Womens sports on TV

Andy_B · Jun 1, 2003

Bunch of interesting nuggets here

http://usatoday.com/sports/columnist/hiestand/2003-05-28-hiestand_x.htm

kenntomasch · Jun 1, 2003

"The problem, Sommer says, is that bowling tried to centralize its marketing and the PWBA lost a TV deal in which ESPN paid it a rights fee, about $6,500 per event, and picked up TV production costs.

Now the PWBA picks up its own costs, running about $40,000 per event, gets no rights fee and struggles to sell its TV ad time."
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Ouch. Very bad decisions for $200, Alex.

monster · Jun 1, 2003

Originally posted by kenntomasch
Ouch. Very bad decisions for $200, Alex.
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And they got good ratings.

kenntomasch · Jun 1, 2003

Had to be said

ESPN does nothing for bowling in this country.

Why even have a PWBA Tour if you aren't going to stop in Rochester?

They need to get on Fox now.

kenntomasch · Jun 2, 2003

From Memorial Day weekend:

X-Games Global Champ...ABC..1.5..1,609,000
Track & Field..........NBC..1.3..1,423,000
Arena Football/Sun.....NBC..0.9....931,000
NFL Europe.............FOX..0.7....826,000
WNBA LA at Connecticut.ABC..0.7....774,000
Hyannis Port Cycling...NBC..0.7....739,000
Arena Football/Sat.....NBC..0.7....792,000
WUSA Soccer SD at Car..PAX..0.1....122,000

TOTC · Jun 3, 2003

That just tells me NBC people will watch ANYTHING.

How does that compare to Nascar on FX?

kenntomasch · Jun 3, 2003

Don't have cable numbers, but NASCAR does pretty well on FOX.

"NBC people"? Who exactly are "NBC people?"

Real Ray · Jun 3, 2003

Originally posted by kenntomasch
Don't have cable numbers, but NASCAR does pretty well on FOX.

"NBC people"? Who exactly are "NBC people?"
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http://www.motorsportstv.com/tv_ratings.htm

June 1

Winston Cup - Dover (FX): 4.7 rating; 3,807,000 HH; #4 show on cable

May 25

Winston Cup - Charlotte Coca-Cola 600 (FOX): Overnights of 4.9/10; Finals of 4.7 rating and 11 share; 5,055,000 HH; #1 sports program

IRL - Indy 500 (ABC): Overnight of 5.1; Finals of 4.6 rating and 14 share; 4,892,000 HH; #2 sports program

IRL - Indy 500 Pre-Race Show: 2.7 rating and 9 share; #7 sports program

May 18

Winston Cup - The Winston (FX): 3.9 rating; 3,080,000 HH; #5 cable program

IRL - Indy 500 Bump Day (ABC): Overnights of 2.0/5

Trucks - Charlotte (SPEED): .92 rating; 529,000 HH

F1 - Austria (SPEED): .38 rating
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RevdUp · Jun 3, 2003

Re: Had to be said

Originally posted by kenntomasch
ESPN does nothing for bowling in this country.
They need to get on Fox now.
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...is what I've been sayin' all along!
ESPN is the enemy here...they always have something to do with all of this. Those bastards!

We must act now!!
We need to bring in Mulder & Scully to investigate ESPN, before all of this gets outta hand!!

TOTC · Jun 9, 2003

Originally posted by Real Ray

F1 - Austria (SPEED): .38 rating

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Compare that with WUSA on Pax. Mia Hamm and Michael Schumacher. Sheesh.