🏈 Hat's off to the FOX Sports college football show!

[TerryP]

 

[252BAMA]

Brandeaux?

 

[252BAMA]

Are they going to replace CBS when that contract runs out? I'm thinking that is what Brandeaux has his hat hung on.

 

[TerryP]

Brandeaux?

I thought about him yesterday when I came across that tweet.

Has it dawned on anyone that Erin Andrews jumped the ship that Brando boarded?

 

[planomateo]

Not to mention, Fox was missing from the top 10 most viewed college football games this year.

 

[TerryP]

Not to mention, Fox was missing from the top 10 most viewed college football games this year.

Is there any question as to why? Richard Deitsch has a thought on the matter...

 

[JoshB]

Lmao good lord, some one save Gus Johnson!!!!

 

[planomateo]

Not to mention, Fox was missing from the top 10 most viewed college football games this year.

They did make the top 14.

 

[TerryP]

@planemateo Those are fast ratings too. I wont' say never, but I will say they are VERY seldom accurate for live broadcasts.

 

[planomateo]

@planemateo Those are fast ratings too. I wont' say never, but I will say they are VERY seldom accurate for live broadcasts.

Speak english

 

[TerryP]

Speak english

Fast ratings are skewed numbers. As example, sometimes the numbers are greater than they actually appear to be. If a pre-game show runs into the next half hour (say 3:35PM on a Saturday) those last five minutes of the pre-game cover that 3:30-4:00 hour. ESPN's noon game on Saturday's often show more viewers because people are watching the last few minutes of GameDay for Corso's picks. When we play on CBS and the kick is at 3:48 those first 18 minutes don't reflect how many are watching the game.

National broadcasts really screw things up for fast ratings. An 8PM kickoff is 5 on the West coast and isn't included because those ratings are from 8-9, 9-10, and so on...

Damn...trying to explain this...

Let's take Thursday night football, and let's assume Atlanta is playing. You can't take the preliminary numbers and put any stock in them for any shows in the same time reference/period. One might think "look how high" but when they are adjusted with the real reports often those shows are getting lower numbers.

Neilsen has a fast rating, another rating covering the same night that comes out a few days later, and then their final ratings which are published quarterly.

OH, here's one you'll identify with. After the LSU v Bama BCSNC game we saw a ton of articles written about it being the lowest game rating for a BCSNC game. But, when the final rankings were published there were three or four games with lower numbers.

At work, we base everything off of those quarterly reports when it comes to market reach.

It's one of those rating system that's quite complicated...but, interesting if you want to spend some time reading over what all goes into it.