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The least viewed MLS Championship ever
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Saturday’s live broadcast of the 2013 MLS Cup on ESPN had an average viewing audience of 505,000, which is the least-viewed MLS Cup ever on English-language television. The previous record low was the 748,000 viewers who watched the 2010 MLS Cup between Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas. That game had a 0.44 TV rating, but the viewing audience was greater than the 2013 MLS Cup due to the 2010 game being shown at night instead of the 4pm ET broadcast between Sporting KC-Real Salt Lake. The 2012 MLS Cup between between LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo had a 0.7 TV rating and was viewed by an average of 797,000 people. The 2013 MLS Cup viewership was down 44% from 2012. The disappointing 505,000 viewing audience figure for the Sporting Kansas City against Real Salt Lake game follows the 29% decline in regular season MLS TV ratings on ESPN compared to last year, as well as a 8% decline on NBCSN. The 505,000 number is the same as the viewing audience for a repeat of Everybody Loves Raymond, which was shown on TBS at the same time as the second half of the 2013 MLS Cup. In contrast, 514,000 viewers watched MLS Cup 2013 on UniMas. In comparison to Premier League matches, the 505,000 people who watched MLS Cup 2013 was fewer than the 507,000 who watched Chelsea-Southampton on Sunday, December 1 at 11am ET on NBCSN but slightly greater than the 499,000 viewers who watched Arsenal versus Everton (played on Sunday at 11am ET on NBCSN). Read: Why Major League Soccer Has Bigger Issues Than Just Poor TV Ratings TV ratings for MLS’s premier game, MLS Cup, from 1996 to 2013 are: 0.5 2013: *Sporting Kansas City-Real Salt Lake (ESPN) 0.7 2012: Los Angeles-Houston (ESPN) 0.8 2011: Los Angeles-Houston (ESPN) 0.4 2010: Colorado-FC Dallas (ESPN) 0.8 2009: Real Salt Lake-Los Angeles (ESPN) 0.6 2008: Columbus-New York (ABC) 0.8 2007: Houston-New England (ABC) 0.8 2006: Houston-New England (ABC) 0.8 2005: Los Angeles-New England (ABC) 0.8 2004: D.C. United-Kansas City (ABC) 0.6 2003: San Jose-Chicago (ABC) 0.8 2002: Los Angeles-New England (ABC) 1.0 2001: San Jose-Los Angeles (ABC) 0.7 2000: Kansas City-Chicago (ABC) 0.7 1999: D.C. United-Los Angeles (ABC) 1.0 1998: Chicago-D.C. United (ABC) 1.4 1997: D.C. United-Colorado (ABC) 1.4 1996: D.C. United-Los Angeles (ABC) Read more at http://worldsoccertalk.com/2013/12/1...ebkM75kppwd.99 |
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12-10-2013, 08:09 PM | #76 |
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It probably was a bad decision to have the championship that weekend. There is one thing that the ratings does show. That is that if there is almost any other sport on soccer will be the last choice by the large majority of people.
It is pretty sad when a "professional" sport cannot get more viewers than college football.
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People try to say Soccer and Nascar are growing. I call bullshit on all of it. There's only a handful of pro/college sports that people care about, and Soccer isn't one of them.
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12-10-2013, 08:32 PM | #80 |
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There sure is a lot of not caring about soccer going on in this thread.
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12-10-2013, 08:34 PM | #81 |
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So who won?
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12-10-2013, 08:49 PM | #83 |
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The sports betting and fantasy angles are interesting ones...never thought much about it.
Having said all that anyone who has been reading my posts when these discussions come up already know that TV ratings are absolutely the last piece to the puzzle that MLS has not figured out. Every other metric is going well...it is a very healthy expanding league but the ratings are not there. Next year it will be interesting to see what comes from a more consistent slot on what I think will be Friday nights. Never needed to be the league to be the most popular on TV. NFL is much much better at being made to be vehicle for TV revenue where with soccer you get two 45 min runs of uninterrupted sports. |
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The idea that the stadium is being filled with hipsters is wrong. this of course after being wrong about a whole number of characterizations you had to move on after obviously not understanding what you were speaking of. It is cool though. On the internet you get to talk and talk no matter how little you understand something. |
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There are Kansas City baseball fans who love the Yankees. No worries.
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I think it was the only MLS Cup I've ever watched. And I only watched the penalty shootout, but that was fun.
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Also Saturday in Westport there wasn't anyone partying in the streets or even the bars. Most were watching the Mizzou game. You are absolutely wrong about it not being hipsters. It mostly is and its spearheaded by people like 96.5 the buzz and dumbasses like lazlo. All of those people have hipster followers. |
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