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Reply With QuoteAmerica will watch it, but I'm not too sure about Pakistan or Morocco.
Will this WS be a ratings Hit or ratings dud?
2 Big market teams, but from the same region
No Sunday Night Football and a lead in from the Packers-Vikings (Brett Farve game) on Fox
Yankees in the series
America will watch it, but I'm not too sure about Pakistan or Morocco.
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Yankees-Mets was not so hot via the ratings route. But that might have been because it was too regional. I think this will get fairly good ratings for baseball. The prime time games will win their time slots and will contend for top-rated show of the week. But the numbers won't be American Idol high.
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I know I'll be part of America that watches the World Series, and I could care less who wins it.
Its important to get the casual sports fan / ESPN Junkie to watch these games
The East Coast was going to watch it anyway. They are bigger baseball fans generally speaking. The rest of America? I wouldn't bet on it. I expect pretty low ratings.
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I think the only way that could happen is if the Dodgers had won the NLCS.Originally Posted by zahavasdad
I read somewhere that even though more people live in the LA area, More people in Philly watched the NLCS than in LA and LA is twice as big.
Fortunately, the makeup of the World Series - specifically, the actual teams that are going to be playing - is still out of the networks' control.
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Avatar photograph of weeping Mr. Met by Flickr user Hazboy.
Well look at the type of people that live in LA.
Did the times of the games have anything to do with that?
Fox is expecting a big jump (up ~27%) from last year, which sounds about right to me.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=azGamU5NhW5Y
This year, News Corp.’s Fox Sports unit said it expects to benefit from the inclusion of the 26-time champion Yankees, who play in the world’s biggest television market. At the same time, the return of the Phillies and the improvement in their performance beginning last year will only help to make this series popular with sports fans, a Fox Sports executive said.
“This is going to be, with a little bit of luck, the greatest year-to-year improvement -- as far as ratings -- in World Series history,” Ed Goren, executive producer for Fox Sports, said yesterday on a conference call.
The best-of-seven series between the Phillies and Yankees begins tomorrow at Yankee Stadium.
Last year’s World Series was seen in an average of 8.4 percent of U.S. homes, the only time the rating had dipped below 10 percent since 1970, according to Fox. The rating dropped 21 percent from the Boston Red Sox’s four-game sweep over the Colorado Rockies a year earlier.
World Series ratings twice have increased 27 percent year- over-year. The first came in 1990, when the Cincinnati Reds swept the Oakland Athletics a year after the A’s did the same to the San Francisco Giants in a series that was delayed by 10 days due to an earthquake.
I think it'll be on the low end. Too east-coast to appeal to many fans out west. I dont think even a once-in-a-century Cubs appearance would boost ratings much beyond what we've seen in recent years.
Pshh...forget Americans. Canadians are the deciding factor
LA got Drubbed in the TV Ratings for the LCS in both leagues
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/sp...ratings&st=cse
If LA isnt going to watch the Dodgers and Angels , they arent going to watch east coast teams either.
Ratings for LCS were huge in Philly
Pshh...forget Americans. Canadians are the deciding factor
Nota Bene: the above image is not to be taken in a negative context. I've been a fan of the McKenzie Brothers for almost thirty years and when I first saw them on the television I did not think they were supposed to be Canadian stereotypes, I thought they were a couple of regular guys who just happened to say "eh" a lot.
But just in case anyone took that image the wrong way...
...I think it's great that the Canadian people are able to accept circulating $1 and $2 coins in place of paper money. We can't even get a one dollar coin off the ground!!!!!
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Avatar photograph of weeping Mr. Met by Flickr user Hazboy.
Hell yeah I'll be watchin' . . . it's baseball. I'd have even watched it, if it had been that blue team out west . . . the game is bigger than any one team.
Some's basturds, some's ain't. Thats the score.
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Nota Bene: the above image is not to be taken in a negative context. I've been a fan of the McKenzie Brothers for almost thirty years and when I first saw them on the television I did not think they were supposed to be Canadian stereotypes, I thought they were a couple of regular guys who just happened to say "eh" a lot.
But just in case anyone took that image the wrong way...
...I think it's great that the Canadian people are able to accept circulating $1 and $2 coins in place of paper money. We can't even get a one dollar coin off the ground!!!!!
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If America does not watch this world series, then they are fools.
How many times do you get what really are the best team from each league meet in the world series? Well, you got it this year. This is a great matchup, and if people dont watch this one, no matter where they live or who they root for, then that is just pitiful.
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mighty broad strokes there.
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The New York Yankees versus the defending champions? Derek Almighty Jeter? Pedro? Purple lips? Hell yes people will watch.
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I would have thought the TV execs would be drooling over this WS match up, with 2 big market cities involved, both East Coast meaning Prime Time, and of course having the Yankee factor.
I recall all the whining when it was 2 west coast teams, or even if there was one west coast team. East Coast fans hate it when games are on after midnight (night games from the west coast) whereas west coast fans will get the night games at a very convenient time.
Presumably more west coast fans would watch 2 east coast teams than has been the case with east coast fans watching 2 west coast team, purely because of the timing.
World wide audiences may well be attracted to the Yankee factor!!
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The start times for these games were posted before the ALCS was decided. I'm not sure that the location of the teams makes any difference now to when the TV people decide to have the games played. (PHI@LAD was played a few hours earlier than LAA@NYY.)
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ahhhhh . . . twist me arm.
Some's basturds, some's ain't. Thats the score.
a gametime decision
I'll be watching. Lord knows, I don't have any compelling reason to get up early in the morning these days, might as well watch the whole Series for once in my life.
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White Sox announcer Jimmy Piersall-"So what? I had nine kids."
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