Game 3 TV ratings

[Asif Ali Zardari]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

[Obstructed_View]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

:lol hanging out on a Spurs message board.

[Darius McCrary]

K.

[Budkin]

Why wouldn't people tune in for the Heat though?

[Splits]

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[Mojazz]

Classic...

[Asif Ali Zardari]

Why wouldn't people tune in for the Heat though?

Because they are playing against the Spurs:lol

Watching Tony Parker and Ginobili flop all game and Duncan complaining all game isn't entertaining basketball.

[RD2191]

:cry:cry:cry......:lmao

[cjw]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

Lakersfan nation has a lot more to worry about than Duncan matching Kirby's 5 rings. Such as getting to 40 wins next season once Dwight bolts.

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

This may be the best of both worlds.

The Spurs beating the Heat, AND the game getting low ratings. That is going to make certain people unhappy.

[nkdlunch]

Why wouldn't people tune in for the Heat though?

Bingo. As I said there is no such thing as a Miami Heat fan. Most Lebron bandwagoners have already jumped ship.

Still game 4 will have very good ratings as its a possibl funeral for Miami big 3

[xellos88330]

I don't think they jumped ship. I think they assumed the Heat have won the series after game 2.

[SA210]

Makes sense since LeBron is having his best choke job since 2007

[Shaolin-Style]

The ratings are still strong though, so not sure the point of this thread:

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/06/12/nba-finals-game-3-on-abc-delivers-strong-10-0-overnight-rating/187034/


and this link makes better comparisons of ratings from recent years:

http://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2013/06/nba-finals-ratings-series-earns-lowest-game-3-overnight-since-2007/

[timvp]

Awesome, tbh.

[70th Week]

Don't know where he got his info...this article says game 3 was the biggest view all season, biggest ratings of the night, and only .4 behind last years game 3...(and game 2 was the best ratings in a while, so people are watching the Spurs, matter of fact, 10 million watched game 3)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=nba%2Bfinals%2Bratings&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fespnmediazone.com%2Fus%2Fpress-releases%2F2013%2F06%2Fnba-finals-game-3-on-abc-delivers-strong-10-0-overnight-rating%2F&ei=kTy5UZz7A4S89QTVwYG4DA&usg=AFQjCNFznFNebgZR2dSYStXSqXQuv6MRLg

[ShoogarBear]

What were the ratings for the Lakers game last night?

[milkyway21]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

How about LeBron & Heat fans ?



what I am actually worried about is if the Lakers will win again another title :lmao

[cutewizard]

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lol

[cutewizard]

poor Lakers, they are done


sniff, sniff

lol

[Floyd Pacquiao]

Can't spell boring with out ring :toast

[cutewizard]

:lobt2:

[Splits]

poor Lakers, they are done


sniff, sniff

lol

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6523617536/h9A54B62C/

[Solid D]

What were the ratings for the Lakers game last night?

Ooh, snap!

[Floyd Pacquiao]

For real though lol nurato

[Sean Cagney]

Because they are playing against the Spurs:lol

Watching Tony Parker and Ginobili flop all game and Duncan complaining all game isn't entertaining basketball.
Go fish dickhead.

[Libri]

What were the ratings for the Lakers game last night?

:rollin

[Geeboy]

Because they are all switched to History Channel watching other teams... especially the Lakers tbh

[Man In Black]

LAL Bandwagon doesn't know what the hell he's talking about.

Like everything they do, it's all flash, no substance.

[T Park]

Why should I care what the ratings are?

[davidbowie]

no one cares about basketball anymore

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Lol at anyone who worries about ratings and doesn't work for ABC.

[lefty]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.
Ratings were very high before we took a 20 pt lead :lol

Miami has a lot of bandwagon fans like you, so when the blowout started, the ratings dropped

OP fail :lol

[InRareForm]

we worry about ratings soo muchhhhh because of all the tv ad money just funneling in our bank acounts!!!

stfu

[jestersmash]

Lakers/Magic game 3 (2009) was almost as bad (10.1 rating vs a 10.0 rating for Spurs/Heat 2013 Game 3)

[Sean Cagney]

no one cares about basketball anymore

You and me do! But I agree the league is not the same as it was in the 90's and early 00's.

[Mark919]

It's about winning not ratings if you're a spurs fan.we could care less.laker fan always gotta play the popularity card..faker than a laker.

[PÒÓCH]

Don't know where he got his info...this article says game 3 was the biggest view all season, biggest ratings of the night, and only .4 behind last years game 3...(and game 2 was the best ratings in a while, so people are watching the Spurs, matter of fact, 10 million watched game 3)

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=nba%2Bfinals%2Bratings&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CEkQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fespnmediazone.com%2Fus%2Fpress-releases%2F2013%2F06%2Fnba-finals-game-3-on-abc-delivers-strong-10-0-overnight-rating%2F&ei=kTy5UZz7A4S89QTVwYG4DA&usg=AFQjCNFznFNebgZR2dSYStXSqXQuv6MRLg


It was on the radio today, on how well game 3 did ratings wise. I have no Idea where OP is getting his info. Irregardless of good or bad ratings doesn't change anything for me. I could care less.

[Arcadian]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

Why the fuck should we care? It's not our fault that most people are idiots with no taste in basketball.

If anything, we should be proud to have low TV ratings, because that means we don't attract idiots. Being liked by most people is not a good thing.

[capek]

What were the ratings for the Lakers game last night?

Shoogie, have you been living under a rock or something? The Lakers haven't played for months! That shitty team barely made the playoffs, and got utterly raped by our Spurs in the first round. I mean, how could you possibly forget how we utterly embarrassed that horribly shitty team? I don't get it, even people that don't follow the NBA know know that this year's Lakers were the most embarrassing failure in the history of professional sports. And you thought this fucking joke of a team was still playing in June? This fucking joke of a team? This pathetic, laughable, ridiculously bad team? This team that will most likely be a lottery team for the foreseeable future? This team that even Lakerfan knows was a fucking joke? Shoogie, Shoogie, Shoogie.

[hater]

Why the fuck should we care? It's not our fault that most people are idiots with no taste in basketball.

If anything, we should be proud to have low TV ratings, because that means we don't attract idiots. Being liked by most people is not a good thing.

yup given that most average idiot out there likes Jersey Shore, Justin Biever and president Obama. I'd say I agree 100%

I'd be worried if most average stupid american likes Spurs. that'd mean they are full of shit

[capek]

yup given that most average idiot out there likes Jersey Shore, Justin Biever and president Obama. I'd say I agree 100%

I'd be worried if most average stupid american likes Spurs. that'd mean they are full of shit

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[unforeseen]

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[temujin]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

:lmao

The US = the world.

:lmao
Parochial.

[alpha_HaZE]

lots of people I know watch the games later on tivo, i do too sometimes. Sure the spurs are not exactly fan favorites, but i think ratings would go down regardless. As someone else mentioned earlier, why fans don't tune in to watch the Heat?

[rascal]

All you idiots who say you don't care do care or else you would have never opened the thread and commented that you don't care.

[chapnis]

Not that I care that much, but surely the low(er) ratings in games 2 and 3 were to some extent caused by the blowouts in each game.

[100%duncan]

We couldn't ask for more.

[milkyway21]

maybe the ratings are down a bit but compared to current shows I still rules :

how about this:


NBA Finals rule TV ratings; NBC's 'The Voice' limps to a finish
http://www.cleveland.com/tv/index.ssf/2013/06/nba_finals_rule_tv_ratings_nbc.html


Associated Press entertainment staff By Associated Press entertainment staff
on June 12, 2013 at 7:48 AM, updated June 12, 2013 at 7:56 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Despite being set up to shine, "The Voice" is limping to its finish.

NBC's most popular show, approaching its season finale next week, had 11.3 million viewers for its Monday edition last week and 10.9 million on Tuesday. Both were enough to rank them within the Nielsen company's top six shows for the week.

Still, the two editions were below their averages for the season, even more among younger viewers. The show peaked at more than 14 million viewers in mid-April.

It's not as if NBC's rivals offered elite competition. CBS aired reruns both nights. Fox showed its fading summer franchise "So You Think You Can Dance" and Charlie Sheen's "Anger Management," which had cable-like numbers (1.7 million viewers on Monday). ABC offered its popular "The Bachelorette" on Monday and a weight loss show the next night.

So why isn't "The Voice" doing better? With warm weather, television viewership typically declines. The early part of "The Voice" season, with the blind auditions, is popular and is the gimmick that sets it apart from others in the genre.

NBC surely doesn't want to contemplate another possible explanation: that the series has peaked and viewers are tiring of it.

The network did win one important competition last week: An original episode of "Revolution" had 6.2 million viewers, while the debut of ABC's "Mistresses" in the same time slot had 4.4 million.

ABC won the week in prime time, averaging 6 million viewers behind the strength of the first two games of the NBA Finals. CBS was a close second, with 5.9 million viewers, NBC had 5.6 million, Fox had 3.27 million, Univision had 3.26 million, Telemundo had 1.7 million, ION Television had 1.4 million and the CW had 750,000.

TNT was the week's most popular cable network, averaging 2.9 million viewers in prime time. USA had 2.8 million, the Disney Channel had 2.3 million, History had 2.1 million and Fox News Channel had 1.9 million.

NBC's "Nightly News" topped the evening newscasts with an average of 7.5 million viewers. ABC's "World News" was second with 7 million and the "CBS Evening News" had 5.7 million viewers.

For the week of June 3-9, the top 10 shows, their networks and viewerships: NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Sunday), ABC, 14.57 million; NBA Finals: San Antonio vs. Miami (Thursday), ABC, 14.24 million;
NBA Playoffs: Indiana vs. Miami (Monday), TNT, 11.57 million; "The Voice" (Monday), NBC, 11.29 million; "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 11.22 million; "The Voice" (Tuesday), NBC, 10.87 million; "The Big Bang Theory," CBS, 9.4 million; "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.3 million; "NCIS," CBS, 8.94 million; NCIS: Los Angeles," CBS, 7.88 million.

[rogues]

It's the Spurs fault..they're boring, tbh..

[milkyway21]

It's the Spurs fault..they're boring, tbh.. some some fans are saying it's because they knew the Spurs will win anyway so they don't want to watch anymore :lmao

[Strategic]

Maybe if Bosh would go ahead and put on his drag things would be all different?

[rogues]

some some fans are saying it's because they knew the Spurs will win anyway so they don't want to watch anymore :lmao
no..

[milkyway21]

no..

no?

go back to watching your favorite Disney movie kiddo, you don't belong here. You are boring :lol

[UZER]

San Antonio 1.5 million people...LA 8 million people....of course ratings are lower.

But but but everyone loves Lebron :cry

Lebron is not organic. From day one, he's been too concerned about his image to be "real". Everything is too calculated. He's fake tough (acts all beast but flops everywhere), fake clutch (goes ham only after the game is already decided), fake caring (the "decision" was for the kids :cry).

Nobody believes he even knows who he is. you can't fake that stuff. People see right through it. Not saying the dude can't ball, just saying.

[GrandeDavid]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't care about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

Probably pretty poor ratings as the Spurs blew the Heat away. Hopefully the Spurs blow out the Heat again tonight to keep less idiots from watching.

[Cowboys_Wear_Spurs]

What the OP fail to post is that it was only .4 from last year and last night was World Cup qualifying as well. Alot of my friends from latin american countries, who are basketball fans, were watching US, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico play along with all the South American countries playing Tuesday night.

I was flipping between the US and Spurs game as well. Believe it or not, but soccer, especially the World Cup ,which the final has average 1 billion veiwers the past 4 WCs, is more popular than Basketball.

[ShoogarBear]

.4

Watch your language.

[smeagol]

Your unspurs-fandom shows in every single one of your posts . . .

[Darkwaters]

I've still never seen a compelling argument why your typical NBA fan should ever care about TV ratings.

So, in response to the OP - your point?

[exstatic]

Why wouldn't people tune in for the Heat though?

Because they were sucking.

[Gervin44Silas13]

Blame the NBA...Tony Bruno once said....the reason for low ratings is because the NBA marketed Stars from big and small franchises
I think due to the advent of a bunch of cable channels...ratings are low because there is more variety....in the 1980 and 1990....cable was still analog...people decide not to watch now because there is so much crap on TV now....ad social media to the mix too. It dosent help that the NBA is in bed with ESPN.....there is always gonna be a biased opinion (gospel to big market teams hell to small markets)....and bad commentators who shout....just make it unwatchable.... The TNT crew do a much better job.

[Homeland Security]

If the Grizzlies had made the Finals I know I might not have found that very compelling -- small market team, no marketable stars, etc. I don't see why that should have diminished the experience for Memphis fans. Ratings are not the important thing here. The Pacers would have had a similar issue. OKC does not because Durant and Westbrook are highly marketable.

The other dynamic with San Antonio is that it is one of those markets that will have some national disdain because of its reputation/demographics, and so some people will scrunch up their nose at watching a franchise from that city. People who have hang-ups with cities like Memphis or New Orleans because of the black people likely would never watch the NBA Finals under any circumstances anyway regardless of the matchup, so there is no ratings differentiator there. But cities like San Antonio (Hispanics) or Salt Lake City (Mormons) would have that differentiator.

The way I hear that expressed is by people who say something along the lines that they won't watch the Spurs because they don't think a city like that "deserves" to have a good team or to have Tim Duncan.

I think deep down many Spurs fans, especially Hispanics, know that has something to do with the national rejection of the team, which is why it is an irritant.

[pgardn]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

Boring?

And Kobe chucking all night long is fun? Go back to your Playstation, the real world of good basketball has totally escaped your primitive nerve net of a brain. And take the West Coast with you, dude...

[703 Spurz]

Worst rated game 3 since 2007:lmao

The Spurs are ratings killers. You guys can make excuses but it's clear that the rest of the world doesn't give a fuck about the Spurs and their boring basketball. I'm cheering for you guys to beat the cHeat but I'm worried for the league if the Spurs win another championship.

Do you honestly think anyone here gives a fat chick's **** if anyone else likes the Spurs? Why not blame the Heat for the ratings too? Aren't James and Wade the best players of our generation? Why aren't they generating more ratings?

[703 Spurz]

It's the Spurs fault..they're boring, tbh..

They had more dunks than the Heat did in Game 3. What other boring bullshit are you lying about?

[KaiRMD1]

This is expected, the Spurs are boring. After all, all they ever do is win, compete every year, have one of the greatest power forwards of all time, make players that nobody wants even better, have one of the best coaches of all time & humiliate you when you're the favorites. What a boring bunch they are

[jmard5]

How about in Argentina, France, other parts of the world? It was the most watched game here in the Philippines since it was a holiday. :lol

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

Let's hope the Spurs jump out to an early 20-point lead and Game 4's ratings are even lower than Game 3's. :rollin

[Spurs and Mavs fan]

The other dynamic with San Antonio is that it is one of those markets that will have some national disdain because of its reputation/demographics, and so some people will scrunch up their nose at watching a franchise from that city.

But cities like San Antonio (Hispanics) or Salt Lake City (Mormons) would have that differentiator.


I think deep down many Spurs fans, especially Hispanics, know that has something to do with the national rejection of the team, which is why it is an irritant.


And Los Angeles, home of the high-TV-rating Lakers, isn't known for being a Hispanic city? :rollin

[coyotes_geek]

I don't know about the rest of you, but knowing that a bunch of billionaires might not make as much advertisement revenue as they could have were the finals pulling better ratings really just sucks the joy out of watching these games for me.

[tesseractive]

We all know what's really going on. Spurs defense is so good, not even Nielsen can score on us.

[marinoman]

TS is full of shit, he didnt even list a source, multiple sources say it was highly rated, especially in the key 18-49 demographic

"ABC earned its top-rated Tuesday in nearly 1 year among Adults 18-49 – since 06/19/12."

http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/06/12/nba-finals-game-3-national-ratings/187149/

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/ratings/2013/06/12/nba-finals-game-3-on-abc-delivers-strong-100-overnight-rating-396300/20130612abc01/

many other sites too

[m33p0]

We all know what's really going on. Spurs defense is so good, not even Nielsen can score on us.
BADAM-BING!
Bravo! :tu

[Aztecfan03]

Because they are playing against the Heat:lol

Watching Lebron James and Wade flop all game and James complaining all game isn't entertaining basketball.

FIFY