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Sun, 25 Aug 2008 20:58:13 GMT

posted by papagei

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FOX WS Game 4 Ratings

Mon, 28 Oct 2008 00:24:00 GMT

posted by hoops26
With the Phillies game 4 win over the Rays, FOX is hoping the all-day NFL/MLB combo leads them to its highest Sunday night rating since the Giants/Patriots Super Bowl.
Here are the details from FOX:

WORLD SERIES GAME 4 DRAWS SERIES-HIGH RATING/AUDIENCE

Phillies Victory Should Propel FOX to Highest-Rated Sunday Night Since Super Bowl XLII

Philadelphia – Game 4 of the 2008 World Series recorded a series-high 9.3/15 household rating/share, with an average audience of 15.5 million viewers, last night on FOX, and is projected to deliver the network its highest-rated, most watched Sunday night since Super Bowl XLII last February, according to figures released today by Nielsen Media Research.

HIGHLIGHTS:
- Last night’s game was down just -11% in rating (vs. 10.4/18) and -4% in average audience when compared to the last non-decisive World Series Game 4, which was played in 2006 (Cardinals-Tigers). Ratings were in fact up among Men 18-34 (+4%) and Adults 18-34 (+2%) and flat among Adults 18-49. Game 4 rated -26% lower than last year’s Game 4 (12.6/21, 20.9 million), which spiked as the Red Sox completed a four-game sweep of Colorado.

- While a national 7-11pm prime time average for FOX is not available, ratings for FOX from 8-11pm averaged a 5.6/15 among A18-49 and 16.1 million total viewers, both well ahead of second-place ABC (3.9/10 and 11.6 million respectively from 7-11pm). FOX’s figures will only improve when the 7-8pm hour, most of which is a very strong NFL overrun, is factored in.

- The first four games of the 2008 World Series have averaged an 8.0/14 nationally (13.0 million viewers), down -25% from last year’s 10.6/18 (17.1 million) for a four-game sweep, and -21% vs. the first four games of 2006 (10.1/17, 15.7 million), however FOX still has a chance to surpass last year on total rating points. Last year’s four-game Series cumulatively produced 42.7 national rating points, while this year’s has totaled 32.7 points. While most observers focus on average rating, total rating points is a closer reflection of how the World Series contributes to FOX's overall prime time success.

- Philadelphia led all markets for Game 4 and posted a Series-high 39.0/54 as the Phillies closed to within one game of their first World Series championship in 28 years. Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg notched a 27.5/41 to place second. Seattle ranked third (13.4), followed by Charlotte and Orlando (both averaging 13.2), with West Palm Beach sixth (13.0). Other markets posting above average viewership for Game 4 include Minneapolis (11.8), Milwaukee (11.6) Phoenix, Salt Lake City and St. Louis (11.4).

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Sat, 7 Sep 2008 22:42:28 GMT

posted by FreebieReporter

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Super Bowl XLII Adverts To Be Featured On YouTube and Hulu - But Not The Game Itself

Sat, 3 Feb 2008 23:37:49 GMT

posted by ChrisTV

Super Bowl XLII is about to start on traditional television all across America, with people having friends and family over to watch the big game, and make an event of the whole thing.

Unfortunately, the only piece of the pie that the online video sites are grabbing a piece of are the adverts.

Both Hulu and YouTube have announced that they will be featuring the commercials extensively immediately after the Super Bowl finishes.

Hulu

The NBC and Fox owned Hulu is planning on posting all of the adverts from the game in high quality at www.hulu.com/superbowl within minutes of the game ending.

It will also be embedding several of the commercials on its blog at http://blog.hulu.com. But there’s not a sign of the game, or even any highlights of it anywhere to be seen on the site.

YouTube

YouTube announced last week that they will also be featuring every single one of the commercials in a YouTube gallery.

Users will then be able to watch the videos, choose their favourites, and share the ones they like with other people on the video sharing site.

The advert chosen as the best, by use of a drag and drop voting mechanism, will then be on the YouTube front page two days later on February 6th.

What About The Game?

The adverts in the breaks between Super Bowl action certainly seem to get more popular as each year goes by, but it’s still a strange and unfortunate decision to make that the only part of the event to get any sort of web coverage.

YouTube claim that less than half of the people who watched the game last year actually had an active interest in the game, the rest being much more focussed on the adverts, or just spending time with family and friends.

Conclusions

In that respect, both YouTube and Hulu have made a sensible decision to just concentrate on securing footage of the adverts, and ignoring the game completely.

The problem is, if video sharing sites, and particularly Hulu, want to legitimately become a viable alternative to broadcast television, they are going to have to start securing the actual big televisual events themselves, rather than the adverts which accompany them.

SalesGenie Apologizes For Super Bowl XLII Commercials Deemed Offensive

Tue, 6 Feb 2008 23:30:00 GMT

posted by anelli

The sponsor of two commercials during Super Bowl XLII for Salesgenie.com, which drew complaints from viewers because of the characters’ ethnic accents, says he is sorry and promises to stop running one of them.

Vinod Gupta, the chairman and chief executive of InfoUSA in Omaha, the parent of Salesgenie.com, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that a commercial featuring two animated pandas speaking with what were intended as Chinese accents would be withdrawn.

“We never thought anyone would be offended,” said Mr. Gupta, who developed and wrote both commercials himself.

“The pandas are Chinese,” he said. “They don’t speak German.”

Still, “if I offended anybody,” Mr. Gupta said, “believe me, I apologize.”

Mr. Gupta said he planned to keep running the other Salesgenie commercial, featuring an animated salesman named Ramesh who speaks with an Indian or other South Asian accent.

An Ad With Talking Pandas, Maybe, But Not With Chinese Accents
[The New York Times]

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