The Basketball Hall of Fame covers all aspects of the game, not just the NBA. It covers college and all pro leagues, male & female, foeign & domestic. You may be partially right about Yao, but his total career earned him a place in the Hall, IMHO.
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NBA Finals Opener Does Record 13.1 Rating on ABC
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The Basketball Hall of Fame covers all aspects of the game, not just the NBA. It covers college and all pro leagues, male & female, foeign & domestic. You may be partially right about Yao, but his total career earned him a place in the Hall, IMHO.
Update the Game 7 ratings now out.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...me-7-highest-rated-nba-telecast-abc/86135610/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...me-7-highest-rated-nba-telecast-abc/86135610/
Indeed, this was of those sporting events that attracted non-fans. How often do we get to see a game 7 in the NBA with two of the most interesting players of all time? Great TV, great drama, great ratings. Congrats to ABC for continueing their agreement for this display. Someone at Disney knew what they were doing.
I find that hard to swallow. Surely the team is just as popular on both sides of the bay. This isn't an A's/Giants or Raiders/49ers situation; the NBA has only one team in the market. I doubt ratings in the SF market would be any different if the team played in San Francisco, or if it were called the Oakland Warriors, San Francisco Warriors or even (a nod to Roller Derby here) the Bay Area Warriors.
Besides, the NBA has done a fantastic job of marketing its star players as sports heroes you can follow and root for (or root against just as passionately) regardless of the uniform they wear. You could put James in Milwaukee and Curry in Salt Lake City and the final would still do huge national numbers. The NFL is also pretty good at this, which is remarkable since you never see the faces of its players during games. (There's also the gambling/fantasy hook, which draws millions of eyeballs to otherwise who-cares matchups.) Baseball has lagged horribly in this regard for years and seems to have no idea how to get any but its nerdiest fans to care about players on any team but their own.
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Yes and the Warriors have declared San Francisco a bargaining chip city to put a new Warriors stadium near AT&t park. That's been in local political debates here since 2015 when they won the Finals.
Note Solano county is one of a few counties that's actually split into two Tv, radio and NBA territories. For example Vallejo and Benicia are listed as Bay Area TV, Radio and Warriors territory under the Solano W. But Solano-e covers Vacaville and Dixon and they are in Sacramento media territory and Sacramento kings territory.
Cleveland's DMA is the 18th largest nationally, about the same size as Denver and a bit smaller than Miami. Total population is 3.3 million per Nielsen's 2015 data.
but Cleveland is losing population (and $)
No, you don't understand the Bay Area market. The Golden State Warriors are the Bay area team pure and simple. Have been for many decades.
They were the San Francisco Warriors from 1962 (when they arrived from Philly, with Wilt Chamberlain) until 1971, when they moved from the Cow Palace to Oakland.
But right now -- which is what we're talking about -- it's a top 20 market, which makes it major in my book, and certainly in comparison to the NBA's true small markets like Milwaukee, Salt Lake City and Memphis.
It doesn't make it major in the eyes of the NBA, who markets its product almost strictly to the young, affluent, and urban -- "urban" meaning the Top 10 media markets, plus Detroit (which used to be a Top 10). Been that way since the day David Stern became Commissioner of the league. They throw more bones to mid-markets and a few smaller markets (SLC, San Antonio, OKC) now that he's gone, but as far as the networks and advertisers are concerned, pro basketball is "the big city game."
It's no shock whatsoever that the Knicks and Lakers still get lots of games on national TV, despite the fact that both teams absolutely stink right now. They get viewers, and it's not just because people like to hear Charles Barkley complain about how bad they are.
http://abc7news.com/sports/golden-state-warriors-delay-opening-of-sf-arena-to-2019/1160981/
As of 2016 the Warriors moving to San Francisco is under political debate. And that stadium for the Warriors is supposed to be near the UCSF Mission Bay campus and AT&T park. So far the city council, Mayors and Board of Supervisors in San Francisco and Oakland have been debating how to keep or grab the warriors as their bargaining chip city.
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