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DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

Serena's final match did massive numbers

Awful Announcing posted:

Serena Williams� emotional final match of her career drew impressive viewership for ESPN.

Per the network, 4.8 million viewers watched Williams� three set loss to Ajla Tomljanovich in the third round of the US Open. Sports Media Watch notes that makes it the most-watched tennis match, regardless of network, since Williams� quarterfinal match with her sister Venus in a 2015 US Open quarterfinal, which drew six million viewers.

The full window averaged 4.6 million viewers, making it ESPN�s most-watched tennis window ever. Viewership for the window topped everything that aired on Friday, and also beat out all of Thursday�s college football games (Fox�s broadcast of Penn State-Purdue topped the heap with 3.512 million viewers). ESPN shifted a Western Michigan-Michigan State game from ESPN to ESPN2 on Friday, and that game drew 1.345 million viewers, good for Friday�s most-watched college football game but drawing less than half the viewership of the Williams-Tomljanovich match.

ESPN also noted in their release that the Williams sisters� doubles match on Thursday night averaged 2.2 million viewers on ESPN2, with the full window drawing 1.512 million viewers. Serena�s second round win on Wednesday averaged 3.6 million viewers, with the full window drawing 2.273 million viewers.

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# ? Jun 1, 2024 06:18

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1567345409558822912

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1567496037614424064

# ? Sep 7, 2022 15:17

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1569847463565049857?s=20&t=Z8EijQD8JngtwFHoUVbR6w

Apparently he's just done with broadcasting

# ? Sep 14, 2022 22:39

mactheknife: Jul 20, 2004; THE JOLLY CANDY-LIKE BUTTON

mcafee's pretty good on gameday. i'm happy with this.

# ? Sep 14, 2022 22:52

Lockback: Sep 3, 2006; All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

I thought Wade was charismatic but not a very good analyst.

# ? Sep 14, 2022 23:09

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

ESPN has a very heavy E:60 in the works

ESPN posted:

A powerful and emotional new episode of ESPN E60 will look back 50 years to one of the darkest moments in sports history � the Munich Massacre, when Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli sportsmen at the 1972 Summer Olympics. E60 will tell the story of one Israeli athlete, now 86, who survived, just as he had survived World War II and the Holocaust when he was a child.

The Survivor will debut on Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN, available for on-demand streaming on ESPN+ after the initial airing.

In E60�s The Survivor, Shaul Ladany reflects on the arc of his life � from World War II and the Holocaust, to Munich, and beyond. Jeremy Schaap traveled to Israel and Germany to profile a man of unmatched endurance, physically and spiritually, who has repeatedly survived the unthinkable.

An unspeakable act of violence that changed countless lives, the Munich Massacre was the first terrorist attack broadcast live on television around the world. Eleven Israelis and one German police officer were killed. In its wake, life would never feel quite so safe again, especially at sports events.

Long before Munich, Ladany, a race walker and one of Israel�s most accomplished athletes, already understood what it meant to be targeted for death.

In 1941, when the Germans attacked his native Yugoslavia, and a bomb fell directly on his house, he survived. Three years later, when he was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where the Germans killed 50,000 people, he survived. Twenty-eight years later, in Munich, wearing the star of David as a proud Israeli, Ladany would find himself in the crosshairs of history again.

Through archival video and news reports, along with new interviews and reporting, E60 tells the story of Munich, through Ladany�s eyes.

Others interviewed for The Survivor include Zelig Shtroch, a shooter on the Israeli Olympic team and roommate of Ladany, who has been haunted by survivor�s guilt for 50 years; Shlomo Levy, an Israeli photojournalist who was embedded with the team in Munich and was staying in the same building; and Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.

The Survivor was produced and directed by Frank Saraceno.

Other ESPN platforms also will contribute to the presentation: a written piece by Schaap will be published on ESPN.com; excerpts from The Survivor will be featured in segments on Outside the Lines in SportsCenter; and the story will be explored in an upcoming edition of the ESPN Daily Podcast.

After the premiere on ESPN, the program will be available on ESPN+ and will re-air multiple times across ESPN networks.

https://vimeo.com/748350688

trailer here

# ? Sep 15, 2022 04:11

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Holy poo poo.

# ? Sep 15, 2022 04:49

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

DJExile posted:

ESPN has a very heavy E:60 in the works

https://vimeo.com/748350688

trailer here

That is legitimately some "truth is stranger than fiction" kinda poo poo

# ? Sep 15, 2022 22:30

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1572369281832357891

# ? Sep 21, 2022 00:42

KICK BAMA KICK: Mar 2, 2009

Vertical Lime posted:

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1572369281832357891

Is the idea to cut the RSNs out for the purpose of streaming without blackouts?

# ? Sep 21, 2022 00:45

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KICK BAMA KICK posted:

Is the idea to cut the RSNs out for the purpose of streaming without blackouts?

What makes you think this will happen?

# ? Sep 21, 2022 01:55

maruhkati: Sep 29, 2021; NAZ REID

Edward Mass posted:

What makes you think this will happen?

There'd be little sense in buying these RSNs out if they didn't go blackout-free. They'd only be costing themselves subscribers.

# ? Sep 21, 2022 23:39

KICK BAMA KICK: Mar 2, 2009

Yeah I'm sure there's a lot of obstacles in the way (seems hard to launch without every last team under control) but, isn't that the logical endpoint of the leagues themselves bringing those rights back in-house?

# ? Sep 21, 2022 23:49

Edward Mass: Sep 14, 2011; 𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen𝅘𝅥𝅮

The only way they get to what I assume y'all want is for the respective leagues to do what Major League Soccer did and put EVERYTHING on one service, which requires all the regional and national contracts to expire simultaneously.

# ? Sep 21, 2022 23:53

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/Ourand_SBJ/status/1572936428224679936
https://twitter.com/AustinKarp/status/1572937212827762688

so that's more than people assumed

# ? Sep 22, 2022 17:00

Robnoxious: Feb 17, 2004

Chiefs/Bolts is one thing.
Being in LA, I watched that game OTA.
Spinning in the ratings of a #2 television market with OTA eyeballs in the streaming totals is very disingenuous and thus yield forcibly skewed statistics.

Browns/Steelers is another.
By and large, the game was a snoozefest unless you bet the over. HIYOOO!
Pittsburgh is a top ten market, Cleveland... not so much.

It'll be an interesting read to see how this week fared versus last week even with the Pittsburgh/Cleveland OTA eyeballs lumped in to pad the stats.
I don't think it'll top the Chiefs/Chargers numbers but I am prepared to be surprised and eat crow if need be.

If TNF was such a smoking hot commodity it shouldn't have had to roll through NFL Network, CBS and FOX to make even a blip of success.

The NFL treats TNF as a high priced call girl.
And there are still Johns willing to pay up.
Amazon is just the latest simp in the scheme.

# ? Sep 23, 2022 07:45

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

Robnoxious posted:

The NFL treats TNF as a high priced call girl.
And there are still Johns willing to pay up.
Amazon is just the latest simp in the scheme.

This is certainly an analogy to use when describing NFL broadcast strategy :staredog:

# ? Sep 23, 2022 10:13

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

Buddy, they won�t even let me gently caress the football

# ? Sep 23, 2022 12:17

Mahoning: Feb 3, 2007

Robnoxious posted:

Chiefs/Bolts is one thing.
Being in LA, I watched that game OTA.
Spinning in the ratings of a #2 television market with OTA eyeballs in the streaming totals is very disingenuous and thus yield forcibly skewed statistics.

How many ppl in LA actually give a poo poo about the Chargers though? I know it�s a huge market but still. Cleveland and Pittsburgh will have likely had much larger shares of much smaller markets.

# ? Sep 23, 2022 13:07

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

Robnoxious posted:

Chiefs/Bolts is one thing.
Being in LA, I watched that game OTA.
Spinning in the ratings of a #2 television market with OTA eyeballs in the streaming totals is very disingenuous and thus yield forcibly skewed statistics.

Browns/Steelers is another.
By and large, the game was a snoozefest unless you bet the over. HIYOOO!
Pittsburgh is a top ten market, Cleveland... not so much.

It'll be an interesting read to see how this week fared versus last week even with the Pittsburgh/Cleveland OTA eyeballs lumped in to pad the stats.
I don't think it'll top the Chiefs/Chargers numbers but I am prepared to be surprised and eat crow if need be.

If TNF was such a smoking hot commodity it shouldn't have had to roll through NFL Network, CBS and FOX to make even a blip of success.

The NFL treats TNF as a high priced call girl.
And there are still Johns willing to pay up.
Amazon is just the latest simp in the scheme.

Pittsburgh is nowhere near a top 10 market, they�re like 27th. I think even Cleveland�s above that but mostly because that market includes Akron

# ? Sep 23, 2022 14:23

Dexo: Aug 15, 2009; A city that was to live by night after the wilderness had passed. A city that was to forge out of steel and blood-red neon its own peculiar wilderness.

https://twitter.com/gifdsports/status/1573347983118438402

# ? Sep 23, 2022 17:40

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

espn has been cutting into college football with aaron judge coverage and, well,

https://twitter.com/jessica_smetana/status/1573735667879874560?s=46&t=dWACq6djp3S8BV2kTpvFfQ

# ? Sep 24, 2022 19:10

Redgrendel2001: Sep 1, 2006; you literally think a person saying their NBA team of choice being better than the fucking 76ers is a 'schtick'

a literal thing you think.

https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1574263832142172160?t=6Dx3Jpjl6pdD725x1nL_CA&s=19

# ? Sep 27, 2022 03:22

Sash!: Mar 16, 2001

DJExile posted:

Pittsburgh is nowhere near a top 10 market, they�re like 27th. I think even Cleveland�s above that but mostly because that market includes Akron

I believe he means in terms of the viewership, not the actual population. Like Los Angeles is the second largest market, but only a fraction of it is watching, versus a Pittsburgh where literally everyone is.

# ? Sep 28, 2022 06:14

Crazy Ted: Jul 29, 2003

Sash! posted:

I believe he means in terms of the viewership, not the actual population. Like Los Angeles is the second largest market, but only a fraction of it is watching, versus a Pittsburgh where literally everyone is.

Yeah. IIRC in the years after the Raiders/Rams moved out of Los Angeles in 1995 the NFL Ratings for the LA area actually went up because of the amount of apathy people had toward the Rams combined with the fact that Los Angeles was getting the best games in each time slot.

# ? Sep 28, 2022 21:52

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

Sash! posted:

I believe he means in terms of the viewership, not the actual population. Like Los Angeles is the second largest market, but only a fraction of it is watching, versus a Pittsburgh where literally everyone is.

Aaah yeah that would make more sense

# ? Sep 29, 2022 12:09

fartknocker: Oct 28, 2012; Damn it, this always happens. I think I'm gonna score, and then I never score. It's not fair.; Wedge Regret

Crazy Ted posted:

Yeah. IIRC in the years after the Raiders/Rams moved out of Los Angeles in 1995 the NFL Ratings for the LA area actually went up because of the amount of apathy people had toward the Rams combined with the fact that Los Angeles was getting the best games in each time slot.

Don�t forget the impact of the blackout rules back then. IIRC the LA Raiders had trouble selling out the Coliseum (Due to its size and facilities) and so they got blacked out a number of times as well even when the team was good.

# ? Sep 29, 2022 13:30

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

and that's why the rams played for a bit in anaheim, because the coliseum was too big

plus they scheduled rams and raiders home games at the same time knowing that at least one of them would be blacked out

# ? Sep 29, 2022 14:05

FlamingLiberal: Jan 18, 2009; Would you like to play a game?

This was the radio station in Miami that launched the Dan LeBatard Show

https://twitter.com/stugotz790/status/1575638562925875202?s=46&t=5GlSSCVwIjyuQkYCflAfhA

# ? Sep 30, 2022 01:15

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

https://twitter.com/THR/status/1576180191617073159

dish/sling seems to do this quite often

# ? Oct 1, 2022 14:07

DJExile: Jun 28, 2007

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1576252362016129028?s=46&t=2od9CHpzlWYrzDi-jWDEbg

Sean McDonaugh making GBS threads all over his own employer�s stunt with Judge is incredible

# ? Oct 1, 2022 18:57

Bird in a Blender: Nov 17, 2005; It's amazing what they can do with computers these days.

DJExile posted:

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1576252362016129028?s=46&t=2od9CHpzlWYrzDi-jWDEbg

Sean McDonaugh making GBS threads all over his own employer�s stunt with Judge is incredible

I�m sure every espn non-baseball announcer is sick of getting interrupted.

# ? Oct 1, 2022 21:12

Rick: Feb 23, 2004; When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

The Yankees/Dodgers thing is about as ESPN as it gets. 85% Yankees, 14% Dodgers Struggles, 1% "Oh yeah the Dodgers did beat the Yankees in 1981 anyway we're out of time."

# ? Oct 2, 2022 23:02

Vertical Lime: Dec 11, 2004

sean used to call red sox games, so i'm sure that played a factor in his disgust

anyways, the dish-disney dispute already ended

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1576792174855086080

# ? Oct 3, 2022 12:46

howe_sam: Mar 7, 2013; Creepy little garbage eaters

Vertical Lime posted:

sean used to call red sox games, so i'm sure that played a factor in his disgust

He still does! He's been a part time member of the radio broadcast crew for the past two years

# ? Oct 3, 2022 18:04

harperdc: Jul 24, 2007

Vertical Lime posted:

sean used to call red sox games, so i'm sure that played a factor in his disgust

anyways, the dish-disney dispute already ended

https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1576792174855086080

I chuckled when I heard a Sling ad on Bomani�s podcast today.

Anyhoo, Manningcast.

https://twitter.com/cjzero/status/1577109346802180096

# ? Oct 4, 2022 03:10