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Why not simulcast ESPN's NFL Draft coverage on ABC?
- Thread starter Don CT
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I'm actually enjoying the triple cast. They're each very different. The ABC show is more about entertainment. They had Taylor Swift and Luke Bryan last night. ESPN is more sports oriented. The NFL Network is a lot deeper in the woods. Looking at last night's ratings, ESPN had the largest audience with 4.8 million, ABC was slightly lower with 4.5 million, and the NFL Network was under 2 million. The combined numbers for ABC & ESPN were pretty good. They spent a ton of money on the production.
What is really interesting is how this event has grown in popularity over the years, thus demanding more media coverage. I don’t blame abc and espn for milking it for all its worth. Simple economics here if the audience is there, go for it!
At least it's honest, which is far more than one can say for the NBA, which has been fixed since the day they came up with the "lottery" in 1985.
It's Rounds 4-7, which will be of interest only when your team is on the clock and immediately thereafter -- about 10 minute spurts per pick.
Honestly, you have to be a football freak to care about the final day of the draft. The only real interesting day is the first round. And most of that is after, hearing everyone complain about the first day.
Then again, what else does ABC Sports/ESPN have to run? Baseball? No. Hockey? No. College baseball? ESPN2.
It fills a Saturday afternoon with live programming and amortizes the expense of their production.
It gives viewers an option from either hockey or golf.
How many infomercials do the affiliates usually have on a Saturday? 7 hours of network coverage can't be helping the locals.
If you're an ABC affiliate, Saturday afternoon is some kind of network sports. Next Saturday, they'll have 2 hours of X Games and 2 hours of NFL Draft analysis.
The thing I notice about today is if you're a player, and you haven't been called in the first 2 rounds, you're not hanging around the green room waiting to walk on stage hug the commissioner.
They took a page from NBC's Olympic coverage book. Making it more non-sports-fan friendly on the broadcast network.
Anyone who follows the NFL regularly knows that the most important rounds for filling out your team are the 2nd through the 5th. Those are your "blue collar" workhorses who won't start out as famous as the golden boys of the 1st round, all of whom are expected to start immediately. But only real fans of the game, or at least the team on the clock at a given time will be interested.
Those watching ABC are less likely to be true football nerds than those watching ESPN or NFL Network. I'm surprised ABC aired the whole thing on Saturday, even if it was an ESPN simulcast, regardless of what would normally air at the time.
My theory is it's about delivering a number to advertisers. The combined number (and we'll see it Monday) is bigger than just ESPN. The Thursday night numbers completely blew away what Fox got last year. And ABC wants to look good to the NFL, because there's a new deal coming up soon.
Not often you hear about an E/I program being ran at 6:00PM on a Saturday night. Yeah, it happened here in Yakima. Vacation Creation and the other 9-11am Sat Weekend Adventure shows got bumped that late in the day.
With live 5PM PT American Idol and two NBA playoffs, the Sunday option isn't open for KAPP. Usually they make-good those Weekend Adventure shows on Sunday mornings around 10-1PM.
With live 5PM PT American Idol and two NBA playoffs, the Sunday option isn't open for KAPP. Usually they make-good those Weekend Adventure shows on Sunday mornings around 10-1PM.
Likely the same reason why they can't move any of the NBA games today- If they moved one to 4pm EST, there's the chance)a very slim one at that) that it would run into American Idol, so it makes sense for 1 and 3:30 games today.
That appears to be correct, however, that's because Fox broadcast the first two rounds:
Coverage of the draft was broadcast by ESPN and NFL Network, with Fox also simulcasting NFL Network's coverage of the first two rounds of broadcast television (serving as a prelude for Fox's acquisition of Thursday Night Football for the 2018 season). ESPN aired coverage of the last four rounds on ABC. College GameDay broadcast a special edition from outside AT&T Stadium as a pre-show on ESPN, and its panel hosted a secondary broadcast of the first round on ESPN2. ESPN Deportes broadcast coverage in Spanish.
I forgot all about Fox having it last year. Maybe because it was just the NFL Network feed that it just blended in. Or Fox didn't promote it as much as ESPN/ABC did.
Interesting to compare the productions of the NFL Network and ESPN/ABC. The NFL Network build a studio position about 5 blocks away from the stage, while ESPN was less than a block away, and ABC had a position on top of a building across the street from the stage. The ABC camera position faced away from the stage, so the audience saw the crowd, while the ESPN camera position faced the stage. Quite often the ESPN announcers had to turn around to see what was happening on stage. The NFL position also faced the stage, but because it was so far away, lacked a lot of the intensity of the ESPN/ABC positions. ESPN seemed to have cameras all around the area, including one that could shoot up and down the street, hung from a zip line overhead. It's probably the same camera they use in stadiums. They also had the blimp. Quite a production. Lot of money spent. It'll be interesting to see how they handle Las Vegas next year. I imagine they'll duplicate the outdoor setting, but on the Las Vegas strip.
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