Dr. H Lecter
09-18-2007, 04:30 PM
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007709180449
What a moron. He seems to believe that a game is played for TV ratings rather than to WIN THE GAME. We did that Bozich, obvioulsy to your dismay. I know it ruined the article that you'd already written before the game. You know, the one that blasted MB and RB for moving the game and we lost anyway.
Well guess what? We would have beaten them more badly in week one. But the excuses, "new coach, new this, new that, we'll imrove every week blah blah blah".....those arguments went flying out the window. We beat their best with our best and gave them a couple weeks to iron out the blips.
But a gremlin lives inside my keyboard. He will not allow me to write 615 words about Brooks without sprinkling in some disagreeable ones.
Here goes: UK's stirring 40-34 victory over Louisville in Commonwealth Stadium was the most entertaining game that too few people saw this past Saturday.
Game missed the spotlight
Why? Because the game was moved to the season's third week, at Brooks' request, and shipped to ESPN Classic, which hyped it by airing body-building shows all day.
The national overnight Nielsen ratings are in: The game generated a rating of .4. Mark Mandel of ESPN said that translates to about 371,000 households.
The audience for Arkansas against Alabama, which overlapped with UK-U of L for much of the night on big daddy ESPN, was six times as large. Southern California and Nebraska pulled a 5.0 on ABC.
Last season, when the UK-U of L game was played on Sunday, Sept. 3, at 8 p.m. and televised on ESPN, it generated a 1.8 rating.
Bozich, we don't really care about a .4 or the fact that SC vs. Nebraska pulled a 5.0 on ABC. Its a very clever literary tactic but never were we scheduled to play the game on ABC.
So comparing a .4 to a 1.8 is the only comparison that is worth discussing. How many households do you think will see the game now since its been aired on ESPN Classic about 3 more times. That closes the viewing gap a bit doesn't it? You may want to write a follow-up to correct that little oversight.
I really think what pisses you off is that RB and MB outsmarted YOU and Jurich...and that simply is not what your media template was supposed to yield after the game was played.
You know...its no wonder that your READERSHIP numbers have fallen like Little Brother in the national polls. Maybe you should concentrate on that Bozich.
What a moron. He seems to believe that a game is played for TV ratings rather than to WIN THE GAME. We did that Bozich, obvioulsy to your dismay. I know it ruined the article that you'd already written before the game. You know, the one that blasted MB and RB for moving the game and we lost anyway.
Well guess what? We would have beaten them more badly in week one. But the excuses, "new coach, new this, new that, we'll imrove every week blah blah blah".....those arguments went flying out the window. We beat their best with our best and gave them a couple weeks to iron out the blips.
But a gremlin lives inside my keyboard. He will not allow me to write 615 words about Brooks without sprinkling in some disagreeable ones.
Here goes: UK's stirring 40-34 victory over Louisville in Commonwealth Stadium was the most entertaining game that too few people saw this past Saturday.
Game missed the spotlight
Why? Because the game was moved to the season's third week, at Brooks' request, and shipped to ESPN Classic, which hyped it by airing body-building shows all day.
The national overnight Nielsen ratings are in: The game generated a rating of .4. Mark Mandel of ESPN said that translates to about 371,000 households.
The audience for Arkansas against Alabama, which overlapped with UK-U of L for much of the night on big daddy ESPN, was six times as large. Southern California and Nebraska pulled a 5.0 on ABC.
Last season, when the UK-U of L game was played on Sunday, Sept. 3, at 8 p.m. and televised on ESPN, it generated a 1.8 rating.
Bozich, we don't really care about a .4 or the fact that SC vs. Nebraska pulled a 5.0 on ABC. Its a very clever literary tactic but never were we scheduled to play the game on ABC.
So comparing a .4 to a 1.8 is the only comparison that is worth discussing. How many households do you think will see the game now since its been aired on ESPN Classic about 3 more times. That closes the viewing gap a bit doesn't it? You may want to write a follow-up to correct that little oversight.
I really think what pisses you off is that RB and MB outsmarted YOU and Jurich...and that simply is not what your media template was supposed to yield after the game was played.
You know...its no wonder that your READERSHIP numbers have fallen like Little Brother in the national polls. Maybe you should concentrate on that Bozich.
