(09-26-2021 10:12 PM)DawgNBama Wrote:  

(09-26-2021 09:14 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(09-22-2021 01:51 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Sports Media Watch Week 3 Summary:
https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2021/09...enn-state/

"Last Saturday’s Alabama-Florida and Auburn-Penn State college football games were the fourth and fifth of the college football season to cross the seven million viewer mark, the most in the first three weeks of play since 2016 (also five). Last season, it took until mid-October before a single game averaged even six million."

"FS1 scored its best performance of the young season with a 0.9 and 1.83 million for Tulsa-Ohio State, up 47% and 57% respectively from 2019 (Iowa-Iowa State: 0.6, 1.17M) and its top game since Penn State-Indiana last October (1.0, 2.07M)."

Not only does FOX get higher viewership from the Big 10, so does FS1. How good was OSU's FS1 number? Two games that directly competed with the game were USC-Washington State (1.58 million on FOX, FS1 actually outdrew the OTA network!) and Florida State-Wake Forest (689K on ESPN, yikes!) Florida State can't even draw 1 million viewers at 3:30pm on ESPN now? Cincinnati-Indiana got 1.68M for a noon game. UCF-Louisville got 1.88M for a Friday night game.

"Rounding out the broadcast network coverage, Purdue-Notre Dame drew a 1.5 and 2.58 million on NBC — down 38% and 40% respectively from the network’s first Notre Dame game last season, against Duke (2.4, 4.32M)."

So Notre Dame's ratings are down from the pandemic year? Not a good sign. Duke is not that more popular than Purdue in football.

No one gives a damn about Purdue.

The Duke game last year was the opening game of a season that many thought would not happen.

How come Chicago wasn't a top market for the Notre Dame-Wisconsin game, TerryD?? I thought the Irish were a huge draw in the Windy City!!!

Nope. This reveals the truth that not a single ND fan lives in or near Chicago.

You have busted this thing wide open.

You should let the networks in on this Truth. They probably think that ND has fans there.

(I am always amazed that every single time for decades that there is good news about ND, someone will always find the negative in it, without fail. Bravo to you, sir)