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The FIFA World Cup Thread (Spoilers Welcome)

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ABC might account for group/bar viewings to help bolster their numbers whereas Nielsen typically does not. They may also be accounting for next-day DVR viewings as well. I think anything outside of the 24-hours window is excluded, but don't quote me on that.
 
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ESPN and Univision combined averaged 15.9 million viewers for USA-Ghana yesterday -- a huge number.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
ABC might account for group/bar viewings to help bolster their numbers whereas Nielsen typically does not. They may also be accounting for next-day DVR viewings as well. I think anything outside of the 24-hours window is excluded, but don't quote me on that.
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Yeah, they do "Live + Same Day" for programming.

Considering the massive viewing parties that were set up for yesterday, ESPN might want to add a bit to that viewership number :)

Also, ESPN was averaging 643,000 viewers online for the World Cup. Will be interesting to see what those viewership numbers look like for the USA-GHA game.
 
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Would you mind explaining how this further?
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Traditional Nielsen ratings have two numbers: the rating and the share. The rating is the number of households tuned into a broadcast, and the share is the percentage of all households watching tv at a given time that are tuned in to that particular program.

Ratings are defined as so many households = a point. But that number differs between OTA networks and cable channels (and perhaps again for premium channels or non-basic cable, I forget). I don't know the exact numbers, but a ratings point for the OTA networks requires more viewers than the same number for an ESPN or TBS broadcast, for instance, because there are more tvs that get the OTA networks.

I want to say a 1.0 rating for a network like NBC means 1.5 million households are tuned in while a 1.0 rating for ESPN = 1.1 million, but again I don't know the exact difference, just that it exists.
 
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J.D. said:
Right, but you sound like a legit soccer fan. There are plenty of people out there who simply don't think of this like the real, hardcore fans. To be honest, I haven't seen the real fans on here go overboard about the W in hindsight. Sure, at the time maybe we were all a bit excited but I think we all grasp that it wasn't a great performance. Even Klinsmann acknowledged that.
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Hardly legit. maybe watching more and more of it, but I would not exactly call myself legit.

I will claim watching the WC since the 80's, and very much remember Columbia's own goal for us in '94. And maybe having our team advance to the second round 20 years ago makes me think that we should be doing that every WC.
 
unofan said:
Traditional Nielsen ratings have two numbers: the rating and the share. The rating is the number of households tuned into a broadcast, and the share is the percentage of all households watching tv at a given time that are tuned in to that particular program.

Ratings are defined as so many households = a point. But that number differs between OTA networks and cable channels (and perhaps again for premium channels or non-basic cable, I forget). I don't know the exact numbers, but a ratings point for the OTA networks requires more viewers than the same number for an ESPN or TBS broadcast, for instance, because there are more tvs that get the OTA networks.

I want to say a 1.0 rating for a network like NBC means 1.5 million households are tuned in while a 1.0 rating for ESPN = 1.1 million, but again I don't know the exact difference, just that it exists.
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To further clarify, a ratings point is equal to 1 percent of television households. But since roughly 15% of American television households only receive OTA channels and not satellite or cable, the number of households for OTA channels is larger, and 1 percent of that market represents an inherently larger number of total households than one percent of just the pay TV market.
 
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If Fred keeps messing up like this, Howard is going to yell at him and Robin will laugh. At least it takes some of the heat off of Baba Booey.
 
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alfablue said:
Hardly legit. maybe watching more and more of it, but I would not exactly call myself legit.

I will claim watching the WC since the 80's, and very much remember Columbia's own goal for us in '94. And maybe having our team advance to the second round 20 years ago makes me think that we should be doing that every WC.
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Let's remember that in '94, the tournament was 24 teams and the US advanced as one of the top teams to finish 3rd in their group.
 
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I got... Hunglargio


Bucky Badger gets... Badgeiro
 
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