Comments Thread For: ESPN: Garcia-Malignaggi Peaked Near 1.5 Million Viewers

[richardt]

ESPN2 Friday Night Fights should have reinvented themselves because this shows what could have been for ESPN2, or ESPN.

[mrdogtown1975]

Well Santa Cruz-Mares is a fight everyone has wanted to see and their is no other big fight that night so well how good those numbers are

This is very true. If there was no UFC event on the same night, Danny vs Paulie might have had several more hundred.
Not bad IMO

[MrRolltide91]

good numbers

[Cinci Champ]

ESPN2 Friday Night Fights should have reinvented themselves because this shows what could have been for ESPN2, or ESPN.

lol this is espn friday night fights reinventing themselves what do u mean they are about to be getting better and better fights

[Cinci Champ]

What splash? No third party is saying ESPN got good ratings. The news today is that the UFC dominated with the prelim. Nobody is talking about PBC but die hard fans. All the independent reports on Saturdays tv ratings talking about the UFC. They made the splash with a slither of the budget PBC just spent. And if the ratings are so good then where are the TV advertisement deals for PBC? 5-10 years? Bad TV ratings little to no TV advertisement and 2 mega lawsuits, huge backlash from fans over mismatches. You could make the case everything that could go wrong has gone wrong the first 6 months. 1mil rating on ESPN after they jammed the fight down there views throat on sportscenter and there other shows like first take is not a success.

who cares about the ufc i mean honestly who gives a **** so they got ronda rousey it means nothing to me if they have a fighter do well and they get ratings i honestly could care less it means nothing to me boxing is my sport not ufc

[MC Hammer]

People want so bad for this to fail. I don't understand it. If this was Arum's creation it would be the greatest thing since slice bread.

[richardt]

lol this is espn friday night fights reinventing themselves what do u mean they are about to be getting better and better fights

No it's PBC injections. ESPN2 Friday Night Fights is history. Not saying this is a bad thing, PBC is doing great. Just that the ESPN2 Friday Night Fights of the past had issues that caused them to go downhill. PBC looks to be better by a stretch.

[Mitchell Kane]

The largest boxing audience on ESPN since 1998.

How many fights have been on regular ESPN since 1998?

[Mitchell Kane]

You have to subscribe to ESPN it's not a free channel. They have subscribers I just don't think the price is as high as HBO and it's far more popular content.

ESPN is a subsription channel, but it's not indivually subscribed to like HBO is.

ESPN is usually bundled with other cable channels, though it costs far more than most other channels, and in part because of the growing costs of both ESPN, individually, and the bundles, overall, there's a growing number of people who are no longer subscribing to ESPN.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...rks-post-gains

Disney Falls as Revenue Misses, Cable Profit Outlook Darkens

The company is facing two challenges: fewer subscribers at cable networks such as ESPN, its biggest business, and foreign exchange losses from the strong dollar that are cutting results for both cable TV and international theme parks. The warning unsettled investors accustomed to stellar sales and profit from the Burbank, California-based company.

Investors have become increasingly concerned about what kind of growth, if any, they can count on for ESPN going forward, said Paul Sweeney, a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst. This guidance cut will not allay any of those fears.

ESPN is wrestling with a shrinking subscriber base and rising program costs. The network's pay-TV customers declined 4.3 percent to 94.6 million last year from 98.8 million in 2012, according to SNL Kagan data.