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While US viewership of the NBA Finals has never been lower, worldwide it has never been higher.
That's the picture David Stern sees. In Paris they don't care whether San Antonio is a small market.
Which is what was to be expected with the Sopranos. Only chance the ratings have is for the Cavs to win game 3 and 4 and maybe game 5 would get a good rating.
While US viewership of the NBA Finals has never been lower, worldwide it has never been higher.
That's the picture David Stern sees. In Paris they don't care whether San Antonio is a small market.
True but Media coverage will continue to drop in the US if the ratings keep dropping like this. Look at Hockey ESPN and the media don't care about it or discuss hardly at all anymore because the ratings are so low.
And yet NBA attendance is at an all-time high. ESPN loves the NBA, even if playoff and Finals ratings lag, because it still delivers solid ratings for regular-season games. And with the revolution in digital media, soon it will be able to offer hoopheads NBA content to computers, cell phones, Ipods, etc., delivering advertising at the same time, and opening up all sorts of new revenue streams.
And, the online content is not bound by international borders.
The NHL didn't lose media coverage because the TV ratings are low; the ratings are low and the coverage is sparse because the NHL committed suicide in the United States with the lockout that wiped out an entire season.
People in this country would rather watch Paris Hilton stand around and look vapid. Most people are ing idiots... and we're getting stupider and stupider.
HAHAH! the spurs ing suck a fat ..... boring ass team.... Tim Duncan and his crew of losers hold the key to treating insomnia.
I feel sorry for kings fans so I won't say anything.....
Hope it's a 4.0 on Tuesday.
Another brilliant take from the forum's resident crackhead.
The only thing better than the Spurs winning les is ABC/ESPN hemorrhaging money while they do it.
At least we have les dumbass.
Keep feeling sorry... at least my team could sellout a finals game..... while your ty ass franchise is trying to sell tickets on game day of game 2 of the finals.....
I know, think of all the ratings and attendance trophies we're missing out on.
Your team? The 1909 Rochester Royals?
Funny how the " ty ass franchise" is on the verge of winning le #4. Man, the jealousy and bitterness of your posts just reeks.
Well, they must not be hemorrhaging too much, given the substantial increase in rights fees they are willing to pay to extend the current deal until 2016.
It must suck as a fan when the highlight of your season is trolling another forum and harping on television ratings of the team currently up 2-0 in the Finals.
Yeah I'm pretty disappointed in our ratings performance thus far in the series. It's tearing me up inside to see such greatness on the court and to imagine all of the eyeballs in America NOT witnessing it.
BTW...I believe we're all NOT WITNESSING (even we are watching)...
I'm just pissed that we're not going to have a place on nba.com/history's NBA Ratings Juggernauts page. And that section in the Basketball HOF devoted to the highest-rated teams? No Spurs plaques or photos in that room... Damn shame.
The Rochester Royals indeed sold out all four games at the 4,200-seat Edgerton Park Sports Arena in 1951. Kudos!
It would certainly make sense that they are indeed making money on the Finals despite the ratings, because otherwise they'd actually have ESPN talking the Spurs up during the season in anticipation that they are going to go deep into the postseason.
I can still hope that they are just looking long term to try to recoup their losses, though.
I hear those rings that Nielsen sends the Lakers every year are pretty nice. Sad that Duncan will never get to wear one of those.
I'm pretty sure that the Finals were sold out after like 10 minutes or something. But it doesn't matter. At least we're in the Finals.
Yeah, because they'd all have to buy tickets in order to get there.
championships mean everything.
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-Mars
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