PBC on Spike ratings: 869,000 viewers 0.3 rating 18-49

[Da Machine]

Source was tvbythenumbers.

Not as good as i was hoping.

[croz]

that's pretty damn good for Spike. It's on par with what Bellator do, maybe slightly better. A card with Lopez-Berto on it was never going to be a rating smash. To put it into perspective Arreola's title fight on ESPN pulled around 900k on the much bigger network. Were people actually think that an event with him on the undercard for a smaller fight would lift the bar? Nobody on that card was capable of drawing in higher numbers so even reaching that number is quite impressive. That's better than 90% of the shows on Spike.

What exactly did you think it would do?

[mike1010011]

Excuse my ignorance,but could you explain these numbers in relation with the first broadcast?

[HanzGruber]

advertising for this is absoute ****.

I wouldnt of even known about it, if i didnt know there was fights on and went and found out where and when.

The casual would never even know about it unless they flipped past the channel.

I watch a fair amount of tv, never say anything.

i saw a pretty good amount of ads, tv and youtube.. some said on radio too

[Biolink]

I thought it came on Saturday night. The advertising for this could be much better.

[IIG]

It doesn't sound too bad for a Friday night card on Spike, but I don't really know. I'd love to see further analysis about it.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

Wow and people thought the NBC numbers were low. Lol

[The Gambler1981]

Well I think this got brought up but what it was replacing in their order was reruns of Cops.

Reruns of Cops are alright but that is not appointment television, that is something you stop on flipping around.

This Spike thing is a real challenge because it is not an established boxing outlet, so they have to build that and the network only has so many eyeballs in general.

PBC in general I think is a good idea, Spike TV I don't know if that was their brightest choice.

[croz]

Wow and people thought the NBC numbers were low. Lol

they're quite high for Spike. If it peaked over 1 million that would be incredible.

[Mitchell Kane]

Interesting rating.

Wonder how much they got in tv ads.

The fight card had nearly $2 million in purses"

Dan Rafael @danrafaelespn · Mar 13
Per CSAC purses from Friday's PBC card: Berto $800k, Lopez $450k, Porter $500k, Bone $150k, Arreola $20k, Harper $22,500 #boxing