Comments Thread For: Early Ratings: Thurman-Porter Most Watched Bout of 2016 To Date

[BennyBlanco]

Not here in the Imperial Valley time warner cable. Had to watch it online and it was sketchy, very dissapointing. CBS Time Warner cable sux!

You do realize it was on at 6pm on the west coast, right?

[bigdunny1]

They definitely reached 3M viewers.

For you neophytes, the preliminary Nielsen ratings, and the total viewership number, are for the prime time 9:00 - 11:00 pm time slot. As boxing fans know, the fight went past 11:25, meaning that almost half the main event - the most-watched part of the telecast - is not included in the preliminary rating or the viewership total.

Tomorrow they'll announce a peak of near or over 4M viewers.

The fight ended at 11:15pm and The peak for the entire fight was 2.6m. Also no guarantee the final ratings go up from the preliminary ratings. The last NBC card final ratings was lower then the preliminary. Either way it usually goes up or down slightly no chance they were off more then double (1.5m viewers)

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On Sunday morning, this press release was sent out by Showtime Sports regarding the television ratings for the broadcast carried on CBS. It read as follows:

“Saturday’s SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING on CBS, presented by Premier Boxing Champions; 9p – 11:30p Overnight Ratings

– The main event of Keith Thurman vs. Shawn Porter, WBA Welterweight World Championship, began with a 2.0 rating and grew to a 2.6 in final half hour.

– Ratings increased each half-hour from 9p –11: 30p showing growth throughout both broadcast bouts.

– Overall, the 2 ½ hour broadcast earned 1.8 overnight rating which is 80-percent higher than (Chris) Algieri vs. (Errol) Spence (Jr.) broadcast (April 2016).

– Complete viewership isn’t available at this time, but Saturday’s boxing event on CBS is likely to be the most watched boxing broadcast of 2016.”


On the surface, this certainly sounds great from that perspective but it was also pointed out to me that, with CBS averaging 2.117 million viewers, it was the lowest broadcast network debut to date. The PBC on FOX telecast with Danny Garcia-Robert Guerrero averaged 2.235 million. And they got beat handily in the ratings by Olympic Trials diving and “20/20” on ABC.

But hey, I guess it’s all in the way you look at things.

[bigdunny1]

In the US maybe but channel 5 cards have done bigger numbers in the past here in the UK.

Forget UK, 5 of the 9 cards PBC aired before this weekend did better then this. These ratings even by PBC standards are NOT that good.

NBC
3.37m Thurman/Guerrero
2.88m Garica/Peterson
2.33m Porter/Broner
2.2m Wilder/Duhaupas
1.8m Figueroa/Demarco
1.24m Spence/Algieri
1.2m Fonfara/Smith


FOX
2.24m Garcia/Guerrero
1.51m Berto/Ortiz

CBS
2.12m Thurman/Porter

[whitealltrac]

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Something to consider on these ratings is that there are millions of fans watching these free fights and PPV fights for free on Kodi and there is no way to track it, trust me everyone is cutting their cords with the firetv sticks.

The numbers are greater by much more than what is reported!

[Deevel916]

C'mon, man. Men's gymnastics was on at the same time on NBC. This is a great rating considering the competition.

Cant tell if you're joking or not. If not this is almost as bad as one poster blaming women's basketball for poor ratings.

[King_]

This was the best possible fight to have had on for somebody turning PBC/the tv on for the first time and watching boxing.

Action packed, football charges, easy for the average idiot, etc .

[BennyBlanco]

Canelo averaged 2.146mil viewers last March on HBO while only available in 25% of the homes that Porter-Thurman was. It's not a terrible number for Thurman but certainly not great. Very disappointing. I expectd 4mil. This fight was highly anticipated which Canelo Kirkland wasn't.

At least the action in the ring delivered so that it didn't turn off any new potential fans.

The Canelo "average" was for the main event only, which lasted all of 10 minutes. It's really more of a peak than an average.

Thurman-Porter's average of 2.1M viewers is over 2 hours. Average and peak will be much higher when they take the post 11 pm viewership into account.

[killakali]

Are you also including that approx. ~300k-400k who were already in a boxing mindframe and watched that Mayweather/Pac replay that was being broadcast on Showtime too then flipped over?

It was a boxing night one week after and included the replay of the biggest fight in boxing history. But yeah, let's just give Canelo all the credit.

lol not everyone who has showtime has hbo or vice versa smh. Let's just not give Canelo any credit even though his ratings in Mexico for years have been off the charts and better even than the national soccer team. The hate is real!

[killakali]

The Canelo "average" was for the main event only, which lasted all of 10 minutes. It's really more of a peak than an average.

Thurman-Porter's average of 2.1M viewers is over 2 hours. Average and peak will be much higher when they take the post 11 pm viewership into account.

exactly my point. The longer a fight goes the higher the ratings get. Canelo would have had even higher ratings if the fight would have last 3-4 more rounds

[BennyBlanco]

exactly my point. The longer a fight goes the higher the ratings get. Canelo would have had even higher ratings if the fight would have last 3-4 more rounds

That's not how ratings work.

What you're saying is the opposite of how it really works. It's easier to average 2M viewers over 10 minutes than it is to average 2M viewers over 55 minutes.

And it's much more valuable for a TV network for a program to average 2M viewers over 55 minutes than to average 2M viewers over 10 minutes.