Spurs Fox TV ratings Drop 43 % from last Year

[Biernutz]

FOXSW tv ratings dropped 43% from last year. I don't think it's because Tim retired.
Some of it can be cable cutters but I think the main cause is DIRECT TV placing
FOXSOUTHWEST in it's sports tier that you have to pay extra for. On all the cable
systems in and around San Antonio FOXSW is not in a sports tier you have to pay
extra for. The Spurs should pressure Direct TV to put it in a package like basic or HD tier.

Another thing is I no longer listen or read interviews from POP. He has this elitist attitude
that if you didn't vote for Hillary you are a stupid rube hick...I didn't vote for Hillary because
I couldn't get over letting 4 men die in Libya die with no help. Did POP have a problem with that?
Also I wont vote for Sanders because he is a socialist.

[AaronY]

More of the Tim Duncan effect to me or at least that's the reason I watch less

[TheGreatYacht]

OP is a faggot possum eater

[Mr. Body]

FOXSW tv ratings dropped 43% from last year. I don't think it's because Tim retired.
Some of it can be cable cutters but I think the main cause is DIRECT TV placing
FOXSOUTHWEST in it's sports tier that you have to pay extra for. On all the cable
systems in and around San Antonio FOXSW is not in a sports tier you have to pay
extra for. The Spurs should pressure Direct TV to put it in a package like basic or HD tier.

Another thing is I no longer listen or read interviews from POP. He has this elitist attitude
that if you didn't vote for Hillary you are a stupid rube hick...I didn't vote for Hillary because
I couldn't get over letting 4 men die in Libya die with no help. Did POP have a problem with that?
Also I wont vote for Sanders because he is a socialist.

Fuck your dumbass politics you Mongoloid fucking moron.

[skulls138]

Sly way to get your political views across. WHO CARES!!!

[TXstbobcat]

What wasn't mentioned and should be noted is that local TV ratings for the league were also down and that the Spurs are top 5 in the league in local TV ratings.

[sasaint]

What wasn't mentioned and should be noted is that local TV ratings for the league were also down and that the Spurs are top 5 in the league in local TV ratings.

Thanks for the rest of the story. But do you mean that local tv ratings in San Antonio are down for other league games that do not have the Spurs?

[SAGirl]

Although not the intent of OP, the subject of this thread and lack of viewership from TV deals has made me wonder how it will affect the NBA revenue next season, the cap, etc.

[ElNono]

OP not listening to Pop's interviews anymore probably the biggest factor, tbh

[kaji157]

Another sign that this year may be better than we think.

[TDomination]

For me, no Tim has made it feel odd this year, but I've honestly watched as many games as in the past. Although I will admit that I've missed a lot of games fully knowing that I'll just watch the 9 minute highlights on YouTube and feeling pretty satisfied about it.
AndAs much as we want to put each other down for voting or not voting for a certain candidate, it would be ignorant to say that pops political rants has had no bearing on local tv viewership.

I didn't vote and I HATED both candidates but I personally get annoyed by his political rants. But I'm too big a Spurs fan to care and again I don't care about trump so I don't care that he's putting him down but those Spurs fans who are trump fans might feel differently. Instead I wish he would rant when the refs are screwing us in the playoffs or rant when he's getting out coached.

[Horse]

FOXSW tv ratings dropped 43% from last year. I don't think it's because Tim retired.
Some of it can be cable cutters but I think the main cause is DIRECT TV placing
FOXSOUTHWEST in it's sports tier that you have to pay extra for. On all the cable
systems in and around San Antonio FOXSW is not in a sports tier you have to pay
extra for. The Spurs should pressure Direct TV to put it in a package like basic or HD tier.

Another thing is I no longer listen or read interviews from POP. He has this elitist attitude
that if you didn't vote for Hillary you are a stupid rube hick...I didn't vote for Hillary because
I couldn't get over letting 4 men die in Libya die with no help. Did POP have a problem with that?
Also I wont vote for Sanders because he is a socialist.
no one gives a fuck what you think.

[DAINTX]

Probably Pop's mouth.

[TXstbobcat]

Thanks for the rest of the story. But do you mean that local tv ratings in San Antonio are down for other league games that do not have the Spurs?

Ratings for other markets are down for their local nba games. Both the NBA and the NFL have experienced lower ratings.

[CGD]

Yes, but does that account for viewership increasing over streaming?

I believe last year was the first full year of the Foxsports App, and THIS year was the first year you could cast to a platform like Cromecast. That's the only way I catch the games, unless ESPN is streaming.

[spurs10]

OP not listening to Pop's interviews anymore probably the biggest factor, tbh :lol Gotta be

[Skoobz]

TD is not playing.......

[Darius Bieber]

It's mostly due to the cord-cutting wave honestly.

[gospursgojas]

Lol...give Pop haters any "negative" Spurs-related news and they will pounce on it and blame his political views. They are just sitting waiting.

[Mikeanaro]

It is a mix of things, TD is gone, and Pop careless coaching is a bummer, add to that his political views and you can lose audience.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

This is the most boring Spurs team since 2004. They're very iso heavy and the beautiful game isn't quite there with this personnel.

[Play Boban]

It's because Poop the Activist is now a political activist and not a coach. If Poop doesn't give a crap about coaching the team, why should fans care to watch? Also, Poop doesn't respect our President. RC will have to fire Poop soon.

[Kool Bob Love]

Welcome to the Kawhi era. Boring Af and won't ever win without Duncan dragging him kicking & screaming.

[Floyd Pacquiao]

You can thank Pop and his fascist ideologies. Alot people in San Antonio are fed up with his BS.

[dabom]

You can thank Pop and his fascist ideologies. Alot people in San Antonio are fed up with his BS.

Not many. No one gives a shit he is democrat. SA is blue. :lol

[baseline bum]

FOXSW tv ratings dropped 43% from last year. I don't think it's because Tim retired.
Some of it can be cable cutters but I think the main cause is DIRECT TV placing
FOXSOUTHWEST in it's sports tier that you have to pay extra for. On all the cable
systems in and around San Antonio FOXSW is not in a sports tier you have to pay
extra for. The Spurs should pressure Direct TV to put it in a package like basic or HD tier.

Another thing is I no longer listen or read interviews from POP. He has this elitist attitude
that if you didn't vote for Hillary you are a stupid rube hick...I didn't vote for Hillary because
I couldn't get over letting 4 men die in Libya die with no help. Did POP have a problem with that?
Also I wont vote for Sanders because he is a socialist.

Such butthurt from the right after Pop said you can't trust anything Trump says. So which of these Trump claims is true?

(1) Barack Obama wasn't born in the US and thus could not legally be president
(2) Ted Cruz's father was part of the plot to kill JFK
(3) Vaccines cause autism
(4) Trump had the biggest in person audience ever at a presidential inauguration
(5) Trump won the most electoral votes since Reagan
(6) Trump really won the popular vote because allegedly 5 million illegals in California cast votes for Clinton
(7) The free press is the enemy of the American people

About the only thing Dear Leader ever said that's trustworthy is that he could just go shoot someone and still not lose his base.

[SanAntonioSpurs23]

This is the most boring Spurs team since 2004. They're very iso heavy and the beautiful game isn't quite there with this personnel.

This.

[baseline bum]

This team is on pace for 64 wins and their fans think they're boring. smh

[TimDunkem]

This team is on pace for 64 wins and their fans think they're boring. smhThe fanbase is a mix of spoiled brats and indifferent simpletons, tbh.

[baseline bum]

The fanbase is a mix of spoiled brats and indifferent simpletons, tbh.

I don't get how people can't love being Spurs fans. This team has been in the mix for a title for 26 of the last 27 years. It doesn't get any better than being a Spurs fan. Being on pace to win 60+ games after Tim Duncan retires just blows my mind.

[ducks]

I have been a spur fan before David Robinson
Wonder if it has to do with Duncan or pop and being much more vocal political this year

[ducks]

I think sports should stay out of politics
I watch it to turn away from everything and watch the spurs system of basketball

[GSH]

Such butthurt from the right after Pop said you can't trust anything Trump says. So which of these Trump claims is true?

(1) Barack Obama wasn't born in the US and thus could not legally be president
(2) Ted Cruz's father was part of the plot to kill JFK
(3) Vaccines cause autism
(4) Trump had the biggest in person audience ever at a presidential inauguration
(5) Trump won the most electoral votes since Reagan
(6) Trump really won the popular vote because allegedly 5 million illegals in California cast votes for Clinton
(7) The free press is the enemy of the American people

About the only thing Dear Leader ever said that's trustworthy is that he could just go shoot someone and still not lose his base.


I like you and your basketball takes. And I hate the political shit on a sports forum, including the OP dragging it in at the end of his thread-starter. But seriously? They all lie and say stupid shit. They're fucking politicians. Bash them all? Fine. But don't pretend like one side is worse than the other. I expect better from you.


1. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
2. The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever has.
3. ISIS is "the JV team"
4. "Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
5. For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.
6. Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
7. The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.'
8. Fully inflating tires is "a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent."
9. The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."
10. "She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
11. If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
(Hillary and Bill)
1. "Let me say that I don't think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him."*
2. The attack in Benghazi was due to an internet video.
3. "The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing."
4. "We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."
5. The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.
1. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". (While looking straight at the camera.) :lol

[baseline bum]

I like you and your basketball takes. And I hate the political shit on a sports forum, including the OP dragging it in at the end of his thread-starter. But seriously? They all lie and say stupid shit. They're fucking politicians. Bash them all? Fine. But don't pretend like one side is worse than the other. I expect better from you.


1. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
2. The steel industry is producing as much steel in the United States as it ever has.
3. ISIS is "the JV team"
4. "Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
5. For the first time since 1990, American manufacturers are creating new jobs.
6. Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
7. The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.'
8. Fully inflating tires is "a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent."
9. The U.S. government spends less on energy innovation "than the pet food industry invests in its own products."
10. "She said, you know, 'I voted for it, but I hoped it wouldn't pass.' That was a quote on live TV."
11. If African-Americans vote their percentage of the population in 2008, "Mississippi is suddenly a Democratic state."
(Hillary and Bill)
1. "Let me say that I don't think (Bernie Sanders has) had a single negative ad ever run against him."*
2. The attack in Benghazi was due to an internet video.
3. "The Clean Power Plan is something that Sen. Sanders has said he would delay implementing."
4. "We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil."
5. The number of jobs created and people lifted out of poverty during Bill Clinton’s presidency was "a hundred times" what it was under President Ronald Reagan.
1. "I did not have sexual relations with that woman". (While looking straight at the camera.) :lol

You can't normalize Trump. He literally says the free press is the enemy of the people. He says our elections are fixed. How is it people can defend this guy?

[dabom]

Both sides are not the same and to say so is fucking moronic. :lmao

Fucking faggot. Saying shit like that is what got Trump in the white house. :lmao

[BG_Spurs_Fan]

This is the most boring Spurs team since 2004. They're very iso heavy and the beautiful game isn't quite there with this personnel.

Best OFFRTG ever, AST% and AST ratio on par with anything they've had and better than during the 2014 playoff run.

Not a single player in top 30 in ISO frequency. Only one player in top 100 in points scored from ISO (Kawhi ~20th).

[daslicer]

Very laughable thread. Like someone brought up earlier which is ratings are down throughout the whole entire league. David Robinson was a hardcore republican when he was with the Spurs but that didn't stop me from rooting for the Spurs. I was still a spurs fan in '03 when he called out anybody who was anti-Iraq War un-american. For those of you who don't know I was anti-war back then. You guys are bunch of cry babies who are simply angry because Pop doesn't agree with your political views. Time for you idiots to make a decision about your fandom. If Pop's political views offend you so much stop being a fan of the spurs and just a get new hobby.

[widowmaker]

What are you going to do about those four men dying??

Absolutly nothing... No balls.

[HarlemHeat37]

I don't watch as many live games as I used to, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the actual team, tbh..I still watch whenever I can..

Measuring TV ratings or record sales with the traditional methods is antiquated, obviously..there are so many different ways to stream/download sports/music/movies nowadays, it's very difficult to accurately gauge the real number of viewers..cord-cutting is only going to get more sophisticated, too..

I can't even fathom how somebody could stop watching the NFL because players were kneeling during the anthem(which has nothing to do with the fucking game) or quit the NBA because Pop doesn't like Trump:lol..

[TheGreatYacht]

What are you going to do about those four men dying??

Absolutly nothing... No balls.
Trump's stupidity already got someone killed, and the father refused to meet with the orange cuck for a photo-op

Where's your outrage? Dance for me

[TheGreatYacht]

The fanbase is a mix of spoiled brats and indifferent simpletons, tbh.
Unfortunately the fan base has some inbreds whose favorite player is Matt Bonner and want Cole Aldrich, Miles Plumlee, and Jimmer Fredette in the offseason.

Pop hurt their feelings and refuse to watch the games with their bruncles and sephews coming over

[widowmaker]

No outrage. Its the cycle of life people die.

If you dont want to die stay behind that computer screen with your bag of cheetos.

[TheGreatYacht]

Then quit bitching about 4 people dying. Faggot. Dance for me

[baseline bum]

I don't watch as many live games as I used to, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the actual team, tbh..I still watch whenever I can..

Measuring TV ratings or record sales with the traditional methods is antiquated, obviously..there are so many different ways to stream/download sports/music/movies nowadays, it's very difficult to accurately gauge the real number of viewers..cord-cutting is only going to get more sophisticated, too..

I can't even fathom how somebody could stop watching the NFL because players were kneeling during the anthem(which has nothing to do with the fucking game) or quit the NBA because Pop doesn't like Trump:lol..

The right thinks they have the right to never be offended.

[philldafunk]

Ever since time warner required the cable boxes, I haven't been able to watch Spurs games on FSN. I was pirating cable thru my internet signal for years...

[TheGreatYacht]

Welcome to the Kawhi era. Boring Af and won't ever win without Duncan dragging him kicking & screaming.
http://68.media.tumblr.com/2a80768197d85a0f90eaca6fce840e56/tumblr_inline_nkdvxyEm8i1shrb8p.gif

[bic50]

Welcome to the Kawhi era. Boring Af and won't ever win without Duncan dragging him kicking & screaming.
He can't be that boring if your bitch ass can't stop talking about him.

[ducks]

Trump's stupidity already got someone killed, and the father refused to meet with the orange cuck for a photo-op

Where's your outrage? Dance for metrump was against Iraq war
The former president is responsible for a lot of deaths with the ransom money he gave them illegal
The former president planned the raid and trump carried it out and got intelligent info out of it

[UNT Eagles 2016]

FOXSW tv ratings dropped 43% from last year. I don't think it's because Tim retired.
Some of it can be cable cutters but I think the main cause is DIRECT TV placing
FOXSOUTHWEST in it's sports tier that you have to pay extra for. On all the cable
systems in and around San Antonio FOXSW is not in a sports tier you have to pay
extra for. The Spurs should pressure Direct TV to put it in a package like basic or HD tier.

Another thing is I no longer listen or read interviews from POP. He has this elitist attitude
that if you didn't vote for Hillary you are a stupid rube hick...I didn't vote for Hillary because
I couldn't get over letting 4 men die in Libya die with no help. Did POP have a problem with that?
Also I wont vote for Sanders because he is a socialist.

LIKE!

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Unfortunately the fan base has some inbreds whose favorite player is Matt Bonner and want Cole Aldrich, Miles Plumlee, and Jimmer Fredette in the offseason.

Pop hurt their feelings and refuse to watch the games with their bruncles and sephews coming over
Bonner is a liberal. He married a Hispanic woman and applied for Canadian citizenship. Gimme a break.

[Amuseddaysleeper]

This team is on pace for 64 wins and their fans think they're boring. smh

This team is definitely a little boring, Spurs have always won a lot of games but that doesn't mean it's exciting. It's just a hard to rally around the team this season because they're incredibly frustrating but considering their record and that there is no Tim Duncan anymore you'll have to take it.

[MR-Clutch]

It's mostly due to the cord-cutting wave honestly.

I'm included in this.

[CGD]

In addition to cord cutting, as part of the new tv deal the league also staggered there marquee games to be toward the end of the season.

In other words, more Orlando-Sacramento type games in the early going, and more Spurs-Warriors type games toward the end. The former makes for shitty viewing, which is the bulk of what the fox survey is probably working with.

[south side spur]

http://m.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/article/Report-FSSW-explains-Spurs-rating-drop-due-to-11033705.php

The San Antonio Business Journal reports that a faulty encoder (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2017/03/27/technical-glitch-not-trump-talk-to-blame-for-spurs.html) was the culprit that explained why the team's ratings dropped despite the team's strong overall performance.

The Spurs' ratings originally were reported at a 5.11 record last month. FSSW officials told the SABJ that ratings actually should have been slightly above 7.00, which would have placed the team second in the league, behind only Golden State's 8.54. San Antonio's ratings at a similar point in 2015-2016 were at 8.99 for FSSW games, which would have meant the franchise's ratings still would have skidded about 20 percent from last season.

[Spur|n|Austin]

http://m.mysanantonio.com/sports/spurs/article/Report-FSSW-explains-Spurs-rating-drop-due-to-11033705.php

The San Antonio Business Journal reports that a faulty encoder (http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2017/03/27/technical-glitch-not-trump-talk-to-blame-for-spurs.html) was the culprit that explained why the team's ratings dropped despite the team's strong overall performance.

The Spurs' ratings originally were reported at a 5.11 record last month. FSSW officials told the SABJ that ratings actually should have been slightly above 7.00, which would have placed the team second in the league, behind only Golden State's 8.54. San Antonio's ratings at a similar point in 2015-2016 were at 8.99 for FSSW games, which would have meant the franchise's ratings still would have skidded about 20 percent from last season.


:tu

:lol at all the people giving their input as to why the ratings were down.