Originally posted by Obveeus: Any idea why Indy fans so obsessed with the Olympics?
Absolutely nothing else to do here. Grown men pay money to go to girls high-school basketball games. Where I grew up, they would have been taken downtown for questioning. Plus Indy is on about their 78th murder of the year (in a city of only about 1 million people), who the hell wants to go outside.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: Didn't the last Winter games have some of the Snowboarding and Ski jumping during the evening hours?
Perhpas we can get some LIVE Primetime Curling games. That was the highlight of the last games, for me.
I don't know about snowboarding but the ski jump was definitely run at night. The curling will definitely be shown at night because it's a huge ratings winner in Canada.
Originally posted by Douglas: You're welcome, Obveeus. And there was no typo - 3 times the rate of Big Brother 10 households in Houston than in New York.
Remind me nevere to move to Houston.
Time for my one rude comment of the day...
Gee, does anyone think that Obveeus doesn't like CBS's "Big Brother"?
A piece of breaking news for you, televisions tend to come with a little device nowadays. It's called a remote control and allows the viewer to change channels from the comfort of their chair or couch. Unless someone has you tied up and forces you to watch "Big Brother" against your will, quit your bitchin' and watch something else.
Originally posted by Ammit: Absolutely nothing else to do here. Grown men pay money to go to girls high-school basketball games. Where I grew up, they would have been taken downtown for questioning. Plus Indy is on about their 78th murder of the year (in a city of only about 1 million people), who the hell wants to go outside.
If you're talking about Indy not having anything to do, then you don't know Indy.
There is plenty to do. Tennis Championships, 3 Major races, plus ORP with weekend races. The Top NHRA event on Labor day weekend, The Best Minor League Baseball Park in America, Pacers, Colts, Fever, NCAA Hall of Fame, Butler UNiv., IUPUI. HS Sports. A Great Downtown night life and tons more.
Originally posted by Obveeus: I've never really understood that either, seeing as how the races are horrible and the people in those seats can't see the races anyway.
History and tradition. I'm generally too cheap to buy tickets to sporting events, but I did go to one race there - the '99 Brickyard. Terrible race and the traffic was a nightmare afterwards, but even without the Indy 500 pageantry it really is quite the feeling to be in that place.
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Ratings of the Summer Olympiad: 2004 vs 2008 -> Week One
I did a little comparison of NBC primetime this past week versus four years ago, and how they competed against the other five English broadcasters in primetime (8-11 pm Monday to Saturday, 7-11 pm Sunday).
Much to my surprise, even with the big uptick in numbers for NBC's Summer Olympics, the other five networks have really dropped the ball in counter-programming, and all five are way off from their numbers of four summers ago.
Overall the six-network numbers are down 17% in A18-49, down 13% in households and down 8% in viewership. CBS is holding up best, placing second in demo, households and videwership.
Here are the four-year-over-four-year numbers, with MNT compared against UPN and The CW compared to The WB...it must be noted that four years ago, UPN had the Nielsen-average-boosting Smackdown numbers factored in, while this year, The CW has the Smackdown numbers goosing their average by quite a bit (take out Smackdown, and The CW is in a dead heat with MyNetworkTV this summer).
demo web demo demo %
Rank web 2008 2004 chg
1 NBC 10.04 9.43 6%
2 CBS 1.34 2.29 -41%
3 FOX 1.09 1.89 -43%
4 ABC 1.05 1.72 -39%
5 CW/wb 0.52 0.94 -44%
6 MNT/upn 0.33 0.94 -65%
total 14.37 17.21 -17%
HH web HH HH HH
rank web 2008 2004 chg
1 NBC 17.4 16.2 8%
2 CBS 3.4 4.8 -29%
3 ABC 2.2 3.2 -33%
4 FOX 2.0 2.9 -32%
5 CW/wb 0.9 1.5 -42%
6 MNT/upn 0.7 1.8 -63%
total 26.5 30.4 -13%
viewers web viewers viewers viewers
rank web 2008 2004 chg
1 NBC 30.274 26.900 13%
2 CBS 5.057 7.029 -28%
3 ABC 3.202 4.757 -33%
4 FOX 2.957 4.433 -33%
5 CW/wb 1.428 2.173 -34%
6 MNT/upn 0.943 2.505 -62%
total 43.86 47.797 -8%
Interesting data dumont. NBC is the only network going up, how often do you get to say that? Overall, the other networks are really hurting against The Olympics this year.
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Originally posted by Jay: [Concerning last night's episode, I found it very interesting when the home viewers - and probably the BB10 contestants - could hear the live studio audience actually cheer when April got eliminated from the Head of Household competition. Perhaps a sign of things to come?
Yet they have no problem with Dan. It's appalling how many viewers think Dan is a good player. If he wins, it will be worse than All-Stars. X_X
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Take sports off that list and what do you have left? I do enjoy my yearly trip to the art gallery though.
I like watching sports on tv (excluding baseball and basketball), but I have no interest in watching them live anymore. The crowds just get on my nerves, the seats are uncomfortable and I can't stand sitting in a car for an hour to get there.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
If you're talking about Indy not having anything to do, then you don't know Indy.
There is plenty to do. Tennis Championships, 3 Major races, plus ORP with weekend races. The Top NHRA event on Labor day weekend, The Best Minor League Baseball Park in America, Pacers, Colts, Fever, NCAA Hall of Fame, Butler UNiv., IUPUI. HS Sports. A Great Downtown night life and tons more.
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We plenty of other offering. This weekedn we have Gen-Con, 85,000 games taking over the convention center and all those hotel rooms.
We have quite a few Cultural Festivals (Chinese, Greek, Black Expo, ext...). We have the Largest Childrens Museum. As I pointed out befor, the Downtown nightlife is very vibrant and full of energy.
But just to point out how sports crazy we are here in Indy, the new Lucus Oil Stadium (New Home of the Colts & the 2012 Super Bowl) opens today and there are public tours. They have 100,000 people taking the tour today. Plus, tonight, the Indians (AAA Baseball) will have a sellout crowd of 18,000 people and we should still post a 40 share for the Olympics tonight.
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Originally posted by Ammit: Take sports off that list and what do you have left? I do enjoy my yearly trip to the art gallery though.
I like watching sports on tv (excluding baseball and basketball), but I have no interest in watching them live anymore. The crowds just get on my nerves, the seats are uncomfortable and I can't stand sitting in a car for an hour to get there.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
If you're talking about Indy not having anything to do, then you don't know Indy.
There is plenty to do. Tennis Championships, 3 Major races, plus ORP with weekend races. The Top NHRA event on Labor day weekend, The Best Minor League Baseball Park in America, Pacers, Colts, Fever, NCAA Hall of Fame, Butler UNiv., IUPUI. HS Sports. A Great Downtown night life and tons more.
Originally posted by Obveeus: As long as you have a movie theater, some good restaurants, and some lakes/rivers/ocean/hiking, what more is needed? Sports venues...nope.
With exception of the Ocean, we have ALL that. This is a pretty diverse city.
Indy is a prime example of what investing in Sports can do for the entire community, even if they are not sports fans themselves.
I can vouch for that. The people here are nuts about sports. And not just professional leagues. People flock to everything from little kids baseball to high-school sports.
LOL! OK TV-aholic, you win. There's plenty to do in Indy if you aren't me. Actually, Gen-con is right up my alley. One of these days I will brave the crowds and the car-ride and go see it.
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Originally posted by TV-aholic: But just to point out how sports crazy we are here in Indy, the new Lucus Oil Stadium (New Home of the Colts & the 2012 Super Bowl) opens today and there are public tours. They have 100,000 people taking the tour today. Plus, tonight, the Indians (AAA Baseball) will have a sellout crowd of 18,000 people and we should still post a 40 share for the Olympics tonight.
Originally posted by TV-aholic: Here's a technical question. Would NBC recieve credit for raings of the same show, if it had different LIVE events on the West Coast than what we see on the east, even though its the same program?
Personally, I think NBC should be LIVE from 8pm ET through 6am. Give a 30 minute brake (accross the country) for Locals to have news. Now, this would only work for this Olympics.
Come 2012, in London, Nothing will be live for Primetime viewing. But the 2010 Winter games, in Vancouver, should have plenty of events in the evening hours.
Thanks for the link. It made me chuckle. "Hmm, we can land a spacecraft on Mars, but we can’t strip off a misleading graphic from videotape."
They do this because they want the olympics in primetime, right? But they don't end until after midnight here, so starting them at 6pm instead of 7 would still leave a giant chunk in prime time.
How did NBC handle primetime coverage for the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Did they delay the important events for viewing in primetime, or was there just a higlights show in primetime after all the events aired during the morning and daytime.
Plus Indy is on about their 78th murder of the year (in a city of only about 1 million people), who the hell wants to go outside.
