The Sports Media Thread

[Don Ho]

30 for 30 next Tuesday, No Mas.  Roberto Duran/Sugar Ray Leonard Rivalry.  That's got to be good.

[ice grillin you]

30 for 30 next Tuesday, No Mas.  Roberto Duran/Sugar Ray Leonard Rivalry.  That's got to be good.

yeah that one looks awesome

i wonder if roberto still despises sugga

[Rome]

Not any mas.

[hbionic]

That's was pretty funny Rome.

I'm proud of you. 

[PhillyPhreak54]

No Más es muy bien.

[PhillyPhreak54]

30 for 30 hits another homer

This John Spano Islanders one is fantastic

[MDS]

directed by e from entourage

[ice grillin you]

30 for 30 hits another homer

This John Spano Islanders one is fantastic

what?!?....it was awful

kevin connelly is farging hack and the worst narrator ive ever heard

[smeags]

30 for 30 hits another homer

This John Spano Islanders one is fantastic

agreed. good stuff. how long before he gets nailed for fraud again ?

[ice grillin you]

dont farg with the mothership.....

With the advent of Fox Sports 1 and NBCSN and their aspirations to climb the mountain and challenge ESPN, it's easy to forget just how tall that mountain is.  It's not just climbing Mount Everest, it's trying to climb Olympus Mons.  Check that, it's like building your own rocketship, conquering a manned space flight to Mars, and then climbing the largest mountain in the solar system.

In other words, challenging ESPN is really $#%ing hard.

Your latest reminder comes in the ratings data for the 5 PM talk show block where PTI and Around the Horn have been staples for a decade.  According to John Ourand of SBJ, ratings are actually down for those two ESPN flagship shows this year.  PTI has fallen from 1.3 million viewers in the fall of 2010 to 961,000 this fall.  Similarly, ATH has fallen 943,000 to 763,000 viewers.  However, ESPN folks point to the rise in DVR viewership and streaming/mobile viewership that they believe more than makes up the deficit.

In comparison, Crowd Goes Wild on FS1 is averaging 64,000 viewers.

Pro Football Talk on NBCSN is averaging 47,000 viewers.

That means PTI has 15 times the viewership of FS1 at the moment and 20 times the viewership of NBCSN at the same timeslot.  That's not just a healthy lead for ESPN.  That's like Usain Bolt running a match race against Ted Washington and Keith Traylor.  Fox Sports 1 talked a big game when they launched and they would have to double their audience four times over to reach PTI audience levels at 5:30 PM ET. 

What's more, FS1 and NBCSN are even registering viewership levels behind the routinely panned Intentional Talk on MLB Network at 72,000 viewers.  These two networks have found the quest for viewers much mroe difficult than imagined.  Perhaps viewers will gradually come as their live sports portfolios continue to improve.  Nevertheless, this is just one fact that points to this truth - it's going to take a generation or more for either network to even begin to reach ESPN's stratosphere of viewership levels.

[QB Eagles]

There's a show called Intentional Talk? That's farging horrible.

[Geowhizzer]

There's a show called Intentional Talk? That's farging horrible.

[ice grillin you]

erin andrews is ridiculous on the fox pregame show today...she has close to a labia cut skirt on

shes the worst pregame show host ive ever seen tho

[Rome]

When you're that hot you could speak in morse code and it wouldn't  matter.

[ice grillin you]

it also allows here to be a total bitch I guess.....for a know nothing shes such a funhole on the show