“The Yahoo piece makes a good point about the first game being too early for a day when some people are working a full day”
No, not “some people”…*most* people. Seriously, who *doesn’t* work New Year’s Eve if it falls on a weekday? I’ve gone through my entire circle of friends, and the only ones who were off that day were three teachers. And they were only off because of the week-long holiday break between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: tvornottv@googlegroups.com [mailto:tvornottv@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Lynch Sent: Monday, January 4, 2016 11:47 AM To: tvornottv@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] SportsTV: College f-ball bowl scheduling leads to sucky ratings I saw something that unquestioningly reported that the College Football Playoffs folks wanted to stake out New Year's Eve as a holiday for watching college football in the way that the NFL has Thanksgiving and the NBA has Christmas and completely ignored the fact that they already have New Year's Day. The Yahoo piece makes a good point about the first game being too early for a day when some people are working a full day, but the thing that jumped out at me on the day itself was the scheduling of the second bowl. it started at 8:00 PM Eastern, and considering that college football games without the additional pomp, circumstance, and ad time of a bowl have been known to stretch past the four-hour mark, I feel like they were lucky to get it all in before midnight. A friend based in the Mountain Time Zone said on social media that it felt like he had to choose between a New Years Eve party and football -- the 6:00 PM kickoff is too early to start a party when you know that you're going to be there until after midnight, but the roughly 9:45 PM end time was too late to try to go somewhere else after the game. On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Joe Hass <hassgoc...@gmail.com <mailto:hassgoc...@gmail.com> > wrote: This was not Disney's fault. They pleaded to move the games to Saturday, but the college football overlords insisted that everyone would change their plans. Add to that they're continued deference to the bowl games themselves (especially the Rose Bowl who will not move from their 2:00 PM January 1 kick), and you've got this. Dan Wetzel nails this: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/awful-cfp-semifinal-ratings-show-executives-there-is-a-limit-to-greed-001910612-ncaaf.html On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, 19:05 Bob Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com <mailto:bob.in.jer...@juno.com> > wrote: And a slew of embarrassment around Bristol... the semifinals in the championship bracket ended up on New Year's Eve, and suffered accordingly (both south of 20mil viewers/10 rating overall) despite plenty of trans-Disney promotion... heads of the involved conferences can always agree to tweak things for coming years, but can't move the semis too close to the agreed final game date (generally the second Monday of January)... USA TODAY, f'rinstance <http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/01/01/tv-ratings-for-college-football-playoff-down-36-percent/78178798/> (link) B -- David J. Lynch djly...@gmail.com <mailto:djly...@gmail.com> -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
