Jan 12, 2009
I see that not everyone has become disillusioned with the college football national championship like I am. Sports Business Daily (subscription required) reports that the ratings are up from last year, and rivaled that of last years American Idol finale,
Thursday night’s Florida-Oklahoma FedEx BCS National Championship Game earned a 17.0/27 overnight Nielsen rating on Fox, up 9.0% from a 15.6/23 for last year’s LSU-Ohio State matchup, which aired on a Monday night. The 17.0/27 marks Fox’ highest-rated primetime program this season and highest since last season’s “American Idol” finale, which earned a 17.5/27. Fox for the game earned a 16.1/25 in primetime, tops among all nets.
What else happened during the National Championship? horrible Fox TV personalities controlled the airwaves (Barry Switzer, Thom Brennaman, I’m talking to you),
Announcer Thom Brennaman, who was paired with Charles Davis on the broadcast, had a “sloppy night with numerous mistakes,” and “clearly had trouble following the action on the field.” Brennaman and the Fox crew went “overboard in gushing about how great a man” Florida QB Tim Tebow is off the field. Brennaman’s comments would have been “more fitting on a feature story than a game broadcast.” Also, Fox studio analyst Barry Switzer, a former OU coach, “clearly had trouble being objective” on Thursday night’s telecast, “referring to the Sooners as ‘we’ and ‘us’”
Personally? I watched part of the first half. Not to take the “holier-than-thou” road, but without a playoff, watching that championship game would have been nothing more than watching a good regular season game…so I found something else to do.
SportsBusinessDaily: Fox earns 17.0 overnight for BCS national championship game
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ALL ..The NFL set this schedule in april iculnding the 4:15 games for the first 10 weeks of the season. They had no idea what teams records would be.Startiong week 11 the NBC game can be flexed, The networks can change games to 4:15 for their doubleheader games. the only games that are designated with a late start are the game hosted on the west coast and The Jets/Giants game if both play on sunday will play in opposite time slots (a couple of weeks late the jets game is at 4:15 against Miami and Pittsburgh)there have been a few games the networks haver already decided to protect by shifting the start time to 4:15pmsome of these games are:week 11: indy @ new england (CBS)week 12: none declared yet (FOX)week 13: Dallas @ indy (FOX)week 14: none decided yet (CBS)week 15: none decided jet (CBS)week 16: none decided yet (FOX)week 17: none decided yet (CBS & FOX) Based on the schedule only week 16 as of now looks like a game would be flexed. the rest of the games should be safe games unless you happen to have an unexpected game of 2 surprise 8-3 teams.