PBC ratings on CBS

[kiaba360]

ESPN numbers, you do the comparison:

"ESPN's most-watched and highest-rated fight across all ESPN networks in 2014 was the May 10 WBC World Heavyweight Championship fight between Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola televised on ESPN. The fight saw an average audience of 940,000 viewers (P2+) and delivered a 0.7 HH US rating, making it the highest-rated and most-viewed fight on ESPN and ESPN2 since 2006."

Source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...oxcino/344748/

So Friday Night Fight's most watched event in 2014 did less numbers than last weekend's CBS PBC event.

But the FNF card probably cost less to produce than the PBC card.

[HeroBando]

Damn you're right, that HW bout was on a Saturday but then that was still their best boxing ratings on ESPN for all of 2014.

Yeah I meant espn2. Pbc beat them in ratings but they spend like 50x more for 2 or 3x the ratings

[-Kev-]

The guys who fight there are largely unknown. Wasn't there good ratings when Broner and Thurman fought on the same card?

[Mitchell Kane]

ESPN numbers, you do the comparison:

"ESPN's most-watched and highest-rated fight across all ESPN networks in 2014 was the May 10 WBC World Heavyweight Championship fight between Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola televised on ESPN. The fight saw an average audience of 940,000 viewers (P2+) and delivered a 0.7 HH US rating, making it the highest-rated and most-viewed fight on ESPN and ESPN2 since 2006."

Source: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...oxcino/344748/

So ESPN's most watched event in 2014 did less numbers than last weekend's CBS PBC event.

For that Stiverne-Arreola II fight, which was well over the budget of FNF, Stiverne got $225,000 and Arreola got $100,000.

That's not even close to what was paid for Thurman-Collazo ($1.5 million for Thurman, $500,000 for Collazo).

[kiaba360]

The guys who fight there are largely unknown. Wasn't there good ratings when Broner and Thurman fought on the same card?

The debut broadcast on primetime NBC (Thurman/Guerrero, Broner/Molina) still holds the highest ratings iirc.

CBS cards: Stevenson/Bika, Figueroa/Burns, Barthelemy/DeMarco, Frampton/Gonzalez.

[SlySlickSmooth]

But the FNF card probably cost less to produce than the PBC card.

Yeah that's the main issue with PBC. Practically all the cards are meant to showcase Haymon fighters and he pays his fighters a lot. We don't know how much money Haymon really has to blow but he's definitely spending a **** ton for air time on multiple networks while paying his fighters upwards of 600k+ a fight.

Biggest issue with PBC for casuals is the timing/schedules. Friday Night Fights was.. Friday night, fights.

[Vasyl’s dad]

PBC should just close up shop and allow things to return to the good old days. You guys remember the good old days when we saw 12 fights a year on Showtime and HBO and three PPV events, and we could count on the fact that three off those 15 events would be competitive fights between A-level opponents that were actually worth staying home on Saturday night to watch..

If you were a real boxing fan, you would have been watching boxing on cable stations like the rest of us. There have always been Golden Boy, Top Rank cards on cable along with the Mexican stations. But because those guys didn't use buzzwords like "free TV", you didn't watch. Or was it because they weren't black managers pretending not to be promoters?

[Vasyl’s dad]

hard to say its poor, its probably average for the timeslot for anything other than College Football. You dont put those fights together at that timeslot and except millions to tune in. Thats just not going to happen

Many of us said that at the very beginning. You and others called us haters for using logic.

[Bigg Rigg]

Sad cause both scraps were good, can't wait to see Frampton again.

Agree. I like Frampton.

[Scipio2009]

would wait for the full numbers to come out

Interesting that, after all of the typical hoopla that comes on here from the initial estimates, people's comments tend to mum up once the full numbers come out, and the viewership totals end up just in line with or exceeding what viewership would've been on HBO/Showtime. Things go even quieter when the telecast ends up leading/in top five of viewership by the 18-54 demo.

have fun

edit: the CBS afternoon cards, and most of the afternoon cards in general, have likely been on budgets that weren't all that skewed away from what is currently being paid by HBO.