The NHL deal was good news for MLS. These networks are paying like crazy. I doubt ESPN will give up MLS, they want all the premier domestic leagues in each sport.
It is now 700 days since Altitude was dropped from Comcast and DISH, leaving the Rapids (and Nuggets and Avalanche) essentially unviewable by most of Colorado and surrounding states. If anyone wants to know why the Rapids don't have a jersey sponsor, that's probably it.
Univision/TUDN coverage of Gold Cup final USA v MEX averaged 5.7 million viewers, network’s most-watched soccer telecast since 2016 Copa America final. Peaked during the 10:30 p.m. ET quarter-hour with 6.21 million.— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) August 3, 2021
That’s why you don’t want your profit centers to compete with each other. Kroenke has only himself to blame.
Sunday’s United States-Mexico Concacaf Gold Cup final averaged 7.6 million viewers across Univision, TUDN and FS1, down 14% from the same matchup in 2019, which did not face any notable competition (8.8M), but up 85% from United States-Jamaica in 2017 (4.1M). The competing Summer Olympics averaged 16.0 million across NBC’s various platforms, including 13.0 million on NBC alone. The United States’ win trails only 2019 as the most-watched Gold Cup final in a decade. FS1 sucks! Why wasn't it on Fox?
Barcelona v Real Sociedad got 465,000 viewers on big ABC, according to reports, while Tottenham v Manchester City had 818,000 on the cable NBCSN. Spanish-language results will be informative but not the most encouraging of starts for the LaLiga-ESPN partnership.— Bob Williams (@WilliamsBob75) August 17, 2021
Agreed, pretty good but I am sure that ESPN probably thought they would have Messi in the Barca team which would likely have made the ratings higher than they got.
Ratings TV #LeaguesCup y #SCCL21:434.000 América vs. Philly└333.000 (TUDN)└101.000 (FS1)342.000 Seattle vs. Tigres└129.000 (ESPN2)└213.000 (TUDN)262.000 SKC vs. León└110.000 (ESPN2)└152.000 (TUDN)101.000 Orlando vs. Santos (TUDN)77.000 NYCFC vs. Pumas (TUDN)— Jaime Ojeda (@jaimeor96) August 17, 2021
Are local Fox channels obligated to show the national games? In the Birmingham area today, they were showing re-runs of blackish instead of the Columbus-Seattle game....made no sense to me.
No. Local affiliates have the option to not show things.. They obviously can’t make it a regular thing, but one offs here and there.. sure As an example, when Ellen Degeneres’s character came out on her sitcom, a handful of affiliates in Conservative areas didn’t air that episode and a few dropped the show entirely.
In Des Moines, IA, the local NBC affiliate shows some home improvement show on Saturday afternoons instead of the 12:30 ET Premier League game. This is an area where soccer is actually a pretty big deal. I have to use my Chromecast and the NBC Sports app to watch those games. Apparently, the target audience for that station prefers how to change your wallpaper over the biggest professional sports league on the planet.
Depending on how you measure this (revenues, profit, fans, etc.) the NFL actually does have a claim on this title.
Report that “the combined value of the regional TV package of MLS could be $75 + million per year starting in 2023. The league wants to put that batch of games on streaming platforms without market blackouts, and end the regional TV model.”Blackout restrictions need to die. https://t.co/3FpJ3InoBo— MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) August 23, 2021 If true, that's fantastic news. Hate regional sports networks and blackouts.
This is awful. Absolutely awful. ******** streaming. Like this is so bad I'd probably literally stop watching MLS... maybe only the national TV games or the final?