Comments Thread For: HBO March 5 Doubleheader Averages 740,000 Viewers

[Cinci Champ]

Showtime pulling these ratings is the real problem
Williams-Matano 311K
Douglas-Khurtsidze 278K

HBO put out a cheap Boxing After Dark card where the headliner Ortiz actually did better ratings then his Boxing After Dark fight last year. And far greater ratings then Showtime got for Wilder a month or so ago which did 500k. Wilder was paid far more then Ortiz was paid yet HBO got better ratings. HBO put a cheap card that performed about average for Boxing After Dark fights (their cheapest of all boxing programming on HBO) I don't see where the shock is. Showtime on the other hand had fallen off a cliff. They went from competing head to head with HBO just over a year ago to now they are getting less then 50% in ratings. Their viewership is not slightly down it's completely left them. Cards that used to get 800k are getting 200k. Cards that were getting at or over 1m ratings are getting at or lower 500k.

showtime viewership is way down but they are losing their best fights to pbc and they have lost a ton of subscriptions because their inactivity. i think its a problem across the board personally

[Pigeons]

showtime viewership is way down but they are losing their best fights to pbc and they have lost a ton of subscriptions because their inactivity. i think its a problem across the board personally

No they haven't. 2013 was the best year Showtime ever had and in August 2013, they were in 28.1M homes (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...-august-2013/#). 2014 was the worst year Showtime ever had and the most recent count in July 2015 had Showtime in 28.7M homes (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/201...of-july-2015/#). That's an increase of 600K between August 2013 and July 2015.

It's really ignorant to believe that boxing has any effect on Showtime's subscriber base. Are some people subscribed to Showtime just for boxing? Sure. But that number is barely recognizable in the grand scope.

[TAZ-G]

Kovalev-Pascal 2 averaged less than 940k. The network is down overall

That's not true lol
http://www.boxingscene.com/kovalev-p...rs-hbo--100960

Sergey Kovalev began his 2016 campaign in the same manner in which he kicked off 2015 – with a stoppage win over Jean Pascal on January 30 at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada. The event fittingly produced nearly identical ratings results, as the sequel slightly outperformed the original in home viewership.

An average of 1.179 million viewers tuned in for Kovalev’s one-sided 7th round beatdown of Pascal in a three-belt light heavyweight fight that topped the 2016 season premiere of HBO World Championship Boxing. The event peaked at 1.269 million viewers.

[PKing]

That's not true lol
http://www.boxingscene.com/kovalev-p...rs-hbo--100960

The opening but between Mayfield and the Russian did 701k.

701k + 1.179M = 940k... dipshiet