TV ratings for Fury-SS on Channel 5 UK

BBC won't be touching pro boxing after 'Harrisongate' for years to come.... ...Audley's best professional result is still stiffing a major international broadcaster for £1M to watch him learn how to fight without a headguard. Fury is also way too mouthy and unpredictable for the BBC. ITV is the natural home for Tyson, but they've mortgaged the whole rickety shop on European soccer and we've got decades of working-class Turks, Portugeese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians chasing a pig's bladder about to look forward too. BBC and ITV had two main reasons for scrapping boxing 1. Advertisers who book later rounds may not get their moneys worth if it ends early 2. We invest in promoting a fighter then they go jump ship to another network or PPV. Likewise, if they start fighting in the states it means a late night timeslot in the UK which doesn't make the promotional efforts worthy it

update: the original numbers said Fury vs SS averaged 1.1m and peaked at 1.45 It now looks to have averaged 1.54m with a so far unknown peak. It came second for the week on channel 5. In other words if C5 want to get rid of boxing they will have no truly justifiable reason for doing so.

BBC won't be touching pro boxing after 'Harrisongate' for years to come.... ...Audley's best professional result is still stiffing a major international broadcaster for £1M to watch him learn how to fight without a headguard. Fury is also way too mouthy and unpredictable for the BBC. ITV is the natural home for Tyson, but they've mortgaged the whole rickety shop on European soccer and we've got decades of working-class Turks, Portugeese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians chasing a pig's bladder about to look forward too. Audley is a convenient excuse for the BBC. The reality is that it's posh boys looking out for posh boys.

Interesting times for the Channel 5 folks... ....they've got a guy who is possibly just a couple of fights away from the Heavyweight Championship, he's unbeaten, outspoken and even slightly eccentric and always exciting. They also happen to have De Gale, Eubank Jr and Tyson's cousin on the payroll as well, and are also the only free-to-air UK channel showing boxing. But Fury and Hennessey will now want some serious money as they close-in on a mega-fight with the K brothers. Just being on TV and getting £60,000 quid per-fight won't be enough. Do Channel 5 dig deep and continue to back the Fury rollercoaster...or do they step back and let someone else, who does pay-per-view or subscriptions take the fights? How do you know they get £60,000 per fight?

Interesting times for the Channel 5 folks... ....they've got a guy who is possibly just a couple of fights away from the Heavyweight Championship, he's unbeaten, outspoken and even slightly eccentric and always exciting. They also happen to have De Gale, Eubank Jr and Tyson's cousin on the payroll as well, and are also the only free-to-air UK channel showing boxing. But Fury and Hennessey will now want some serious money as they close-in on a mega-fight with the K brothers. Just being on TV and getting £60,000 quid per-fight won't be enough. Do Channel 5 dig deep and continue to back the Fury rollercoaster...or do they step back and let someone else, who does pay-per-view or subscriptions take the fights? Do they still have the primetime ppv outlet? A fury vs Klitschko fight would surely go on Primetime, hopefully with major advertising on C5

BBC won't be touching pro boxing after 'Harrisongate' for years to come.... ...Audley's best professional result is still stiffing a major international broadcaster for £1M to watch him learn how to fight without a headguard. Fury is also way too mouthy and unpredictable for the BBC. ITV is the natural home for Tyson, but they've mortgaged the whole rickety shop on European soccer and we've got decades of working-class Turks, Portugeese, Germans, Spaniards and Italians chasing a pig's bladder about to look forward too.

It's good stuff for Channel 5. Obviously if the BBC picked it up the numbers would be a lot better but they're only interested in public schoolboys playing rugby.

Interesting times for the Channel 5 folks... ....they've got a guy who is possibly just a couple of fights away from the Heavyweight Championship, he's unbeaten, outspoken and even slightly eccentric and always exciting. They also happen to have De Gale, Eubank Jr and Tyson's cousin on the payroll as well, and are also the only free-to-air UK channel showing boxing. But Fury and Hennessey will now want some serious money as they close-in on a mega-fight with the K brothers. Just being on TV and getting £60,000 quid per-fight won't be enough. Do Channel 5 dig deep and continue to back the Fury rollercoaster...or do they step back and let someone else, who does pay-per-view or subscriptions take the fights?

And that's why they put live events on there so people stay home. The young demographic won't stay home for a scripted drama because they can watch it another time but they will stay for a live event.And that makes it valuable to the networks and advertisers Saturday is the worst day for TV. It's not debatable. A Saturday night timeslot is called the graveyard slot. Boxing promoters don't know how to negotiate timeslots worth a **** cause they came crawling out of a different era and refused to change, or just didn't notice that everything else changed around them.

You're not even from the UK so you wouldn't know. 1.3 mil viewers for a 10pm Saturday night show isn't "good" why do you think the other national TV channels want nothing to do with boxing. Channel 5 gets the rights for Fury fights cheap because others aren't interested and they were still seriously considering dropping boxing altogether. I just posted the ****ing list of the top ten for the week you dip ****. It's clearly a top ten number. Only 5 shows on channel 5 managed to get more than 1.3 million. Getting top 5 isn't bombing. Bombing would be something like what MMA on C5 did with a pathetic 200k viewers. You also changed the 1.4 million number to 1.3 million somehow.

Saturday is the worst day to attract young people. You just won't get a big market for the young on Saturday since most tend to be out. Saturday TV is usually a dead zone. And that's why they put live events on there so people stay home. The young demographic won't stay home for a scripted drama because they can watch it another time but they will stay for a live event.And that makes it valuable to the networks and advertisers

:ugh: :smashfrea You're not even from the UK so you wouldn't know. 1.3 mil viewers for a 10pm Saturday night show isn't "good" why do you think the other national TV channels want nothing to do with boxing. Channel 5 gets the rights for Fury fights cheap because others aren't interested and they were still seriously considering dropping boxing altogether.

Being in the top 5 on channel 5 isn't anything to shout about, garbage and repeats are the only thing they show. LOL :ugh: :smashfrea

can you read? Did you not just look at the list of TV ratings for the week on Channel 5 that I just posted? It was the big block of text in the exact post you quoted. Sweet Jesus. Being in the top 5 on channel 5 isn't anything to shout about, garbage and repeats are the only thing they show. LOL

It's the networks not the promoters.They need to atract the young demographic with live events that's why it's on saturday Saturday is the worst day to attract young people. You just won't get a big market for the young on Saturday since most tend to be out. Saturday TV is usually a dead zone.

A domestic fight is obviously going to pull more. You seem very down on Fury for some reason. Also that was boxing's debut, which is bound to get higher. And Chisora is also a big name in himself. These are great ratings for channel 5.

The fight started at 10pm. The numbers are rubbish for a fight shown on national TV. Khan used to get 10 million, even Froch v Pascal did 3. can you read? Did you not just look at the list of TV ratings for the week on Channel 5 that I just posted? It was the big block of text in the exact post you quoted. Sweet Jesus.

Fury-Chisora did 3 million on channel 5. Fury just isn't a draw. A domestic fight is obviously going to pull more. You seem very down on Fury for some reason.

They were on ITV, a more popular channel (especially back then with no Freeview available to all). Khan was also an Olympic medallist which didn't hurt. Fury-Chisora did 3 million on channel 5. Fury just isn't a draw.

It's the networks not the promoters.They need to atract the young demographic with live events that's why it's on saturday