TV ratings for Fury-SS on Channel 5 UK

[croz]

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.

[croz]

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.

[Jam Jars]

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

[croz]

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

[Jam Jars]

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.

[mikinoki]

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

[croz]

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.

[croz]

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.

[Bodyshot3]

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?

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

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.