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Last Night's Big Winners Weren't The Seattle Seahawks!

J

Joseph_Gallant

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The ratings are in for yesterday's (January 22nd) AFC and NFC Champiobship games, won respectively by the Pittsburgh Steelers and Seattle Seahawks in one-sided blowouts.

The big news was that Fox's broadcast of the NFC game lost viewers through the evening (the game kicked-off at 6:35 P.M.), likely due to the fact it was ons-sided.

Many articles on the Internet, including this one from Medialife report that between 9 and 10 P.M. EST, the NFC game was nosed-out in the ratings by "Desperate Housewives"! As far as I know, this was the first time since one of the NFL's conference championship games has been played in prime-time that any part of the game broadcast was beaten in the ratings by any other network program.

Given that "Housewives" is supposed to appeal largely to women, it could even do damage to NBC's primetime coverage of the Winter Olympics on the three Sunday nights of the Games (February 12th, 19th, and 16th), assuming the show in fact airs first-run episodes those weeks.

On Sunday night the 19th, NBC will be carrying the short program in Ice Dancing during their prime-time Olympic coverage. Since it will be on tape, the network may now seriously wish to consider running it between 8:45 and a little after 10 P.M. ET/PT, so it would go head-to-head against "Housewives" and prevent large numbers of female viewers from switching to ABC. Ice Dancing, along with the other disciplines of Figure-Skating, attracts a large female TV viewership.

Except for the fact that ABC and ESPN are under the same ownership, and such a move could result in ESPN getting "weak" NFL games, I could even have seen ABC next year convincing the producers of "Housewives" to make a special three-part episode, with all three parts bring broadcast one after the other on Super Bowl Sunday had-to-head against the Big Game. Given that "Housewives" cut down the NFC Championship to size, and may well cut the Olympics down to size on two of the three Sundays of the Games, it might even cut the Super Bowl's ratings a bit.
 
> Except for the fact that ABC and ESPN are under the same
> ownership, and such a move could result in ESPN getting
> "weak" NFL games, I could even have seen ABC next year
> convincing the producers of "Housewives" to make a special
> three-part episode, with all three parts bring broadcast one
> after the other on Super Bowl Sunday had-to-head against the
> Big Game. Given that "Housewives" cut down the NFC
> Championship to size, and may well cut the Olympics down to
> size on two of the three Sundays of the Games, it might even
> cut the Super Bowl's ratings a bit.
>
Joe,

I just don't buy that. Bottom line was the game was a blow-out (as the early AFC game was also), and since DW was a new episode, I tuned in to DW at 8pm central. Now if it were close....diferent story. Causal fans, make up much of the Super Bowl audience and generally the AFC/NFC championship games are traditonally better football games than the SB. Maybe this bodes well for a competitive Super Bowl this year :)

And this was my first time to see both championship games HD despite the poor second halves.

Now if the the NFL will put on a SB in a cold weather city, outdoors......
 
> The ratings are in for yesterday's (January 22nd) AFC and
> NFC Champiobship games, won respectively by the Pittsburgh
> Steelers and Seattle Seahawks in one-sided blowouts.
>
> The big news was that Fox's broadcast of the NFC game lost
> viewers through the evening (the game kicked-off at 6:35
> P.M.), likely due to the fact it was ons-sided.

It also could have a lot to do with the fact that few people outside of their home markets give a hoot about the Seahawks and Panthers. Neither team has a national presence.
 
GenXdxerLR suggested:

> Now if the the NFL will put on a SB in a cold weather city,
> outdoors......

Now you're talking!

I'd love to see a Super Bowl played outdoors in Green Bay, Chicago, or especially in Cleveland or Buffalo since the two latter cities sometimes get big lake-effect snowstorms during the Winter.

I'd love to see a Super Bowl played outdoors in a snowstorm! Probably would set an all-time viewing record as millions would want to see how well the two teams would play under such adverse conditions. I really enjoy watching pro football games played in snowstorms!
 
> Given that "Housewives" is supposed to appeal largely to
> women, it could even do damage to NBC's primetime coverage
> of the Winter Olympics on the three Sunday nights of the
> Games (February 12th, 19th, and 16th), assuming the show in
> fact airs first-run episodes those weeks.

February is Sweeps month. You can count on ABC airing first-run episodes of "DH."

> On Sunday night the 19th, NBC will be carrying the short
> program in Ice Dancing during their prime-time Olympic
> coverage. Since it will be on tape, the network may now
> seriously wish to consider running it between 8:45 and a
> little after 10 P.M. ET/PT, so it would go head-to-head
> against "Housewives" and prevent large numbers of female
> viewers from switching to ABC. Ice Dancing, along with the
> other disciplines of Figure-Skating, attracts a large
> female TV viewership.

It doesn't matter. Unless there is a major event where the USA is a major contender for gold during this particular ceremony, "DH" will clean NBC's clock on Sunday, and not only with DH, but "Grey's Anatomy".

> Except for the fact that ABC and ESPN are under the same
> ownership, and such a move could result in ESPN getting
> "weak" NFL games, I could even have seen ABC next year
> convincing the producers of "Housewives" to make a special
> three-part episode, with all three parts bring broadcast one
> after the other on Super Bowl Sunday had-to-head against the
> Big Game. Given that "Housewives" cut down the NFC
> Championship to size, and may well cut the Olympics down to
> size on two of the three Sundays of the Games, it might even
> cut the Super Bowl's ratings a bit.

It's not a secret that networks that don't have the Super Bowl that year schedule re-broadcasts and not first-run episodes. If I was an advertiser on "DH", I would be pissed if ABC scheduled a first-run episode opposite the Super Bowl.
 
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