun 2006, 10:34 PM
I think this is a great number. Consider, bandwagoners who may not have watched. Middle of a Saturday and people may have gone to the pool. TiVo-ers. US Open w/o Tiger but w/ Man Tits Phil.
I'm encouraged. Really encouraged.
The Big Ticket
18 Jun 2006, 10:37 PM
Anyone know the ratings for the US games in 1998?
flyerhawk
18 Jun 2006, 10:44 PM
I would love to know our share numbers. Given this game was on in the middle of a summer Saturday afternoon I believe the numbers would have been even better if the game was in primetime.
fox3c
18 Jun 2006, 11:00 PM
Anyone know the ratings for the US games in 1998?
They may be somewhere in the thread i linked above, or one of the links in it. It seems like one of the news links in it may have made some reference to those numbers, or generally the difference between 1998, 2002, and 2006. I think the general trend obviously is up.
Stan Collins
19 Jun 2006, 06:18 AM
Yeah, I saw an article from several days ago (before this match) that said the english WC ratings were about double Korea/Japan, about 15% up from France '98.
But that should be greater than 15% now, as there won't have been any US match drawing 5 million TV homes, I suspect. (One nielsen ratings point = just a smidge less than 1 million tv homes).
nobody
19 Jun 2006, 08:00 AM
First game was a horrible advertisement for US soccer. We played like crap after the announcers over-hyped us to no end.
This game was fantastic for newcomers and casual fans opf the game. The announcers actually considered how difficult the task was and then the team came out and played a gritty, highly involving game with heart and guts. I watched with someone who has developed a casual interest in the world cup, but generally not a soccer fan and he was absolutely transfixed by the game. Sure, the blood, the fouls, the red cards...you always hear how that kind of stuff needs to be wiped out of the game, but the average sports fan eats that sort of thing up, especially when he gets to see his home team overcome it all.
Matt in the Hat
19 Jun 2006, 09:57 AM
Any word on the Univision overnight?
fox3c
19 Jun 2006, 10:25 AM
Any word on the Univision overnight?
The average univision ratings are around a 2, so you imagine it would be a little higher. Even just a 3, plus a final 4.5 from ABC (assuming the value may go down a little) would give a combined 7.5, not in primetime, if those numbers hold. The NBA finals have been pulling an 8-9 on ABC, in primetime.
PhilipReed
19 Jun 2006, 10:35 AM
Sure, the blood, the fouls, the red cards...you always hear how that kind of stuff needs to be wiped out of the game, but the average sports fan eats that sort of thing up, especially when he gets to see his home team overcome it all.
Exactly. The controversy should actually draw people into following this and future tournaments -- few emotions are stronger than the righteous indignation when "We wuz robbed." It's even irrevelant whether the sense of being cheated is borne out by the facts or not. The casual fan just knows that the ref seemed to have it in for our side, so that's all the more reason to hope that we stick it to the soccer establishment.
The Ghana game at 10:00 ET/7:00 PT midweek should be a major drop in ratings. If we're lucky enough to see a Brasil game, that should get better ratings than Ghana on a Tuesday at 11:00 ET/8:00 PT, but still not great. Too bad the F1-E2 game isn't on a weekend.
For reference, someone said that on that other thread that the Brasil-USA game on July 4, 1994 got about a 9.
fox3c
19 Jun 2006, 11:34 AM
For reference, someone said that on that other thread that the Brasil-USA game on July 4, 1994 got about a 9.
That game was probably helped by the cup being here and all. And time has shown that that was really a temporary spike. We don't want what happened to Hockey and the NHL, we should be looking for steady, gradual growth. Averse to most sports, soccer is aided by having a higher than average proportion of 18-34 year old males in the audience in the US at the current time, which has been pointed out numerous times is what advertisers crave.
Though I'm sure a Brazil-USA would draw some great ratings this year even on a workday.