I have never had an issue with espn+ on my Roku Never had an issue with it on my phone Never had an issue on the computer Never had an issue on my tablet.
I don't have an issue with the actual app and playing videos, just an issue with the lack of features like hiding scores or being able to resume where you left off. Content available is amazing and the quality of the video is good, they just need some major improvements to how it's being delivered and consumed.
This isn't correct. The 0.8 rating for Birmingham means that 2 out of ~249 Neilsen households in the area watched this game. The standard error on the binomial distribution, assuming 0.8 is the true pop rate, is 1.4 households. Or put another way, you could see 2 households tuning in when the "true" rating is actually only 0.3 over 5% of the time. Or put another way, the error bar is large on this estimate, and it's totally fair to wonder whether there is non-random sampling of Nielsen households
Yes the skeptic in me often wonders this as well, as sometime you'll see the same viewing figure pop up several times during a MLS Season. For example a game will hit on a 269k rating a 2-3 times during the year. Is it really that in the strange happenstance of the Universe that exactly 269,000 viewers just all happen and decided to watch a MLS game not once but two or three times? Of course not. More than likely there is unintentional sample bias, which points to the past major flaw in Nielsen ratings. With this said the inclusion of OOH viewership rolled in with the Linear TV number into 1 big number should greatly diminish that kind of statistical noise and give a not flawless, but truer representation of a broadcast/cable media audience size.
I didn't think so but it might be. MLS is saying that this is the first year to have ABC and Univision both carry the game. EDIT: That article says: "For the first time in league history, MLS Cup will air domestically in the U.S. on both the ABC Television Network and Univision Network, and in Canada on TSN and TVA Sports." I misread that at first. I guess it could have been on ABC and Univision back in the day but not also on the Canadian networks. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2019/08/28/2019-mls-cup-air-live-abc-and-univision ABC had the Cup from 1996-2008 before it switched over to ESPN. Maybe Univision also had it in that period. As far as I can tell TeleFutura (now UniMas) had the game in 2007 and 2008. Galavision had it 2009-2011, and UniMas has had it since then. Does someone have evidence that the Cup was carried on Univision?
Telemundo had MLS Spanish language rights in 2000 and 2001. Maybe they broadcast MLS Cup but I don't find any evidence of that.
In the latest "Front Office Sports" newsletter (which is proving to be a good resource for MLS biz news), there's an article on the ticket prices and TV ratings for this year's MLS Cup Playoffs. URL: https://mailchi.mp/frntofficesport.com/mls-playoffs-growth A few excerpts on the TV side: ESPN’s audience for the 2019 MLS Cup playoffs is up 36% year-over-year, with the four single-elimination matches on ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 388,000 viewers. That is up from 286,000 viewers in seven matchups in 2018. That marks ESPN’s most-viewed MLS Cup playoffs since 2012 when it averaged 392,000 viewers. Viewership on ESPN Deportes was also up 226% versus 2018. The combined audience of 961,000 viewers on ESPN and ESPN Deportes for the LAFC-LA Galaxy match on October 24 makes it the highest ESPN telecast in 20 years. Viewership on Fox Sports 1 for the Atlanta United versus Toronto was up 42% vs 2018 – this marked the highest playoff broadcast on Fox Sports 1.
One thing this indicates is that making the middle two rounds midweek even though there were perfectly available weekends was a successful choice for television purposes. Last year 9 out of 12 games in the conference semifinal and final rounds were on weekends. I would personally prefer having the four playoff rounds on four consecutive weekends, but it seems to make business sense to avoid the college football and NFL TV competition.
Not MLS but the EPL had better enjoy its heyday. Sky Network Television has written down the value of large parts of its business and scrapped paying a dividend as it changes direction to counter falling pay TV subscribers. The company shed more satellite pay TV subscribers but gained some on its other subscription services. Photo: 123RF The pay TV operator reported a net loss of $607.8 million for the June year compared with last year‘s loss of $240m. Sky said it would take $670m in write-offs in the value of assets, and the costs of a now scrapped technology project.
Off of TV Ratings specifically, but Forbes has put out its latest valuations and revenue estimates for MLS teams. In 2018 MLS teams generated a total $816m before SUM distributions of $125 league wide. Meaning that average MLS investor/operator including SUM distribution had $40.9 million in revenue in 2018. Adjusted for 24 teams this year and assuming no revenue growth from 2018-2019 on a per team basis, MLS is closing in on being a $1b a year operation with $982m in total revenues. Assuming that the 6.2% per team revenue growth from 2017 to 2018 continued to 2019, MLS/SUM has cracked the $1 billion mark at $1,042,000,000. That would mean that per team revenues including SUM distribution actually stands at $43.45m per team. If salaries were a mere 30% of average per team revenues they would be placed at $13m per team next season. Actual gross MLS/SUM revenues for 2018 was $1.166b according to the Forbes article (source: math). https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriss...xpansion-fees-sale-prices-surge/#20cf340351b5
We all know popular vote was not going to decide the winner. So either the trustworthy pollsters got their methods wrong (which is my point) Or they did not make a realistic, quality poll. Either way my argument is right. I will just close with the fact that I don't get political, I was just trying to show how measurements we trust so much can be wrong... by far sometimes.
you are totally right, I overestimated the number of possible households. So the chance the sampling is the key in the measurement becomes bigger.
That is, exactly, my question/concern. is it the best metric we have? yes. Is it great? no. Is it good? mmm maybe? is it doubtful? for sure.
Soccer coverage in the us has come a very long way. On abc, they stay with the trophy presentation, they discuss the game, including mentioning that it wasn't the best game ever, they don't compare to other sports. It was presented the same way any other major championship would be. Awesome!!
What the... WST: I thought ESPN was up... so who is disappointed with the overall numbers? Maybe FS1... Spanish language was CERTAINLY not disappointing.
Primetime Saturday night after college football is over vs. Sunday afternoon overlapping both NFL daytime timeslots. Plus only one US local market audience.. Spanish audience increased 100%, though?