re: CBS furked up - serious ratings decline

frick off. Nothing dumber than seeing two weeks of relevant ratings and extrapolating out some fake board room scenario when you have zero idea what the cost of continuing an SEC package would’ve been.

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To be fair, aside from USC-Michigan(which lost nation-wide appeal after the Texas demolition), those games are dog shite

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Well yeah big 10 games are always dog shite

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Who would down vote this?

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Some butthurt, Northern ‘goners would be my guess.

We’re halfway though the season and not once have I even stopped on CBS to so much as check a score. I’ve watched a little Fox. But the vast majority of the football I’ve watched, and I watch every Sat. from 11 AM to about 10:30, has been ABC, ESPN, or SEC Network.

I’m loving the “just keep it on ABC all day for a great tripleheader” feeling I get on Saturdays now. No point in ever changing the channel. Just put it on ABC at 11 AM and let it ride all day.

I do miss the production quality of CBS. They are so good. I can’t believe they settled for the 2nd or 3rd best Big Ten game. Crazy

You started the ad hominem, so take the classy shite up with yourself

The rate where the numbers were higher YoY than the SEC last year for week 4? There is no rate, to be clear, they were lower in week 3 and higher in week 4 vs the same last year. That’s all we’ve got. CBS is a business so if they can sell ads vs what they paid for the rights at the rate of return they want (a simple concept you can’t see to understand) your fake boardroom will be happy.

Maybe it works out, maybe it doesn’t, but 2 weeks of comparable data isn’t going to decide whether a multi year deal is successful or not, but mongoloids on the rant can’t see beyond SEC good B10 bad so I’m not surprised you can’t grasp this. Nevermind that 2 weeks of data isnt even bad, the USC Michigan number is better than many traditional SEC rivalries from prior year.

Sankey needs to milk this for a huge contract

There's still a chance they can recover. Their executives have hit on a brilliant idea. Theyre going to hire a woke tranny spokesperson to appeal to a much wider audience and get away from these beerguzzlin redneck traditional football fans.

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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

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They also did not have exclusive rights to all conference games. They had first pick most weekends, but, iirc, they had swap arrangements with ESPN for several weekends so that they could do double-headers. Plus, afternoon games are a poor time to pick up casual viewers and the sports bar crowd.

CBS was already getting fricked by the SEC and their partnership with ESPN. They were limited on time slots and broadcast limits. It makes since they didn't overpay. ABC has pick of the entire lineup and can show 3 games on Saturday if they want. CBS couldn't do that.