(12-07-2023 11:55 AM)schmolik Wrote:  Excellent summary from Sports Media Watch...

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/12...-espn-nbc/





NBC definitely got the shaft when it came to the Big Ten. CBS had half as many games and a way higher average. FOX's "Big Nooners" include a few non Big 10 games including a few Deion games.

FS1 is supposedly in more homes than ESPN and yet they're lower than BTN now? That's pathetic.

With more advertising and better games, the CW could be promising for the ACC.

Pretty impressive that BTN is ahead of FS1 and ESPN2. I'd bet the SECN is even higher.

(12-07-2023 12:17 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Mississippi University for Women? Men's Basketball Team! You can't make this crap up!

https://owlsathletics.com/sports/mens-ba...urrows/156

Title IX!

(12-07-2023 11:55 AM)schmolik Wrote:  Excellent summary from Sports Media Watch...

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/12...-espn-nbc/





NBC definitely got the shaft when it came to the Big Ten. CBS had half as many games and a way higher average. FOX's "Big Nooners" include a few non Big 10 games including a few Deion games.

FS1 is supposedly in more homes than ESPN and yet they're lower than BTN now? That's pathetic.

With more advertising and better games, the CW could be promising for the ACC.

NBC did much, much better with lil' ole' Notre Dame playing at 3:30 with its 32 year old deal than it did with the much ballyhooed brand spanking new deal involving Big Ten prime time games.

I am old enough to recall the "conventional wisdom" of many people saying over the last one and half years that:


1) NBC would consider jettisoning or minimizing the ND deal since it signed the Big Ten deal,

2) ND would NEVER get NBC to renew the deal and pay north of $50 million a year for just six home games, and

3) The "fact" that ND could not get NBC to pay what it wanted meant that ND would have no choice but to abandon independence and join the Big Ten (at NBC's insistence and machinations).

It appears that "conventional wisdom" was full of dog crap.

(I predicted on here and elsewhere over that period that ND would re-sign with NBC for more than $50 million a year. What I got wrong is that I thought NBC would insist on a formal Big Ten scheduling deal to get there)

The ND/NBC relationship is strong and will get stronger:


"When Notre Dame and NBC announced last month that they were extending their broadcasting rights partnership through 2029, a footnote in the release mentioned that Peacock would be the home of “a new, annual documentary series on Notre Dame Football, debuting in 2024.”

It sounds like outgoing Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick confirmed some details of that docuseries on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Athletics Forum in Las Vegas, Swarbrick mentioned that the series will be their version of “Hard Knocks.”

“Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick says the Irish will produce a season-long documentary — “their own version of Hard Knocks” — over the coming years and have their own tile/channel on Peacock,” wrote Fox Sports’ Bryan Fischer on X, formerly Twitter.

That was the most obvious expectation of what the series would be, though given the cozy relationship between Notre Dame and NBC Sports, we have to imagine the university will have a pretty heavy hand in making sure things they don’t want being seen are cut.

Swarbrick also spent some time discussing how important it was for Notre Dame to do whatever it took to ensure they could remain independent in the years ahead.

“We don’t do it because it’s financially advantageous or competitively advantageous, we do it because of the value to the university,” Swarbrick said, via Fischer.

He also made it clear that his successor, Pete Bevacqua, shares those sentiments around remaining independent.

“Yes. Well, I think my successor has the same view as I do. If he has a career comparable to mine, it’ll be at least that long,” he said, via Brandon Marcello.

Interestingly, he added that NBC’s role in the new Big Ten rights deal also played a big part in making Notre Dame feel better about sticking with them.

“That was an important part of our decision, the fact that NBC acquired more college football rights,” Swarbrick said. “We were on a bit of an island.”

(So......thanks Big Ten, for the assist !!)

Remember all of this the next time you see someone say that Notre Dame has no choice but to join a conference or get left behind. They’re doing just fine and, no, they don’t."


https://awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...um=twitter

Meant to post that Mississippi University for Women comment in the Verbal Assault Thread.

(12-07-2023 01:07 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Meant to post that Mississippi University for Women comment in the Verbal Assault Thread.

What is done can not be undone

(12-07-2023 01:07 PM)schmolik Wrote:  Meant to post that Mississippi University for Women comment in the Verbal Assault Thread.

I hear they get great TV ratings.

The CW being so high and with the ACC's bottom of the barrel games is surprising for both brands, to me. Change a couple things for the second season, better games, more advertising, and maybe some double headers in and you could see close to a million average.

Digging deeper in the SMW article...

"In its final season, the “SEC on CBS” averaged a 3.5 and 6.73 million"

"In the first year of the new Big Ten rights deal, NBC trailed the conference’s two other over-the-air partners. CBS averaged a 1.9 and 3.55 million for its seven Big Ten games and FOX — buoyed by Ohio State-Michigan — averaged a 3.2 and 6.22 million for its 13."

The SEC finished ahead but it wasn't as big a gap as people would think.

CBS got the first pick every week but was limited to 5-6 Georgia games and 5-6 Alabama games and only one game a week. It didn't happen this year but last year Tennessee-Georgia and Alabama-LSU were the same week and CBS had to give one up and there might have been other weeks this season with similar cases. CBS also couldn't air Texas-Alabama because they didn't have the rights to Week 2.

FOX had the top three regular season Big Ten picks and all three this year had more viewers than any SEC regular season game (the SEC Championship Game had more viewers than all but Ohio State-Michigan).

If all the Big Ten first tier rights were on one network and all the SEC first tier rights were on one network and networks had no limitations or restrictions on appearances, I think it would be pretty close as to which network's 1st tier rights would be more valuable. For now, Michigan-Ohio State would always give the Big Ten value. The SEC's Michigan and Ohio State right now are Georgia and Alabama and unless they agree to play annually they don't have the one matchup that can match the Big Ten. They can only make up for it in depth and if Oregon and Washington stay strong the next few years the gap in depth will narrow.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/college...v-ratings/
Bowl season had 6 five million plus games so far. The Citrus Bowl made it. Fiesta was jut below. Tampa Bay was also close at 4.61 million.
Texas St.-Rice was the most watched G5 only bowl with 2.8 million. It was 19th of the 41 bowls.