ABC's presentation still sucks

[Pugglekicker_21]

i mean on the first page

[nobodi_home]

letting Assholes Broadcasting Corp (ABC) have total control of over-the-air NBA games was and remains a disaster. What kind of drugs are these morons taking?

Pro football has been on THREE MAJOR NETWORKS (FOX, NBC, CBS) for several years. Why the ing isn't the NBA on all three networks, er, NUTworks?

Oh, sure, basketball is not as popular as football. Right, sure thing. If you believe like that, you need to spend some time at the following website:

http://alexa.com

Alexa, if you don't know, is a plugin that works, sorry to say, only with Micro 's virus-collecting Internet Explorer browser. But anyway, it tracks and reports where you go, allowing Alexa to do ent how many visits a website receives. So who gets the most visits--- NBA, Baseball, NFL, Hockey, NASCAR, Golf, etc. NBA, dudes, NBA. Are the morons at NBC TV listening? no, they're stoned on durgs I suppose. Got their heads up some goddamn race car drivers exhaust pipe. What a bunch of fools.

You'll be amazed at what you see. Here we have NBC, spinning their wheels trying to cram this ass moronic race car nonsense down everyone's throat, when the NASCAR website has ONE ONE HUNDREDTH OF ONE PERCENT as many hits as www.nba.com, and that doesn't even take into account a host of other popular hangouts for NBA junkies. Put 'em all together and there is no argument that NBA attracts more visitors than any other sport.

And oh my goodness, I forgot GOLF. How about all those Tiger Woods golf matches. Go see how many visits the PGA website gets. Yet here we see NBC TV spinning their wheels, and CBS as well, with all this ing idiotic golf , weekend after weekend, when there are outstanding NBA games going on, especially DURING THE PLAYOFFS, which none of them botther to carry, and we have head dogface David Stern saying "Oh no, we can't allow any other NBA contracts to anyone other than one single nutwork, and for now, that is ABC".

It's a ed up mess.

[ShoogarBear]

Problem is, TV revenues aren't based on web site hits but on Nielsen ratings. Until the NBA can prove that it attracts as many people watching commercials as the other sports, the exposure will be comprably limited.

Anyway, it's gigaorders of magnitude better than in 70s, when there was NO live broadcasts on any channel and the NBA Finals were shown on TAPE DELAY on CBS, after the late news.

[mikejones99]

Who gives a about finals ratings, does that mean american idol is a good show too? no. Just means dumb es don't watch Spurs games, so what.

[nobodi_home]

It seems to me that random data collection via Alexa would represent a much greater degree of accuracy than random data collection via Nielsen.

Nielsen data is what is used by broadcasters, magazines, newspapers, all across the spectrum, to SET ADVERTISING RATES. Is there anything like this involved with the way Alexa complies data on Internet surfing? NO!!


Does Nielsen have a stake in how THEIR ratings come out? Absolutely. Which should cast a dark cloud on their credibility.

Thus, to say that Nielsen considers NBA games not a good gamble for advertisers, whereas moronic, idiotic, totally useless NASCAR races would be so much better for advertisers, is stupendously ridiculous to the extreme. Ditto for golf. If Nielsen says golf generates so many viewers, let them put their data sources on the table. People have been trying for years to get Neilsen to do just that, and they don't. Naturally they won't, because there isn't anybody watching this stupid-ass golf, and the Alexa method of Internet inspection of web surfers proves it.

When hundreds of thousands of cable and satellite customers have their service pulled because they can't pay the higher mortgage rates on their adjustable rate loans, and find themselves kicked out of their houses what will Stupid Stern be thinking then? Will he and NBA team owners be happy with the situation then? Doesn't matter, when the market crash comes, there won't be but a handful of teams that survive, if any at all.

[Extra Stout]

It is a different group of people surfing the internet than watching golf or NASCAR on TV. Golf's audience is older and less web-savvy. NASCAR has a small, but very devoted audience that faithfully tunes in every week and delivers ratings. They also tend to be from culturally backward parts of the country which don't use the Internet as much. The Internet is the domain of the young, casual fan.