Lockback posted:

Did anyone ever figure out why Chris Carter got fired from Fox?

DJExile posted:

Jack Patterson, a local reporter from Columbus, GA, was having a brutal time with his recorded stand-up recap of the Alabama/LSU game, then runs into Marty Smith from ESPN:

https://twitter.com/JPattersonTV/status/1194095819655393284

If you have worked any sort of news or sports segments like these, this is the realest fuckin' thing. Recorded stand-ups are the loving woooorrrrrrst.


https://twitter.com/rexcastillotv/status/1194104970246795265

OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:

sportsgenius86 posted:

He’s my new favorite for rocking the Kenny Omega shirt

Gigi Galli posted:

That was quick

Crazy Ted posted:

It's incredible to think that what used to be Tucker Carlson's claim to fame was that he was known as a dorky-looking, bow-tie-wearing, policy wonk of a Conservative who spent his TV time on CNN and MSNBC because he was considered too liberal for Fox.

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/BenFischerSBJ/status/1194681606306295808

lmao oh boy

Niwrad posted:

The solution is shortening the schedule but they'll never do that.

Kibner posted:

If the league tries to exert this pressure, start expecting more populated injury reports, leading to the same issue. It's not going to change unless the schedule changes.

Rick posted:

Man people just write poo poo about ratings and hope no one bothers to look it up all the time. NBA ratings are very solid, seem to be up, not down and it's even stronger if you excuse all the Warrior games that don't have super high ratings for obvious reasons.

MourningView posted:

They're done from a couple years ago but I think it's mostly just LeBron moving to a west coast team.

MourningView posted:

They're done from a couple years ago but I think it's mostly just LeBron moving to a west coast team.

quote:

NBA viewership is down 26% on TNT and 6% on ESPN one month into the season. Much of the sharp decline can be attributed to LeBron James’ move to the Western Conference, which has hit viewership for the early-window primetime NBA telecasts particularly hard so far. TNT is averaging 1.79 million viewers after 12 game telecasts, the net’s slowest start to a season in at least a decade.

…For TNT’s early windows this season to date, the net is averaging 1.61 million viewers compared to 2.75 million viewers at the same point last season (zero James games this year vs. two in ’17). But the late windows, which feature more prominent Western Conference teams, are seeing a less-pronounced drop, with two Lakers games to date. Meanwhile, ESPN is down 6% overall after 18 telecasts, averaging 1.69 million viewers compared to 1.79 million. But the net is up compared to the same time frame two years ago (1.61 million viewers for 14 games) … Similar to TNT, ESPN’s early window is seeing a drop (-16%), as there were three Cavaliers/James games at this point last year compared to zero Lakers/James games in the early window so far this season

Lockback posted:

Giving Golden State and New Orleans a combined 72 national TV games was probably not a good thing in hindsight.

DJExile posted:

Wasn't hard to see why they gave New Orleans a bunch, didn't Zion only get hurt like right before the season started?

DJExile posted:

Wasn't hard to see why they gave New Orleans a bunch, didn't Zion only get hurt like right before the season started?

Bird in a Blender posted:

Yea, I'd be surprised if the NBA wasn't down considering nearly every big star is on the west coast now, and two of the largest markets have terrible teams (Knicks and Bulls).

DJExile posted:

Wasn't hard to see why they gave New Orleans a bunch, didn't Zion only get hurt like right before the season started?

quote:

And while there will be plenty of emotion inside the arena for Porzingis and interest in how the Fizdale situation turns out, Harlan said that the national audience doesn’t really care that much.

“The Knicks nationally have been so irrelevant that I don’t really even think they draw a ripple,” he said. “Maybe a snicker because people are just amused at the constant chaos that seems to surround the team in trying to get themselves in gear. But nationally, it probably doesn’t go much beyond that. When they had Carmelo Anthony, they were a story. Porzingis, when they had him, he’s a story.”

And while Harlan acknowledges that New York brought in free agents Marcus Morris and Julius Randle and drafted Duke’s R.J. Barrett third overall, the casual fan tuning in may not know much about the Knicks.

“Right now, you’d be hard-pressed for NBA fans to name who is on the team,” he said.

quote:

Casual fans, Harlan said, are focused on bigger NBA storylines early in the season like LeBron James and Anthony Davis in Los Angeles, James Harden and Russell Westbrook in Houston and Doncic in Dallas.

“You’ve gotta be sensitive to what your national audience wants to see, what will appeal to them,” he said. “It’s the same old, same old New York, same issues, same turbulence, same things that continually just regenerate.”

Fans will tune in to see how Porzingis is received by the New York crowd and how he’ll perform under the spotlight, but Harlan said the focus should and will be on Doncic, who’s averaging nearly a triple-double per game early on in the season at age 20.

“Really what I think the country will care about tonight on our broadcast is going to be Doncic,” Harlan said, “because he’s not on our air all that much, he’s not on national TV all that much, but he is a huge story.”

What won’t be the main thrust of the TNT game presentation Thursday night, according to Harlan, is the latest drama surrounding the New York Knicks.

“To be quite honest, it’s the same old story,” Harlan said. “And nationally, people just don’t care about it.”

MourningView posted:

They're down from a couple years ago but I think it's mostly just LeBron moving to a west coast team.

Rick posted:

That lead to a bad year last year, but there has been a nice uptick which had been lead by them finally having a Clipper team that is drawing interest and a Lakers team that is winning. But they definitely need a good team as a draw for the early game for sure.

But those early games are still generally beating their competition though so they don’t have to worry that much.

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/jon_bois/status/1195095492184739842