01-28-2019, 11:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-28-2019, 11:17 AM by ColoradoTree.)
(01-25-2019, 02:43 PM)82lsju Wrote:(01-25-2019, 02:33 PM)ColoradoTree Wrote: Viewing those numbers through a different lens, the Pac-12 game does better on FOX than it does on ESPN. I wonder how the game would perform on FOX on a Saturday.
but 2 of the 3 games on ESPN were on Saturday, even for ESPN Friday does much better than Saturday, no obvious reason apparent to me to think that Fox would be different
My reason for mentioning it is that there are approximately 120 million households with a working TV (per Nielsen), and only about 91 million households that get ESPN. That delta matters, and we can see in your delta that ESPN on Friday is significantly better than ESPN on Saturday. It stands to reason that a game with wider coverage on Saturday (Fox) might do better than a game with slightly narrower coverage (ESPN). It still might not measure up to Friday, of course, and it probably wouldn't, but we have FOX/Friday, ESPN/Friday, and ESPN/Saturday, so FOX/Saturday is the data point we're missing. I was just saying I'd be curious to see what that data point would look like. My guess would be a FOX game on Saturday would do better than ESPN on Saturday, but not quite as well as FOX on Friday, but that's why they play the games, as they say.