Comments on: Rainy Game 5 of World Series Draws 13.2 Million and Fox’s Best Monday Since May

By: Cohen

Cohen — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:44:18 +0000

Baseball: America’s favorite pastime? Not any more. Among steroids, lack of exciting players, and competition of other sports, baseball is slowly going where boxing is right now…Oh, well…

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:05:12 +0000

We’ll see the data, but with the debates the numbers did not count towards network weekly averages or season-to-date totals (the post-debate analysis was counted though). Since the Obama program is paid for (versus advertising supported) I’m not sure how it will count.

By: Bill Gorman

Bill Gorman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:57:01 +0000

Johnny, My guess is we will see numbers from Nielsen in the same way we did with the debates, but I am not certain.

By: Johnny Shoe

Johnny Shoe — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:07:01 +0000

This is/was the best thing FOX could have hoped for. They will have the Obama thing on from 8-8:30 then the last three innings of game five. Question: Will the Obama thing count towards the ratings? Or be metered?

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:49:07 +0000

Ah, gotcha. But it really has never happened before. I see it as savvy PR, but I’m with you either way, I love it!

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:46:39 +0000

No the whole “Don’t compare us to any other year! This doesn’t count!”

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:43:56 +0000

defensive because they brought up the Nielsen rules on combining or something else? If that, I see that as excellent attention to detail on Fox’s part! They’re very forthcoming about it being down 24% vs. last year without masking it. I find it very refreshing!

By: Julia

Julia — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:37:55 +0000

Ha. I love how defensive they are.