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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:05 PM
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Head Coach [925]
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:12 PM
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Maybe because they realize it is not "College" football. It is semi-pro football where we pamper 18 to 21 year olds and pay them at the same time.
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This!***
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:15 PM
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I suspect some of it is people are disgusted with the state of the sport, i.e., it's professional football, not college, and all regionalism of the sport is being destroyed.
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CU Medallion [18014]
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There was an an alarmingly low amount of watchable games
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:16 PM
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this weekend
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Heisman Winner [85933]
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"wathable"
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:17 PM
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HTH
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CU Medallion [18014]
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You had a typo, let it go, it will be alright...I won't
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:27 PM
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reference it for years like your circle jerk buddies, you can drop the bit
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Heisman Winner [85933]
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Fine,
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:35 PM
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let's all a ruce.
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CU Medallion [18014]
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I don't care about a truce, but you can certainly put that
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Sep 6, 2023, 5:06 PM
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tired bit to bed, it was just a typo, you don't have to try so hard
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Heisman Winner [85933]
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Personally, I never believe someone when they say they
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Sep 6, 2023, 5:25 PM
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don't car.
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CU Medallion [18014]
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That typo really bothered you THIS bad?***
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Sep 6, 2023, 5:27 PM
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Heisman Winner [84988]
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I think he has obsessive compulsive disodor.
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Sep 6, 2023, 6:38 PM
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Freshman [10]
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
Sep 6, 2023, 4:20 PM
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Let’s wait a bit. There have only been 2 or 3 matchups worth watching since the season began.
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Dynasty Maker [3392]
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ESPN vs. Charter pissing match
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definitely did not help ratings. I am with Directv and we have not had CBS in more than a month.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
Sep 6, 2023, 4:28 PM
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Funny, after 2-hrs on hold I just dropped all Spectrum services. They made no attempt to offer me anything.
My plan is to find the games where I have to find them. I’m not planning to restore the service either.
I have two short term rentals, so I may have to capitulate there.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Sep 6, 2023, 6:04 PM
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Spectrum stepped up their game when we called. It only took one hour to cancel instead of two.
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ABC and ESPN can keep lying to themselves...
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:30 PM
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if it makes them feel better, but the Charter-ESPN dispute has very little to do with the decline in viewership. People are simply fed up with the bias, NIL, and the transfer portal.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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I don't believe that is all due to Spectrum's dropping ESPN. Most people subscribe to streaming services instead of using cable. Maybe the state of the sport has something to do with it. For instance, players coming and going, conferences being raided and disappearing, and teams composed mostly of players that used to be on other teams. There is no consistency in college football.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Sep 6, 2023, 6:32 PM
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I believe that you have captured the essence of what stinks (see what I did here) about college football.
Long response to follow (below):
College FB, much more so than NFL FB, is founded in tradition.
Traditional rivalries between teams still means a lot for most CFB fans.
Competing for a title in a traditional FB conference with (at least some) traditional rivalries still means a lot.
This aspect of college FB had been recognized by NCAA and the various networks which covered the various conferences. That is why invitation to CFP gave special weighting to conference champions, instead of just picking four teams from among the SEC, B1G, and from USC, TX, and N.Dame.
(*). Now we have two platforms that dominate the airing of games to the public; both platforms have placed big bets that a boom in viewership from the expanded playoffs had only minimal downside. ESPN and the consortium of Fox / CBS / NBC (the ‘content providers’) could not have predicted that the accelerating expansion of the big bucks SEC and B1G conferences … whose competition to expand via acquisition of new high profile (ratings-worthy) teams … would lead to the destruction of a famous & respected conference (PAC 12) and the schizophrenic realignment of the Big 12. These two ‘content providers’ certainly saw that they had the power to either blackmail the third party viewership platforms that did not own the CFB ‘content’ -or- bypass those third party viewership platforms via the content providers’ own streaming networks.
(*). I doubt that the two mega-beast ‘content provider’ entities understood the risk that their CFB ‘content’ would create significant end-customer apathy (via disengagement by disillusioned former fans of demolished conferences and traditional rivalry games).
(***). Market Watch had predicted that Disney will spin off ABC (along with ESPN) before end of 2023 so that their ‘content’ products can be sold directly (via Hulu &/or other streaming services) to end customers … and cutting off any incalcitrant cable providers such as Charter / Spectrum and maybe X-Finity / Comcast) if need be. Without Big Daddy Disney as a financial backstop for ESPN, it is not beyond reason that ESPN’s and Fox / CBS / NBC consortiums’ future CFB contracts for will become LESS lucrative instead of more lucrative for the CFB teams which ‘create’ the content. Unpredicted levels of viewer apathy from former CFB fans of the ‘foresaken’ conferences / teams could be the catalyst that screws up the revenue models for the SEC and B1G all out of proportion to the damage to the revenue models for the ‘also ran’ conferences.
We’ll see.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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Good. I hope Disney loses money.
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:52 PM
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I wasn't interested in the FSU game. Watched n.carolina for a few minutes. Watched a few minutes of tcu...
But there really was much going on. Did the big 10 even play a big game?
I don't think s.carolina vs unc on prime time Saturday 🌃 was must see tv.
I believe it's all cupcakes this weekend too.
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Not surprising. This was the weakest opening week of games that I can remember in long time, and ESPN has lost its monopoly on CFB. If you noticed, a lot of the bigger games on Saturday were on FOX, CBS, and NBC.
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Re: College football ratings down 41% on ABC, down 44% on ESPN
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F um all. So sick of big business.
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CU Medallion [20774]
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I suspect everyone on this thread watched at least two games this past weekend
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Sep 6, 2023, 4:58 PM
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I don’t think the viewer ship is down because of NIL, etc
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But people went out of their way to watch the biggest game
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“Despite the ongoing blackout of ESPN networks for 14.7 million subscribers, the network’s Sept. 3 coverage of Florida State-LSU drew an average of 9.1 million viewers, its best Labor Day Sunday college football game since 2016.”
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CU Medallion [18014]
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Look at some of those other Sunday matchups since 2016***
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9.1 million viewers would have ranked it 4th amongst
Sep 6, 2023, 9:51 PM
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All 2022 games. They did that without 14 mil subscribers able to get it. It would have easily been 2nd most when compared to last year had those subscribers had the option
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