Comments on: Nielsen Ratings For Chelsea v Burnley ESPN2 Game

By: Gaz

Gaz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:53:51 +0000

England V. Slovenia game is on Fox Soccer. US V. El Salvador game on ESPN classic.

At least last time I checked.

By: leviramsey

leviramsey — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:11:19 +0000

USA Today normally publishes national TV ratings for games each weekend.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/weekend-tv-ratings.htm

This week, they only picked golf, little league world series, and NFL preseason games, all with terrestrial broadcasts.

Sunday afternoon golf on CBS got 2.8 million viewers
Sunday afternoon LLWS on ABC got 2.2 million viewers
Sunday night NFL on NBC got 5.6 million viewers
Friday night NFL on CBS got 3.8 million viewers

All of those figures were up massively from last year’s equivalent broadcasts (perhaps a sign that Americans are staying home more on weekends due to the economy). When you consider that weekend afternoons and prime time slots get far more viewership (even a 10am eastern game is still on when most of the west coast is just waking up!), for the EPL to be getting a tenth, more or less, of the other sports broadcasts is good news.

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:52:19 +0000

ESPN US ads are being featured on BBC Sport and tons of other soccer websites out there.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: sucka99

sucka99 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:48:41 +0000

ESPN US or ESPN UK?

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:33:41 +0000

ESPN has definitely been advertising the EPL a heck of a lot on the Internet. Everywhere I go, including BBC Sport, I see banner advertisements — which is a great sign.

Gaz, I’ll see what I can do regarding the US and England game — but I believe the England game is on PPV, so I may not be able to get those numbers.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:31:37 +0000

Paul, unfortunately not. I have no access to Nielsen Ratings (it costs thousands of dollars). Sorry

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:29:48 +0000

Sam, I’m going to sound like a broken record with this (sorry), but I don’t have access to Nielsen Ratings to find out what the ratings were for other sports programming events.

The other questions are equally as interesting but would require entire articles to answer them. In short, no word from ESPN yet but they may be waiting to see how well the ratings do as the season progresses before making public statements in case the EPL ratings are a flash in the pan (which we know they will not be).

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: Panda

Panda — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:40:14 +0000

Sadly they do not give them a full highlight, unless of course the game warrants it. They have featured in the past a goal or save in their top plays of the night on the Saturday 11pm SportsCenter.

Even worse, there continues to be that soccer backlash/distaste being spewed by ESPN personalities when it comes to soccer. Everytime I’ve seen an ESPN studio either hand off their coverage or follow soccer programming…there’s a strong level of disdain in how they say the word soccer.

The only ESPN personality truly embracing ESPN’s coverage is Colin Cowherd…who for years was a loud douchebag that hated on the sport. Now he’s just a loud douchebag that loves soccer.

By: Gaz

Gaz — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:31:37 +0000

I just wonder if ESPN is planning on spending a little money on advertising these games or if they are happy just to let the existing fan-base watch and spread word themselves. I know they had one commercial developed but I’ve never seen it on TV.

Also, has anyone noticed an increase (by that I mean ANY) in the coverage of EPL games by Sports Center? Now that ESPN has the rights to these games do they at least show a 2 minute goal summary?

Gaffer: will you get the ratings for the US and England game?

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:00:39 +0000

I drove from New York on I-95 and followed it down to Florida

Cheers,
The Gaffer