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Possible World Series-CMA Awards conflict on Nov. 2

mvcg66b3r

mvcg66b3r

If the World Series goes all the way, Game 7 in Cleveland on FOX would go up against the 50th CMA Awards on ABC.
 
...and game seven of Cubs-Indians will clean the CMAs clock
 
I don't want Cleveland to get a second national championship. Let the Cubs have their win. The curse needs to end. Cleveland can do it next year. Then again, we thought the Panthers could also return.
 
vchimpanzee said:
I don't want Cleveland to get a second national championship. Let the Cubs have their win. The curse needs to end. Cleveland can do it next year. Then again, we thought the Panthers could also return.
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I am of the opposite opinion.
The Curse of the Goat is the biggest interesting mystique of the Cubbies.
That and Chicago fans publically crying when the Cubbies crush their dreams once again.

Which will happen in 5 games.
 
There's no conflict here. This is was way too easy for me to decide.

The World Series, bar none. Screw the awards show. I don't watch any awards show anyways.
 
I'm hoping it's over early and the Cubs have won it because I forgot to make sure "Lethal Weapon" wouldn't get deleted from the TiVo that's hooked up to an antenna. I recorded it there because the main one hooked up to cable is too close to full. Still, shows don't get deleted from that newest one without being manually deleted or being deleted when space is needed. The other one hooked up to cable IS full. The logical episode to repeat that night is the most recent one since I think they've repeated the others. Or does Fox have other plans just in case?
 
I checked the local TV listings. A new episode of "Lethal Weapon" is scheduled. So if the series goes 7 games, I have to manually make sure the episode records. Actually, I guess I would get the updated listings and it would know that episode didn't air as scheduled. It seems like a risky strategy.

As for the other episode, I found it in the trash-and told it not to delete until Sunday. It never occurred to me that episodes I didn't delete manually would be there, but I'm having so many problems with this particular TiVo that there was nothing to record in its place.
 
vchimpanzee said:
Considering what passes for country music these days, that's a good thing.
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At this point in country music history, the demographics of country music fans are probably far younger than those of baseball fans. The Series would beat the CMAs in raw number of viewers, but the CMAs might do better in 18-49 overall and would certainly win with 18-49 women. Not a disaster for NBC at all.
 
Why Tonight’s 50th Annual CMA Awards Will Be the Lowest-Rated Ever

Wednesday evening is a time for celebrating country music on ABC. But come Thursday morning — thanks to one of America’s favorite other pastimes — the network may well be mourning its CMA Awards TV ratings.

Last year, the CMA Awards on ABC landed a 3.8 rating/12 share in the advertiser-coveted 18-49 demographic, with an average of 13.62 million total viewers between 8 p.m. and 11 o’clock — the primetime hours.

While those are big numbers at first blush, the special was down 16 percent from 2014’s version, and tied the show’s lowest demo rating to-date (which was initially set in 2012). The 2015 CMA Awards were also down 16 percent among overall viewers (versus 16.25 million), hitting a new all-time low there. Don’t expect that trend to reverse-course this year.

Last year, the 49th CMAs were dominated in the demo by Fox’s “Empire.” This year the news (and outlook) is far bleaker — the awards show is going up against a rare World Series Game 7. It’s curtains for the Nashville party.

To make matters even more negative for Channing Dungey & Co., this is a Fall Classic between two teams that haven’t won a ring since at least 1948, citing the case of tonight’s hometown Cleveland Indians. It’s been far longer for the Chicago Cubs, who haven’t taken home a World Series trophy since 1908. So, yeah, fans of these two teams aren’t missing this one live, and certainly not for some country music back-pat.

Games 1 through 6 have flattened everything they’ve faced so far, including NBC’s uber-powerful “Sunday Night Football” this week — and that one was an overtime contest between bitter divisional rivals the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys, who were jockeying for first-place position. Expect that trend to continue.

NBC wised-up by midweek. On Wednesday afternoon, the peacock-mascoted network announced it was pulling original episodes from tonight’s prime, conceding to Fox Sports’ big lottery ticket cash-in. CBS is sticking with two new episodes and one repeat, TheWrap has confirmed, while CW is going to let “Arrow” and “Frequency” originals fly. Good luck, you guys.

The CMA Awards had better hope Beyonce shows up, as has been reported according to anonymous sources. The 2015 version had Justin Timberlake (pictured above), and the only thing he helped was potentially slowing the bleeding. She’s a bigger name and draw, but if Michael Jackson himself moonwalked on stage, sports fans would still stay locked on to the Kyle Hendricks-Corey Kluber pitching matchup.

Meanwhile, for World Series host Fox, that broadcast network needs about a 22.5 Nielsen rating for Game 7 to be its most-watched baseball game ever — and they’ve got a real shot at that. Worst-case scenario, tonight will at least be the most-watched in 15 years.
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http://www.thewrap.com/cma-awards-50th-annual-world-series-abc-tv-ratings/
 
I told you that the World Series would be better to watch than the stupid CMA awards. Sports over Awards shows any day and besides, award shows are dying. Put sports over award shows any day and I promise you sports will win every time. The proof was in the picture yesterday.
 
Here's how ABC is positioning it:


With its broadcast of “The 50th Annual CMA Awards” up against an historic World Series Game 7 on Fox (TV’s top telecast since the Super Bowl), ABC was the dominant entertainment network on Wednesday in Total Viewers (12.6 million) and Adults 18-49 (2.9/8). During prime, ABC led its nearest entertainment competition (CBS = 5.2 million and 1.0/3) by triple digits in Total Viewers (+142%) and Adults 18-49 (+190%).
“The 50th Annual CMA Awards” stood as the definitive No. 1 non-sports program on night with viewers and young adults. The show retained an impressive 93% of its year-ago Total Viewer count (12.6 million vs. 13.6 million).
•In viewers and young adults, ABC scored Wednesday season highs and its best entertainment results on the night in 1 year - since 11/4/15.
•Up against the game, “The 50th Annual CMA Awards” is projected to deliver its biggest-ever lifts in TV Playback. “The 50th Annual CMA Awards” was already the top gainer among major award shows over the last year in Live + 3 Day Adults 18-49, on both percentage increase and absolute ratings growth. The only major awards show to deliver double-digit growth from Live + Same Day to Live + 3 Day in Adults 18-49, last year’s “CMA Awards” (+13%/+0.5 rating) outpaced the most recent lifts for the “Oscars” (+3%/+0.3 rating), “Grammys” (+5%/+0.4 rating), “Golden Globes” (+4%/+0.2 rating) and “AMAs” (+9%/+0.3 rating).
 
I finally got around to watching the first half of the awards show. It will take me longer than I expected, because the first performance was great. Now THAT's country music. And Garth and Trisha were too, which is ironic since I can remember when both were considered crossover. Even "My Church" was sort of good but only because of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which really shouldn't have been in a COUNTRY music show. I was going to say the clips of nominated music sounded good but when I heard more of some of the songs, they didn't sound so good.

Carrie CAN sing, but she rarely chooses to sing the good stuff. She and Brad have been good hosts so far. And no antenna problems!

If I have time to watch anything, I need to focus on the machine that I use the most.
 
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