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Pitt TV ratings this year

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Oct 30, 2001
70,290
22,931
113
1. WVU 1.15 million
2. Syracuse 948K
3. Cal 741K
4. UNC 645K
5. Cincy 304K
6. Kent 82K

YSU and SMU on ACCN and not rated.

Couple things

1. Both Pitt/UNC and Pitt/Cincy noon on ESPN2. 340K more viewers for UNC shows you little a draw that Cincy/Big 12 is.

2. I thought ESPN made a mistake relegating the Brawl to ESPN2. Oklahoma/Tulane only beat it by 250K. ESPK always wins those.

3. Cal/Pitt on ESPN at 3:30 beat the big-time B12 matchup of Cincy/UCF on ESPN2 by 460K.

4. I know its obscure-ass ESPNU and up against PSU/WVU but 82K for Kent St is a terrible number.
 
1. WVU 1.15 million
2. Syracuse 948K
3. Cal 741K
4. UNC 645K
5. Cincy 304K
6. Kent 82K

YSU and SMU on ACCN and not rated.

Couple things

1. Both Pitt/UNC and Pitt/Cincy noon on ESPN2. 340K more viewers for UNC shows you little a draw that Cincy/Big 12 is.

2. I thought ESPN made a mistake relegating the Brawl to ESPN2. Oklahoma/Tulane only beat it by 250K. ESPK always wins those.

3. Cal/Pitt on ESPN at 3:30 beat the big-time B12 matchup of Cincy/UCF on ESPN2 by 460K.

4. I know its obscure-ass ESPNU and up against PSU/WVU but 82K for Kent St is a terrible number.
Utah and others will be begging ACC for invites in a few years.
 
viewership is self prophesizing. Put a game on a channel you think will get more viewers, that channel has more subscribers, that channel gets more viewers. there you were right about which teams get the most eyeballs.

The day the ACC adjusts any payments based on viewership, I'm done.

BTW - how small would the ACCCG be with an SMU/Miami matchup? two small fanbases. Max 45K in a 75K stadium, great for optics
 
viewership is self prophesizing.

Not really.
Sure, if you get put on some public access channel, you aren’t going to have as big of an audience.

But if you aren’t a draw, you aren’t going to have as many eyeballs as the next team down the road would have in that time slot snd channel.
 
1. WVU 1.15 million
2. Syracuse 948K
3. Cal 741K
4. UNC 645K
5. Cincy 304K
6. Kent 82K

YSU and SMU on ACCN and not rated.

Couple things

1. Both Pitt/UNC and Pitt/Cincy noon on ESPN2. 340K more viewers for UNC shows you little a draw that Cincy/Big 12 is.

2. I thought ESPN made a mistake relegating the Brawl to ESPN2. Oklahoma/Tulane only beat it by 250K. ESPK always wins those.

3. Cal/Pitt on ESPN at 3:30 beat the big-time B12 matchup of Cincy/UCF on ESPN2 by 460K.

4. I know its obscure-ass ESPNU and up against PSU/WVU but 82K for Kent St is a terrible number.
A couple of comments. The bump up on ESPN from ESPN2 is likely 50% in viewership. It is the default station for bars and people and some people who have Gameday on just don't move off of ESPN.

We have been hit by going directly against PSU in some of these games. Like it or not, they are a draw and alot of local casual football fans automatically default to PSU.
 
BTW - how small would the ACCCG be with an SMU/Miami matchup? two small fanbases. Max 45K in a 75K stadium, great for optics
Well, I can't say I know the numbers off the top of my head, but I imagine that Wake Forest and we didn't set records for at-game attendance or on-TV viewers when we played in the ACCCG ... but to your point, the optics in the stadium might be poor but I'd wager that the game (SMU vs UM) would be fun to watch
 
Well, I can't say I know the numbers off the top of my head, but I imagine that Wake Forest and we didn't set records for at-game attendance or on-TV viewers when we played in the ACCCG ... but to your point, the optics in the stadium might be poor but I'd wager that the game (SMU vs UM) would be fun to watch
Pitt/Wake was the lowest in a long time and still had 57k. Last year was 62k and the game averages just over 60k so it's not like it matters that much.
 
viewership is self prophesizing. Put a game on a channel you think will get more viewers, that channel has more subscribers, that channel gets more viewers. there you were right about which teams get the most eyeballs.

The day the ACC adjusts any payments based on viewership, I'm done.

BTW - how small would the ACCCG be with an SMU/Miami matchup? two small fanbases. Max 45K in a 75K stadium, great for optics

This is correct which I absolutely dont think payouts should be based on ratings. Ratings are a factor of the "tier" of channel you are on. ABC>ESPN>ESPN2>ACCN. Duquesne/RMU on ABC at 3:30 does better than Pitt/WVU on ESPN2 at 3:30. Now, always being put on ABC or ESPN does say something about your appeal so there's that. I believe a third party firm should look at each program and come up with a value of what percentage of the contract is the result of each team's home games. For example, if 20% of the value comes from FSU home games and 5% come from BC, they should be paid as such.
 
viewership is self prophesizing. Put a game on a channel you think will get more viewers, that channel has more subscribers, that channel gets more viewers. there you were right about which teams get the most eyeballs.

The day the ACC adjusts any payments based on viewership, I'm done.

BTW - how small would the ACCCG be with an SMU/Miami matchup? two small fanbases. Max 45K in a 75K stadium, great for optics

Similar to Pitt/Wake, which had very good attendance. It "felt" like a sellout because the lower bowl was full and the upper sidelines were mostly full.

Miami would travel probably a little better than Pitt if they are 12-0. SMU probably brings an amount a little less than Wake.
 
For those ragging on the Big12 ratings they have teams that people don't care about. I'm sure WVU, Oklahoma St, Iowa St pull in similar ratings as their ACC peers. The problem is not matter how good they are, the casual fan will never care about Cincy, UCF, and to a lesser extent BYU.
 
For those ragging on the Big12 ratings they have teams that people don't care about. I'm sure WVU, Oklahoma St, Iowa St pull in similar ratings as their ACC peers. The problem is not matter how good they are, the casual fan will never care about Cincy, UCF, and to a lesser extent BYU.
The ACC is made up of alot of smaller, private schools in urban settings. The Big 12 is made up of mostly rural schools in smaller states or schools that are generally second/third/4th choices in their own state. Hence why the SEC and Big 10 picked off the other schools.
 
The ACC is made up of alot of smaller, private schools in urban settings. The Big 12 is made up of mostly rural schools in smaller states or schools that are generally second/third/4th choices in their own state. Hence why the SEC and Big 10 picked off the other schools.
It's almost like what we said would happen is exactly what happened.
 
Pitt/Wake was the lowest in a long time and still had 57k. Last year was 62k and the game averages just over 60k so it's not like it matters that much.
I still remember those BC-VT ACC championship games shortly after those schools left the Big East for the ACC. Man, attendance was awful for at least one of those.
 
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