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CBS furked up - serious ratings decline
Posted on 10/8/24 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 10/8/24 at 3:51 pm
ABC winning with SEC deal
All we wanted was $300 million. They dumped us and chose to give the B1G $350 million instead.
CBS Comparison from 2023 (SEC) to 2024 (B1G)
2024:
Week 1: 2.97m tOSU-Akron
Week 2: 2.22m Iowa-Iowa St
Week 3: 2.28m ND-Purdue
Week 3: 3.25m CU-CSU
Week 4: 6.32m USC-Michigan
2023:
(CBS coverage of SEC didn't start until week 3)
Week 3: 5.42m USC-Georgia
Week 4: 4.61m Miss-Alabama
Week 5: 6.40m Georgia-Auburn
Week 6: 7.23m A&M-Alabama
Week 7: 4.38m A&M-Tennessee
Week 8: 8.01m Tennessee-Alabama
Week 9: 5.95m Georgia-Florida
Week 10: 8.82m LSU-Alabama
Week 10: 7.00m Missouri-Georgia
Week 11: 3.62m Tennessee-Missouri
Week 12: 5.73m Georgia-Tennessee
Week 13: 9.09m Alabama-Auburn
Week 13: 4.09m Missouri-Arkansas
Week 14: 17.52m Georgia-Alabama - SEC CCG
Some yankee executives are kicking their selves.
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ABC is the most-watched network for college football through the first month of the 2024 season as millions of fans have tuned in for statement-making matchups, upset bids, last-second thrillers and more. ABC, which ranks No. 1 in average audience and total minutes viewed, has aired six of the top seven most-viewed games of the season and seven of the top 10.
ABC Saturday Night Football Presented by Capital One is averaging 7.3 million viewers – up 123 percent year-over-year, the franchise’s best audience through the first five weeks of the season since 2011. In primetime, the top five games of 2024 thus far have all aired on ABC.
Through September, ABC is averaging 5.5 million viewers for the network’s presentation of college football, marking ABC’s best five-week start since 2016 and second best since 2011. ABC’s audience is up 32 percent year-over-year with significant growth in the P18-34 demo, which is up 43 percent over 2023.
ABC has been responsible for 34 percent of live game consumption across Nielsen-rated networks, nearly two times more than the nearest competitor, and the network is averaging 78 percent more viewers than any other competitor.
The debut season of the new SEC on ABC franchise has delivered 6.2 million average viewers through the first 13 SEC-controlled games. The top SEC on ABC Saturday game each week averages 7.4 million viewers, and the SEC has been the most-watched conference on Nielsen-rated networks. 38 percent of live game consumption across all networks has featured an SEC squad in action.
All we wanted was $300 million. They dumped us and chose to give the B1G $350 million instead.
CBS Comparison from 2023 (SEC) to 2024 (B1G)
2024:
Week 1: 2.97m tOSU-Akron
Week 2: 2.22m Iowa-Iowa St
Week 3: 2.28m ND-Purdue
Week 3: 3.25m CU-CSU
Week 4: 6.32m USC-Michigan
2023:
(CBS coverage of SEC didn't start until week 3)
Week 3: 5.42m USC-Georgia
Week 4: 4.61m Miss-Alabama
Week 5: 6.40m Georgia-Auburn
Week 6: 7.23m A&M-Alabama
Week 7: 4.38m A&M-Tennessee
Week 8: 8.01m Tennessee-Alabama
Week 9: 5.95m Georgia-Florida
Week 10: 8.82m LSU-Alabama
Week 10: 7.00m Missouri-Georgia
Week 11: 3.62m Tennessee-Missouri
Week 12: 5.73m Georgia-Tennessee
Week 13: 9.09m Alabama-Auburn
Week 13: 4.09m Missouri-Arkansas
Week 14: 17.52m Georgia-Alabama - SEC CCG
Some yankee executives are kicking their selves.
This post was edited on 10/8/24 at 3:55 pm
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Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:10 pm to Landmass
Who would down vote this?
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:11 pm to Landmass
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Who would down vote this?
buckl probably
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:11 pm to Landmass
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Who would down vote this?
Ohio state boys.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:14 pm to Landmass
CBS doesn’t even get Ohio State-Oregon this week. Their games have been mostly trash other than USC-Michigan. The CBS production is really good though.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:16 pm to Landmass
I'm all for shitting on CBS, but their SEC schedule never started until Week 3 and Florida-Tennessee was usually the first game of the season.
Any comparison should probably start with Week 3.
Any comparison should probably start with Week 3.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:18 pm to Landmass
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Some yankee executives are kicking their selves.
Some Michigan grad gonna get fired over this one
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:20 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Who would down vote this?
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buckl probably
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:20 pm to Landmass
A CBS employee
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:54 pm to Landmass
Small sample size where the B10 game did poorly compared to the SEC game in week 3 but did well compared to the SEC game in week 4. Are we supposed to draw some conclusions from this?
Games before week 3 don’t look great, but there’s no direct comparison so hard to judge. CU - CSU is irrelevant because CBS had those rights (MWC) irrespective of the flip from SEC to B1G.
If conference matchups draw below 4 consistently then we will have something to talk about, but I imagine CBS execs are hopeful with that USC-Michigan number being comparable to some of the SEC’s bigger rivalry games last year.
ETA: I do think CBS screwed up by lowballing the SEC initially, and ending up with not first choice in the B1G for more money, but nothing from these ratings are alarming yet.
Games before week 3 don’t look great, but there’s no direct comparison so hard to judge. CU - CSU is irrelevant because CBS had those rights (MWC) irrespective of the flip from SEC to B1G.
If conference matchups draw below 4 consistently then we will have something to talk about, but I imagine CBS execs are hopeful with that USC-Michigan number being comparable to some of the SEC’s bigger rivalry games last year.
ETA: I do think CBS screwed up by lowballing the SEC initially, and ending up with not first choice in the B1G for more money, but nothing from these ratings are alarming yet.
This post was edited on 10/8/24 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:57 pm to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 10/8/24 at 4:58 pm to Landmass
To be fair, aside from USC-Michigan(which lost nation-wide appeal after the Texas demolition), those games are dog shite
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:11 pm to Landmass
Let CBS rot with their 3rd rate games that nobody watches. They wouldn’t pay the SEC for premium games. They do have good quality though with production. I like the fact that the SEC premium games weekly are in prime time every week through out the year.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:16 pm to Cocotheape
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…nothing from these ratings are alarming yet…
That is a truly dumb statement, even by rant standards.
I can see a CBS executive selling this to their board by saying, “We will get crushed in the ratings for the first three weeks every year, but then FOX will have a good B1G game and we can ride their coattails to get close enough to see the SEC taillights. I need the board to approve spending $350 million to have a smaller audience.”
That person would be lucky to not be thrown out the window of the boardroom.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:21 pm to Landmass
They helped build the SEC and right when it hit its "Pax SEC", they dumped it for the B10. A blunder on par with new Coke
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:23 pm to Landmass
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Who would down vote this?
Sometimes it’s more about the poster and less about the actual post
I actually don’t agree with this mentality but I did blindly downvote you
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:32 pm to Landmass
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Some yankee executives are kicking their selves.
Those guys are idiots.
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:35 pm to Landmass
Of course they did
AF Amy was on 230 last sat with nessler and Gary on the call
I was like oh how things have changed for cbs they Fkd up
AF Amy was on 230 last sat with nessler and Gary on the call
I was like oh how things have changed for cbs they Fkd up
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:47 pm to Lolathon234
Stanky hoodwinked CBS
Posted on 10/8/24 at 5:51 pm to Landmass
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CBS furked up - serious ratings decline
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