Nielsen Media Ratings for Dawson vs. Pascal and Arreola vs. Quesada

[mrpain81]

A Week Late, Dollar Short Nielsen Media Ratings for HBO & Friday Night Fights


by John Chavez


Sorry for the delay boxing fans...

Here are the Nielsen Media Ratings for the most recent bouts to take place on Friday Night Fights as well as HBO World Championship Boxing:


8-13-2010 - ESPN2 Friday Night Fights - Chris Arreola vs. Manuel Quezada - 576,000 live viewers

8-14-2010 - HBO - Programming 30 minutes prior to Pascal-Dawson - 841,000 live viewers

8-14-2010 - HBO - Jean Pascal vs. Chad Dawson - 1.118 million live viewers

8-14-2010 - HBO - Programming immediately following Pascal-Dawson - 1.041 million live viewers




I'm not sure what to make of these figures to be honest.

We performed the same sort of figures for ESPN Friday Night Fights and saw a 300 percent increase in the amount of viewers tuning in the programming changed from tennis to boxing.

Now with HBO, we definitely see an increase in the amount of live viewers tuning into the Pascal-Dawson bout compared to those tuning in before and after the event... just the figures aren't as pronounced as ESPN.

I'll be getting the regular live figures for Saturday nights involving no boxing to get a better comparison.



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Decent ratings since Dawson had horrible viewers in his first 2 HBO appearances. Also the Arreola numbers were solid.

[ИATAS]

I'm not expert on this **** but it seems to me "good fights" tend to have good ratings. I think a lot of it, or at least some of it is people telling their friends "yo turn it to HBO hella good fight right now bro!"

:smileysex

[Rick Grimes]

Nielsen ratings are BS they estimate viewing figures from a group of people with boxes that send info on what they are watching back to them. Only 25,000 out of 114,500,000 homes in America have these boxes.

[Crazylegs77]

Didnt Tennis or whatever was on before the Arreola fight run over like 30-45 minutes? So that would influence the numbers I would assume.

[The Hammer]

Nielsen ratings are BS they estimate viewing figures from a group of people with boxes that send info on what they are watching back to them. Only 25,000 out of 114,500,000 homes in America have these boxes.

Good point.

[Battle Hardened]

Wow that's great, but boxing is dying... Remember?

I wonder what is causing boxing to be improving?

[Check]

Those are good numbers and it seems like HBO has been getting good ratings for their fights. Now if we could get the big fights we want to see, more fights on tv, and build more stars the sport could start to flourish once again.

[heat27]

good news...propz for this info

[Heru]

Nielsen ratings are BS they estimate viewing figures from a group of people with boxes that send info on what they are watching back to them. Only 25,000 out of 114,500,000 homes in America have these boxes.

Nielsen is still the standard used for television ratings in the US.

[Heru]

I just thought about it, so I could be wrong, but the problem with boxing is that even though it can get triple the ratings of tennis and movies for any given telecast, it probably costs more.

I'd like to know what the contracts are for ESPN to televise tennis, WNBA, etc. and compare them to the yearly budget for boxing.

I'd also like to know what the movies usually get in the slot and how much they cost to televise because I heard it cost HBO $1.6M (without all the other expenses) to televise Pascal-Dawson.