That they've had an audience was never in doubt (see: First Take). What is dramatic is that Bayless actually brought people to America's Favorite Scratch Sports Cable Network. Given the Coward/Whitlock "All Takes Matter"* gabfest continues to do nothing, that Skip/Shannon did something is quite amazing.
* I cannot remember for the life of me what the actual name of this show is, but that's what Deadspin always calls it, and that's stuck with me. On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Former ESPN exec (and NBC News for a brief moment) Jamie Horowitz's > attempt to raise the visibility of Fox's struggling sports channel seems to > be working--since "Skip and Shannon Undisputed," his carbon of the > Worldwide Leader's "First Take" with Skip Bayless moving over as the Idiot > White Guy and Shannon Sharpe replacing Stephen A. Smith as the Pissed Off > Black Guy (and Joy Taylor as the Hot Babe Moderator) started a month ago, > FS1's ratings for the morning show are up in its time slot 358 percent (733 > percent in the demo), and giving a rainbow effect to its lead-out, a talk > show fronted by Colin Cowherd, another ex-ESPNer: > > http://www.thewrap.com/skip-bayless-undisputed-fox-sports- > 1-herd-shannon-sharpe-tv-ratings/ > > I guess it means that as loathsome as these sports debate shows are, they > do have an audience and that there are young males home in the mornings who > would rather watch Bayless and Sharpe yelling at each other instead of > Kelly Ripa or Kathie Lee and Hoda (or even Drew Carey and Wayne > Brady)--until Springer comes on. > > > -- > -- > 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. > -- -- 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.
