These are from the weekend of 11/15 and 11/16. The LOORRS broadcast had the more favorable slot in that it was shown on Saturday, up against significantly weaker college football broadcasts vs. the 11/16 GRC show which faced off against nationally televised NFL football. The GRC broadcast was a showdown between Joni Wiman and Ken Block for the 2015 driver's title with Wiman coming out on top by finishing second to Block and garnering enough points to retain first place for the year (though his lack of a single win on the year will likely drive a change in the way GRC scores points for each event in '15)Neither show fared that well, though the LOORRS show was no worse than its typical ratings. GRC's 0.3 rating ties for its worst of the year and shortest of its brief existence. This will wrap up GRC's programing for the year I would imagine and so I'll recap their ratings for their events below, prior to the weekend's full ratings. Their high for the year was a 0.5, equating to 578,000 households and some 636,000 actual viewers and the low was a 0.3, equating to 350,000 and 382,000 viewers. Overall this puts Global RallyCross a bit behind the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series shows as we will recap in the future. Of note is the recent F1 ratings on NBC for the Brazil event which grabbed a 0.5 rating and two weeks prior a 0.7 rating for the USGP in Texas. NBC paid $3 Million to acquire the rights to F1 in the US (prior to any production, talent, coverage costs), so to have LOORRS and GRC somewhat equaling those ratings with what is essentially a paid advertisement, costing the networks nothing, both can be viewed as being successful on their own terms. Though when you compare the measly $3 million paid for F1 to the $2.4 billion Fox paid for NASCAR (not completely an apples to apples comparison but you get the idea) you understand how far behind in the Q ratings sports like F1, RallyCross or short course are from NAPCAR.
Global RallyCross 2015 Ratings:
5/24--0.4
6/22--0.3
7/20--0.5
7/26--0.3
8/03--0.3
9/20--0.5
9/21--0.3
| NFL: Eagles-Packers (84%) |
11/16
|
Fox
|
4:25-7:30pm
|
17.1
|
| "Sunday Night Football": Patriots-Colts |
11/16
|
NBC
|
8:30-11:15pm
|
13.6
|
| NFL: (singleheader) |
11/16
|
CBS
|
1:00-4:05pm
|
11.7
|
| NFL: (regional) |
11/16
|
Fox
|
1:00-4:15pm
|
10.1
|
| College Football: Mississippi State-Alabama |
11/15
|
CBS
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
6.6
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| College Football: Florida State-Miami |
11/15
|
ABC
|
8:00-11:45pm
|
6.1
|
| "Football Night in America" |
11/16
|
NBC
|
7:30-8:15pm
|
5.4
|
| College Football: Ohio State-Minnesota |
11/15
|
ABC
|
12:00-3:30pm
|
4.3
|
| "Fox NFL Sunday" |
11/16
|
Fox
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
3.5
|
| "The NFL Today" |
11/16
|
CBS
|
12:00-1:00pm
|
2.8
|
| College Football: Nebraska-Minnesota |
11/15
|
ABC
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
2.3
|
| College Football: Northwestern-Notre Dame |
11/15
|
NBC
|
3:30-8:00pm
|
2.0
|
| "Courage in Sports" |
11/16
|
CBS
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
1.5
|
| "College Football Today" |
11/15
|
CBS
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
1.0
|
| College Football: Texas-Oklahoma State |
11/15
|
Fox
|
7:30-11:00pm
|
1.0
|
| College Football: Washington-Arizona |
11/15
|
Fox
|
3:30-7:15pm
|
0.9
|
| ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating: Russia |
11/16
|
NBC
|
4:00-6:00pm
|
0.9
|
| "Fox College Saturday" |
11/15
|
Fox
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.5
|
| Ironman World Championship |
11/15
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:00pm
|
0.5
|
| "Notre Dame Football Pre-Game" |
11/15
|
NBC
|
3:00-3:30pm
|
0.5
|
| Lucas Oil Off Road Racing |
11/15
|
CBS
|
1:00-2:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football's Open Season: Vanderbilt" |
11/15
|
CBS
|
2:00-2:30pm
|
0.4
|
| "College Football's Open Season: Arkansas" |
11/15
|
CBS
|
2:30-3:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "World of X Games: ASP Surfing" |
11/16
|
ABC
|
5:00-6:00pm
|
0.4
|
| "The Grantland Basketball Hour" |
11/16
|
ABC
|
4:00-5:00pm
|
0.3
|
| Global Rallycross: Las Vegas |
11/16
|
NBC
|
1:30-3:00pm
|
0.3
|
| Spartan Race: Vermont |
11/16
|
NBC
|
3:00-4:00pm
|
0.3
|
