Monday, November 28, 2011

Wish I Had Better News...

regarding the ratings from this past weekend's LOORRS race that was broadcast on CBS.

The LOORRS race that ran in this exact same timeslot one year ago saw a 1.2 rating and 1.53 million viewers for the broadcast.  It marked a high point for short course TV viewership in recent memory.  Dirt Sport magazine lauded the result in a following issue and many thought that people across the country had finally caught on.

Not so much.

Since that watershed rating the LOORRS broadcasts have garnered a 0.5, 0.6, 0.5, 0.4, 0.3, and 0.3 ratings all prior to this past semi-holiday weekend.

This weekend's LOORRS broadcast generated another 0.4 rating equating to 510,000 viewers of the program (you can see prior posts on this topic as to how I calculate this number).  Yes this is an uptick from the prior two broadcasts but I don't think anywhere near what was hoped for at the beginning of the year.  With the consistency that these numbers show I think its clear that last Thanksgiving's ratings were a fluke--either a mistake in the ratings calculation or a remarkable stroke of lighting on that day.



TELECAST
DATE
NET
TIME (ET)
RAT.
"NFL on Fox": Packers-Lions
11/24
Fox
12:30-4:00pm
15.8
"The NFL Today"
11/24
CBS
3:30-4:00pm
5.6
"NFL on CBS": Dolphins-Cowboys
11/24
CBS
4:00-7:00pm
15.3
National Dog Show (taped)
11/24
NBC
12:00-2:00pm
4.8
NCAA Football: Iowa-Nebraska
11/25
ABC
12:00-3:30pm
2.2
NCAA Football: Boston College-Miami
11/25
ABC
3:30-7:00pm
1.5
"Best of College Football 2011"
11/25
CBS
1:30-2:30pm
1.3
NCAA Football: Arkansas-LSU
11/25
CBS
2:30-6:00pm
6.1
NHL: Red Wings-Bruins
11/25
NBC
1:00-4:00pm
1.0
NCAA Football: Ohio State-Michigan
11/26
ABC
12:00-3:30pm
5.3
NCAA Football: (regional)
11/26
ABC
3:30-7:00pm
3.2
NCAA Football: Notre Dame-Stanford
11/26
ABC
8:00-11:45pm
4.1
Lucas Oil Off Road Racing (taped)
11/26
CBS
1:30-2:30pm
0.4
"CBS College Football 2011"
11/26
CBS
2:30-3:00pm
0.5
"College Football Today"
11/26
CBS
3:00-3:30pm
0.8
NCAA Football: Alabama-Auburn
11/26
CBS
3:30-7:00pm
4.4
NCAA Football: Bayou Classic: Grambling State-Southern
11/26
NBC
2:30-6:00pm
0.6
"The NFL Today"
11/27
CBS
12:00-1:00pm
2.8
"NFL on CBS": (regional)
11/27
CBS
1:00-4:15pm
12.2
"NFL on CBS": Patriots-Eagles (72%)
11/27
CBS
4:15-7:30pm
15.6
"Fox NFL Sunday"
11/27
Fox
12:00-1:00pm
3.1
"NFL on Fox": (single)
11/27
Fox
1:00-4:05pm
11.7
Skiing: Aspen Winternational (taped)
11/27
NBC
1:00-2:00pm
0.6
Figure Skating: ISU Grand Prix (taped)
11/27
NBC
2:00-4:00pm
0.9
Figure Skating: Unforgettable Holiday Moments on Ice (taped)
11/27
NBC
4:00-6:00pm
1.1
"Football Night in America"
11/27
NBC
7:30-8:15pm
4.6
"Sunday Night Football": Steelers-Chiefs
11/27
NBC
8:30-11:30pm
12.5

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