Comments Thread For: Wilder-Szpilka TV Ratings Not Indicitave Of Overall Exposure

[Eff Pandas]

Wilder has never been a can't miss sort of prospect, he was a guy with potential but was so raw that him making it to any degree was never a great proposition.

So in one sense they have hit big with him because he has to a large degree made it

Solid point & I'd agree, If Wilder won his last fight last weekend his career has been a success just by being a champion with 3 defenses as of now.

[Pigeons]

How would the non-subscriber, free weekend viewers not be counted in the Nielsen ratings?

I'm pretty sure they are mostly based off surveys (I've actually done them once, they send you a few bucks, and a booklet to fill out for a week, and a pre-paid envelope.

It isn't true that what you watch on TV is actually monitored, despite the misconceptions. They rely on survey data.

If the person watched Showtime on a free preview weekend and isn't a subscriber, it wouldn't be excluded, as far as I'm aware.

The survey method was replaced with the People Meter in 1987.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_meter

At the start of the year there was a new update to the system with Expanded Tuning-Only ratings.

http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/monday-fast-nationals-delayed-nielsen-sorts-out-massive-change-to-ratings-methodology.html

This isn't the first time I've heard that free preview viewers don't count in the ratings, but I've never read an explanation as to why not.

[kej718]

Am I the only one that watched it on Showtimes YouTube channel?

[Pigeons]

Am I the only one that watched it on Showtimes YouTube channel?

I think someone posted that the peak on the Youtube channel was 22K. I wonder how many unique views they had.

[Scipio2009]

But there is that Bulls/Cavaliers NBA game on ABC tonight to compete with.

An almost midseason NBA game, with interest generally confined to the Chicago and Cleveland media markets, isn't going to draw 33m viewers and suck up the entire casual sports fan audience.

[Scipio2009]

Am I the only one that watched it on Showtimes YouTube channel?

Missed the live broadcast of the fight (in transit), so I ended up watching the fight shortly after the broadcast on Showtime's Youtube channel. Didn't screen shot the number, but pretty sure the count was up to 200k views by the time I saw the fight.

[LOCOMEX89]

^^^this, kinda.

In my mind, the whole PBC effort always seemed destined to end up with CBS/Showtime being the network to sign the main deal (Saturday afternoon boxing when football season is over, 5-8 primetime broadcasts, smaller shows/vignettes for other fight cards, to give folks a reason to pick up CBSSportsNetwork, and Showtime being the venue to take advantage of whatever pay fights end up emerging).

The thing that's changed, however, is that I now see PBC picking up the rest of the supporting programming contracts. Saturday Night Fights (PBC on ESPN), Friday Night Lights Out (PBC on SpikeTV), Toe-to-Toe Tuedays (PBC on FS1), and the BounceTV fights cards are all deals that I see being picked up by their respective channels.

I can see that. Still on the fence about ESPN but the others that you mentioned I agree with.