MLB All Star Game Ratings up but…
4554 sats \ 20 comments \ @grayruby 18 Jul Stacker_Sports
From the Boston Globe:
“All-Star Game ratings up 6 percent, but still second-lowest in event's history. Paul Skenes, Shohei Ohtani, Jarren Duran, and the rest of this year's All-Stars drew 7,443,000 viewers on Fox, up 6 percent from the 2023 game but the second lowest for the event.”
Not great but an uptick and still better than ratings for NBA, NFL, NHL all star competitions.
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52 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 18 Jul
As the league progresses people will start taking interest.
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61 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE 18 Jul
+7 million isn't a bad number! But if I look at it with my cricketing eyes, it's not even 1% to India's World Cup game against Australia in 2023!
The final between India and Australia at the Narendra Modi Stadium, the biggest cricket stadium in the world, became the most watched ICC match ever. There were 87.6 billion live viewing minutes globally.
http://icc-cricket.com/news/biggest-cricket-world-cup-ever-smashes-broadcast-and-digital-records
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66 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
It’s an exhibition game. It isn’t going to compete with a World Cup final game.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 18 Jul
I agree. May be @IamSINGLE don't know about the exibition game! Nobody understands Baseball here. Also ant game of Cricket involving India attracts many billions of viewers, no matter if it was a big game or not. Only one game that competes with Cricket in viewership is Football.
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118 sats \ 5 replies \ @Cje95 18 Jul
I am just saying those uniforms have to go... awful would be a compliment to how bad they were
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 18 Jul
Yeah, they were terrible.
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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 18 Jul
I honestly didnt even get the color scheme... where they a sorry attempt at a Negro League attempt? I just cant figure out what league or teams ever used jerseys like that
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
I think they were tying to go with a historic look with more modern colours.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
Still better than last years. But yeah not great. I would like them to go back to wearing their home team’s uniform.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 18 Jul
Why we ever left that is truly mindblowing... I follow baseball pretty freakin thoroughly but sometimes I have absolutely no idea who someone plays for and there is an easy fix to that.... God forbid MLB does it but fingers crossed after what Manfred said yesterday
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63 sats \ 2 replies \ @ContraMundum 18 Jul
The game is played so differently now. Guys have up playing to win in those games about a decade ago! Sad.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
Yeah. Do you think they should offer a big incentive to win?
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @ContraMundum 18 Jul
I mean 3/4 of these guys have already made a ton of money. I think if there were a different incentive which I can’t think of at the moment would motivate them to put on a show.
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20 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jul
I'm pretty sure that's better than the NBA Finals ratings. I guess it's the only major sport where the stars actually play at a high level in the all star game.
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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
11.3M was avg viewing for NBA finals
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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jul
Is that because they changed the calculation? I could have sworn it was around 4M a few years ago.
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42 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
Not sure. 2020 had a 4 rating which was 7.45M avg viewers. That was the lowest ever.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jul
Maybe the problem is just me not understanding ratings numbers.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 18 Jul
“Nielsen calculates the percentage of their panel that watched each given program and reports that data as a number; if a program gets a reported 9.6 Nielsen rating, that means 9.6% of the panel watched that program; thus Nielsen estimates that 9.6% of American households watched the program.”
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63 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 18 Jul
That's pretty straightforward. Here's what I think I was actually thinking of, though:
https://m.stacker.news/40271
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