Comments Thread For: 'PBC on FOX' Tripleheader Averaged 1.48 Million Viewers Saturday

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Many more viewers tuned in to watch the "PBC on FOX" tripleheader Saturday night than the last one. According to ratings released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research, an average audience of 1,483,000 watched a FOX boxing telecast that included victories by featherweight champions Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares. Viewership for the previous "PBC on FOX" tripleheader peaked at 1,039,000 viewers and averaged 886,000.
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[jonnyc420]

Solid numbers for Leo and Abner in mismatches

[Lou Cipher]

Absolutely horrendous. All the people that Haymon embezzled from must be dry-heaving in hospital bathrooms right now.

[bigdunny1]

The previous card was literally one of if not the lowest rating in history for a network prime time sporting event. So doing better then one of the worst in broadcast history is nothing to write home about. The bar is set really low for PBC these days. Their fox network deal expires in dec I cant see fox giving them a deal once the timebuy ends. FOX aired this because they were paid to. Their ratings have been worse then PBC got on NBC and those ratings were bad enough for NBC to cut ties with PBC when they stopped paying for the timebuy.

There is a reason why all the other networks stopped airing PBC after the timebuy ended and why all the best fights haymon has are being sent back to showtime instead of FOX (the last network still on a timebuy)

[Teetotaler]

Is it better than that average ufc fights on fox?

[bigdunny1]

Is it better than that average ufc fights on fox?

Nope not even close. last UFC on FOX card drew over 2M viewers (that's one of the UFC's lowest ratings). And the prelim on FS1 for that card drew 1.137M. And that's FS1 ratings. PBC does numbers on FOX comparable to what UFC does on FS1 for prelim fights. And PBC fights are infinitely more expensive look at the purses for these UFC fights on FOX compared to PBC. Why would FOX ever pay for something that's 10X more expensive and loses money every event while generating less ratings lol

[AdonisCreed]

Those aren't bad numbers considering college football is what everyone watches on Saturdays in the fall.

[Sheldon312]

The previous card was literally one of if not the lowest rating in history for a network prime time sporting event. So doing better then one of the worst in broadcast history is nothing to write home about. The bar is set really low for PBC these days. Their fox network deal expires in dec I cant see fox giving them a deal once the timebuy ends. FOX aired this because they were paid to. Their ratings have been worse then PBC got on NBC and those ratings were bad enough for NBC to cut ties with PBC when they stopped paying for the timebuy.

There is a reason why all the other networks stopped airing PBC after the timebuy ended and why all the best fights haymon has are being sent back to showtime instead of FOX (the last network still on a timebuy)

Crawford and Loma didn't do too well on ESPN either. Just face it. Boxing is dead in the states.

[BWC]

Nope not even close. last UFC on FOX card drew over 2M viewers (that's one of the UFC's lowest ratings). And the prelim on FS1 for that card drew 1.137M. And that's FS1 ratings. PBC does numbers on FOX comparable to what UFC does on FS1 for prelim fights. And PBC fights are infinitely more expensive look at the purses for these UFC fights on FOX compared to PBC. Why would FOX ever pay for something that's 10X more expensive and loses money every event while generating less ratings lol

That's simply not true. PBC does comparable ratings to the UFC across the Fox platform, especially this year with UFC ratings in the absolute tank..

[daggum]

That's simply not true. PBC does comparable ratings to the UFC across the Fox platform, especially this year with UFC ratings in the absolute tank..

so pbc does comparable with something that is tanking....and this is good why?