Offical overnights could come late tomorrow and usually make it into the papers by Tuesday morning. If the number is good, some web site will give it Monday night. The final numbers (which usually drop significantly from the overnights for MLS), are usually available by Thursday. For some reason the overnights have always been easy to find while the final numbers are much harder to come by. Andy
Not exactly a related question, but I didn't feel like starting a new thread. Who gets the ad revenue from the game? I was thinking that since the broadcast was paid for by MLS, that they probably sold the airtime themselves to advertisers. If so, how much could they charge per 30 second spot vs. how much they paid for the whole show? Obviously, past Nielsen ratings would have been used to set the ad price, so probably not much.
For a change it was nice to see other sports fans having to wait for a soccer game to end. I'm sure a lot of golf fans tuned in to watch Tiger Woods but had to sit through the OT. Hopefully they get counted in the ratings.
FYI, the overnights are only from major cities (markets), where the final numbers are everybody. The last 2 playoff games got a 1.8 in Boston, but that only equals 40K people, and, as we all know now, there were half again that many in the stadium.
Nope, according to a weekly listing of local sports ratings in the Boston Globe, Neilsen thinks there are 2.3 million TVs in what it defines as the Boston market. Therefore, 1% of them (a 1.0 rating) is 23,000 screens.
KXLY suck Only available in Canada via cable from ABC and KXLY (Spokane) had an infomercial at 12:10 MDT and then at 12:30 MDT resumed showing the game on a tape delay. At least they didn't break off at the scheduled time to go to golf and let us watch the rest of the game in peace.
At least we can still say that MLS did better than those two hacks on the radio "Don and Mike" did in NYC before they were dropped ilke a pimp drops his hos
The NY Times have an interesting blurb re MLS and TV in Tuesday's paper: "Garber said the league was starting to capture the imagination of soccer aficionados with "skyrocketing" ratings for local telecasts. He said interest was so high that it was conceivable for the league to establish a soccer-only cable channel". http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/22/sports/soccer/22SOCC.html
Tears...in my eyes. If I had been drinking milk I would be smelling lactose for months to come. Still can't stop laughing. Worst/funniest part is that this pretty much sums up MLS of late.
DG is right about the local tv ratings, sunday,s game did 3.9 in Boston and I am sure it is much higher in LA.