Georgia Tech TV Ratings (WK 1)

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Only 1.65M viewers tuned into the 2023 AFLAC Kickoff Game


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College Football TV Ratings

College football TV ratings for the 2024 regular season, bowls, College Football Playoff and National Championship.
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I wonder how much the degradation of sports broadcasting will help to drive fans back to stadiums to watch the games in person. The convenience of watching games broadcast is quickly being overridden by poor quality of the broadcasts. I can't tell you how many times I yelled at the TV because they were missing the actual gameplay to show an interview or promote an upcoming broadcast. It has gotten really bad.
 
stinger78 said:
Still, we were ahead of ND, Mich St, Auburn, OU, UCLA, TAMU, Iowa, and BYU. I saw that ESPN viewership was down 44% from last year. Thats bad.
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Are you also counting the fact that CBS, Fox also had 12, 3:30, 7:30 pm games into that? Add in NBC having a 7 pm game. Viewership was spread across the networks. How it’s going to be for good with the B1G going to Fox, CBS, NBC, B12 on Fox, ESPN, ACC / SEC on ESPN family of networks.
 
ThomsonJacket said:
Friday night broadcast during High School football season isn't a good time slot.
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You think this is going to be any different starting in 2024? B1G will start more intriguing games on Friday nights, along with Wednesday night soon. The so called “it just means more” conference will also have Friday night games. It won’t be Alabama-Tennessee, etc, but it will be Mizzou-South Carolina, MSU-UK, etc. ESPN is about to call the shots going forward.

The Friday night High School numbers have a very small impact on TV ratings. Most people don’t attend unless they have a kid on the team, etc.

From all reports there is will not be coaches going to Friday nights games anymore. The NCAA of all people is trying to cut down on coaches working 350 days a year.
 
GTWannaBee said:
I can't tell you how many times I yelled at the TV because they were missing the actual gameplay to show an interview or promote an upcoming broadcast. It has gotten really bad.
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Our game against Louisville 2-3 years ago is my high water mark of ööööty broadcasting. They had someone call in (on a ööööty connection no less) to talk about the playoff implications of the upcoming Clemson/Miami game during our game. It lasted at least 10 minutes, all while our game was just going on in the background. I was ready to fight someone.
 
USCJacket said:
The Friday night High School numbers have a very small impact on TV ratings. Most people don’t attend unless they have a kid on the team, etc.
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Typical urban/suburban opinion. Get outside of Atlanta. Go to Thomasville, Valdosta, Moultrie, Cairo, Pelham, Cordele on a Friday night. Rich-poor, black-white, the entire town is there. There is nothing like it. And yes, I know those tv numbers don't match the city's, but not everyone in the city pays attention to high school football.
 
DinnerJacket said:
Typical urban/suburban opinion. Get outside of Atlanta. Go to Thomasville, Valdosta, Moultrie, Cairo, Pelham, Cordele on a Friday night. Rich-poor, black-white, the entire town is there. There is nothing like it. And yes, I know those tv numbers don't match the city's, but not everyone in the city pays attention to high school football.
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I understand what you’re saying. But even those counties you’re referring to in south Georgia would have high TV viewership if FSU, Alabama, Auburn, UF, etc were playing on Friday night. If you haven’t noticed, ESPN has drastically scaled back their live HS game broadcasts. The ratings were not covering the costs.

Starting in 2024 big time CFB will be played going forward on Wednesday-Friday nights regardless of ACC, B1G, B12, SEC. ESPN, Fox, CBS, NBC now control when games are played, not the conferences. So the it just means moar” conference will no longer be excluded from Thursday & Friday night games. The overrated SEC commissioner Greg Sankey cannot control that anymore. He wanted the huge TV deal from ESPN and got it.

All I was saying is, the lower TV ratings for Thursday & Friday night games have more to do with who’s playing vs local HS football games being played.
 
stinger78 said:
Still, we were ahead of ND, Mich St, Auburn, OU, UCLA, TAMU, Iowa, and BYU. I saw that ESPN viewership was down 44% from last year. Thats bad.
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Well what did ESPN expect when they cut their feed to a major cable service provider?
 
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