Re: ESPN Gets Punished For Mixing That Little Homosexual Ryan Seacrest With College Football

Peter Swallow kirjutas teisipäev, 5. jaanuar 2016 kl 13:50:12 UTC+2:
> What happens when you mix Ryan Seacrest with college football? 
> Bad TV ratings. 
> 
> As Richard Sandomir reported two days ago, Clemson’s 37-17 
> victory over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, which started at 4 
> p.m. Eastern, was seen by an average of 15.6 million viewers, a 
> 45% decrease from the 28.2 million for the 2015 Rose Bowl, the 
> semifinal game played in the comparable time slot on Jan. 1. The 
> second semifinal, Alabama’s 38-0 rout of Michigan State, 
> averaged almost 18.6 million viewers in prime time, down 34% 
> from the nearly 28.3 million for the Sugar Bowl last season. 
> 
> Walt Disney DIS -0.95% owned ESPN paid $7.3 billion over 12 
> years for the rights to the new championship game and the six 
> bowl games that take turns hosting the two semifinals—an average 
> annual cost of $608 million. The suits there are trying to 
> justify the crappy ratings by pointed to strong tune-in for its 
> games on the Watch ESPN app, as Thursday’s semifinals added 
> 313,000 average minute impressions to the TV audience, had 1.12 
> million unique viewers and more than 67 million minutes watched. 
> Compared to last year’s New Year’s Day semifinals, this was up 
> 67%, 29% and 58%, respectively. 
> 

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> I am not buying it and I don’t think Wall Street will either, 
> regardless of what the ratings for the January 11 championship 
> game between Alabama and Clemson are. People don’t care about 
> watching college football on the biggest amateur party night 
> during the year. ESPN knew that and tried to make up for it by 
> shoving Ryan Seacrest and ABC’s coverage of New Year’s down our 
> throat during ESPN’s football telecasts. It made me sick. And a 
> lot of other people: the prime time audience for “Dick Clark’s 
> New Year’s Rockin’ Eve Seacrest” on ABC fell 23.4%, to 9.8 
> million viewers. 
> 
> ESPN tried to get both audiences and got neither. Look for Wall 
> Street to beat up Mickey Mouse next week. 
> 
> Comments: 
> 
> Arthur Vandelay 9 hours ago 
> we are all tired of Ryan Seacrest 
> 
> http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/01/03/espn-gets- 
> punished-for-mixing-ryan-seacrest-with-college-football/