According to Sportsbusinessdaily.
Last year was a 0.7.
According to Sportsbusinessdaily.
Last year was a 0.7.
I can appreciate the gain... but those numbers suck.Originally Posted by jackinbox
They must be crying about the competition from the Cup race, and whatever excuse people here love to use. Many people will think they were great if attached to their series. We'll see what Texas holds.
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I was under the impression that they were drawing about that much on Speed at 8am. Maybe not.
Or does Speed still use those bogus adjustments for their reach? Those are cool if they let you know that's what they're doing, but when their story gets picked up by other media, that number gets treated as a full market number, which it ain't.
I've watched more F-1 this season than the last 5 yrs combined.
They've got tremendous parity in cars and drivers, either through pure dumb luck or brilliant technical configuration of the rules.
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that race showed a pit stop strategy race can be quite exciting. Was interesting to see how the different strategies played out and how they affected the final 5 laps
I enjoyed it... just surprised the rating was so low.
They're about where they should be. There's no promotion of F1 in America so you're not going to get much in the way of new or even casual fans, despite being on Fox on a Sunday afternoon.
I did briefly wonder if there would be ANY value in occupying Fox's NASCAR timeslot the first week after it left that network, but I couldn't see any. Obviously all the NASCAR watchers would have gone to TNT.
And btw the TNT coverage is so much better. Less is more.
Hey, I'm surprised it was that high and I LOVE F1.
And you've witnessed some excellent racing. If quality of racing & ratings were equal then F1 would have the highest ratings of any nationally televised series in the US this year.
And with the Fox tie-ins it was nice to see Hamilton get some tv face time on a late night show.
I think that's a really good description of the race. The casual viewer would say it was a pit stop strategy race... but yeah, it was a damn exciting race that had some pit strategy calls that played into the finish.
Still doesn't take away that it was a fantastic race.
I think that's a really good description of the race. The casual viewer would say it was a pit stop strategy race... but yeah, it was a damn exciting race that had some pit strategy calls that played into the finish.
Still doesn't take away that it was a fantastic race.
This is exactly what I would say as well - word for word.
The reality is the numbers are dropping yet you call the deal 'ahead of its time'. The only end result that can be drerived from that is the series will be broke 'ahead of its time'.
It was pit stop strategy that still resulted in on track action. There was nothing like the that going in among the top 5 or 10 at Belle Isle.
That's about the ceiling for a road racing audience in this country.
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Except that the race was actually in Canada and you yourself are fond of pointing out how everything that actually takes place in America is better and will do better than events that don't.
And also except that St. Pete last year drew a 1.2 Final
I guess the ceiling tends to be a little higher than 1.1 when you have better depth perception
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Didn't the USGP at Indy get a 2 once or twice?
I seem to recall CART non-ovals doing that or better as well.
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For a race in a foreign country?
Canada isn't that foreign, and it was in a good time slot.
I agree, but it was up against Sprint Cup at Pocono. 5-6 million race fans were likely watching that.
Funny part about the broadcast to me was that apparently the commentators were not allowed to use the phrase DRS on the "big network" broadcast. Pretty cute to hear Hobbs always say "wing opening."
F1, whether on Fox or Speed attracts some pretty big-time sponsors. No BMW or Mercedes ads for Indycar yet, despite the wannabes and washouts.
Fairly interesting 180-degree turn of events, as in NASCAR the pole-sitter won for the 1st time in a long time whereas in F1 the pole-sitter finished off the podium. Who'd have thunk that?
Honda isn't a big-time sponsor? Chevy isn't a big-time sponsor? Verizon isn't a big-time sponsor?
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Have you been to Montreal before? Its pretty foreign, even if you can drive there in a day from NYC.
I have actually. And yes it's closer to a European city than most others, but having a sporting event in Canada that is part of a US league doesn't turn away TV viewers. Hell NASCAR goes there.
Just curious, does anyone know what the final rating was?
NASCAR had 5.3 million viewers watching on TNT tho... the highest rated sporting event not called the NBA conference finals.
Last edited by doitagain; 06-14-2012 at 07:51 PM.
5.3 million, where does that fall on the DOOMED meter?
Undoomed?
Jenna says she didn't ask because she knew it would be low (IICS), based on NHL and NBA air at the same time.
Perhaps we're ignoring the "people who don't have anything to watch at this moment" audience. Maybe the science is finding those empty spots where sports fans have nothing "sports" to watch.
IOW... how the heck ARE they getting millions of people to watch reruns of poker.
Sportscenter was drawing 5 million viewers this week, following playoff games.
Nope.
That's about the ceiling.
1.1 or 1.2 is about all F1 has EVER gotten on FOX, for its live telecasts (which has usually only been the Canadian and US GP's). A couple of points variance here and there, depending upon competition on other networks.
Sorry for bringing more facts into arguments.
And that's for a race in another country, with no American teams, talent or manufacturers
Is that double or triple the last USAC rating?
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