WUSA PAX TV ratings thread

[FearM9]

Damn. All those threads and posts gone. :( Oh well. Such is life.

http://www.soccertv.com/women.cfm

WUSA on PAX TV Ratings


Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===========================================
April 13 0.095 0.077 81000
April 20 0.152 0.122 129000
April 27 0.151 0.121 128000
May 4 0.069 0.056 59000
May 11 N/A N/A N/A
May 18 0.098 0.079 83000
May 25 0.080 0.064 68000
June 1 0.078 0.063 66000
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000

PAX TV is available in 85 million homes.

National rating is calculated based on 105.5 million homes.

Source: Neilsen Media Research

Scheduled telecasts for the next 180 days

[sebakoole]

Good research, FearM9!

Interesting that the June 29 SJ vs. Boston garnered the largest TV viewership YTD. I would have thought it would have been a Freedom game...

[thedeuce_2]

I hope the ratings improve and maybe WUSA soccer will get a major TV contract with ESPN, ABC, NBC, or CBS. I like women's soccer. Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Brianna Scurry could show some male soccer players a few things ;)

[nsa]

Originally posted by sebakoole
Interesting that the June 29 SJ vs. Boston garnered the largest TV viewership YTD. I would have thought it would have been a Freedom game... Have the Hammsters been on TV since Ms. Hamm returned to action?

Also, that 4 PM time slot is when many people are still on soccer fields during the spring season. June 29th would be the quiet week before leagues start up summer play.

[StarCityFan]

Originally posted by nsa
Have the Hammsters been on TV since Ms. Hamm returned to action?


Yes, June 22, vs. Carolina.

[soccer4ever]

How do WUSA ratings compare to WNBA ratings?

[FearM9]

The latest from http://www.soccertv.com/women.cfm :

WUSA on PAX TV Ratings


Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===========================================
April 13 0.095 0.077 81000
April 20 0.152 0.122 129000
April 27 0.151 0.121 128000
May 4 0.069 0.056 59000
May 11 N/A N/A N/A
May 18 0.098 0.079 83000
May 25 0.080 0.064 68000
June 1 0.078 0.063 66000
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000
July 13 0.106 0.086 90000

PAX TV is available in 85 million homes.

National rating is calculated based on 105.5 million homes.

Source: Neilsen Media Research

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Originally posted by soccer4ever
How do WUSA ratings compare to WNBA ratings? One of the reasons I hate the recent house cleaning of BigSoccer...I had this question answered and unfortunately I forgot the numbers :(. Anyhoo...WNBA ratings have been better than WUSA ratings. I'll see if I can find them tonight.

[JTorres]

Hope we see a big spike upward in the July 20 numbers as that should show us how the league's competitive nature is being followed.

A matchup of #1 & #2 teams should, in theory, be the most attractive broadcast for any league. Hope that great numbers for 7/20 will show that people care about and respond to the quality of play in WUSA and not just the personalities of "stars".

[FearM9]

Can someone give me the code for making tables???

Originally posted by JTorres
Hope that great numbers for 7/20 will show that people care about and respond to the quality of play in WUSA and not just the personalities of "stars". Here ya' go JT:

http://www.soccertv.com/women.cfm

WUSA on PAX TV Ratings


Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===========================================
April 13 0.095 0.077 81000
April 20 0.152 0.122 129000
April 27 0.151 0.121 128000
May 4 0.069 0.056 59000
May 11 N/A N/A N/A
May 18 0.098 0.079 83000
May 25 0.080 0.064 68000
June 1 0.078 0.063 66000
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000
July 13 0.106 0.086 90000
July 20 0.198 0.159 168000

PAX TV is available in 85 million homes.

National rating is calculated based on 105.5 million homes.

Source: Neilsen Media Research

[soccer4ever]

Originally posted by soccer4ever
How do WUSA ratings compare to WNBA ratings?

Anyone?

[JTorres]

Originally posted by FearM9
Here ya' go JT:

July 20 0.198 0.159 168000


Thanks Fear.

Now that is a great response.
Hope the trend continues with the next two matchups (last week & this) featuring critical playoff battles.

[soccer4ever]

Originally posted by FearM9

Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===================================
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000
July 13 0.106 0.086 90000
July 20 0.198 0.159 168000


6 of the last 7 games were over 0.1!

[kenntomasch]

WNBA ratings, even at their lowest, have been about 9 times the WUSA ratings (though it's not a totally fair comparison because of the respective networks and time slots):


05/25/02...Saturday...1.1...1,192,000
05/27/02...Monday.....1.4...1,434,000
06/02/02...Sunday.....1.1...1,123,000
06/22/02...Saturday...0.7.....703,000
06/23/02...Sunday.....0.9.....944,000
07/13/02...Saturday...0.8.....828,000
07/20/02...Saturday...0.6.....607,000
AVERAGE...............0.9.....975,857


I don't have share numbers, sorry.

I don't have the numbers carried out to that many decimals, so the WUSA PAX numbers you have posted, going out to three decimals, are very useful.

[FearM9]

http://www.soccertv.com/women.cfm

Here is the latest from SoccerTV:

WUSA on PAX TV Ratings


Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===========================================
April 13 0.095 0.077 81000
April 20 0.152 0.122 129000
April 27 0.151 0.121 128000
May 4 0.069 0.056 59000
May 11 N/A N/A N/A
May 18 0.098 0.079 83000
May 25 0.080 0.064 68000
June 1 0.078 0.063 66000
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000
July 13 0.106 0.086 90000
July 20 0.198 0.159 168000
July 27 0.208 0.167 177000

PAX TV is available in 85.0 million homes.

National rating is calculated based on 105.5 million homes.

Source: Neilsen Media Research

[JTorres]

More good news as they get the top rating of the year on the 27th. Need to see two more in this range for the end of the regular season.

Wish I knew some families with these books.

[FearM9]

http://www.soccertv.com/women.cfm


Household National
Date Rating(%) Rating(%) Households
===========================================
April 13 0.095 0.077 81000
April 20 0.152 0.122 129000
April 27 0.151 0.121 128000
May 4 0.069 0.056 59000
May 11 N/A N/A N/A
May 18 0.098 0.079 83000
May 25 0.080 0.064 68000
June 1 0.078 0.063 66000
June 8 0.112 0.095 100000
June 15 0.101 0.082 86000
June 22 0.066 0.053 56000
June 29 0.191 0.154 162000
July 6 0.114 0.092 97000
July 13 0.106 0.086 90000
July 20 0.198 0.159 168000
July 27 0.208 0.167 177000
Aug 3 0.101 0.082 86000

PAX TV is available in 85.0 million homes.

National rating is calculated based on 105.5 million homes.

Source: Neilsen Media Research

[kenntomasch]

All soccer TV ratings I can find are being compiled here (http://www.kenn.com/soccer/tv.html).

[RickDavis]

Originally posted by thedeuce_2
I like women's soccer. Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain and Brianna Scurry could show some male soccer players a few things ;)

Show them what? Their bras? Hope you are not serious. Do you think the women's national team could keep the men's team under 20 goals? Doubtful.

[Jezebel]

How do the WUSA TV ratings compare with MLS? Considering how popular basketball is in the US vs soccer, that might be a better comparison.

[kenntomasch]

Good question, and it's open to interpretation. You could say that because one's on cable and one's ostensibly over-the-air (though carried on cable quite a bit, as well as some dishes and things), that it's not a completely valid comparison, but I believe that ESPN2 and PAX are available in roughly the same number of American households, are they not? In which case, MLS is doubling WUSA's ratings, and then some.

Which makes sense, since MLS crowds are about twice that of WUSA as well.