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Goodbye TdF on OLN
No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo
"Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/sp...sandomir.html? NY Times, registration required. That's a steep drop in ratings. Steep enough that OLN will probably drop cycling and focus on bulls and fish fulltime. |
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Goodbye TdF on OLN
No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo
"Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." I suspect you'll see viewership trending upward from the first time-trial (tomorrow morning, 7/8)-on. Let's face it, aside from the last 30 seconds, things haven't been terribly exciting. Let's see now, is the small breakaway going to be caught with 6km to go, or just 4? It's a foregone conclusion that they'll be caught, it's a foregone conclusion that nobody's going to get away for a dramatic stage win during the first week this year. Once things break up a bit (post time-trial), it will be a far more exciting race. For what it's worth, my customers are having a difficult time understanding why a breakaway has so much less chance of success now than it will after tomorrow. The explanation is that, while the race is very tight virtually from first to last place right now, anybody off in a break that succeeds is likely to snag the yellow jersey... and thus they won't be allowed to. After Saturday, it will be possible, even likely, that a dramatic stage victory won't result in a massive reodering of the general classification (or the awarding of the yellow jersey). --Mike Jacoubowsky Chain Reaction Bicycles www.ChainReaction.com Redwood City & Los Altos, CA USA "wimpyVO2" wrote in message oups.com... No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/sp...sandomir.html? NY Times, registration required. That's a steep drop in ratings. Steep enough that OLN will probably drop cycling and focus on bulls and fish fulltime. |
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Mike Jacoubowsky:
For what it's worth, my customers are having a difficult time understanding why a breakaway has so much less chance of success now than it will after tomorrow. The explanation is that, while the race is very tight virtually from first to last place right now, anybody off in a break that succeeds is likely to snag the yellow jersey... and thus they won't be allowed to. After Saturday, it will be possible, even likely, that a dramatic stage victory won't result in a massive reodering of the general classification (or the awarding of the yellow jersey). I don't think that even after the time trial, there will be much chance for an escape to succeed. Not until the mountains. After a mountain stage or two, some riders lose serious time, like an hour or two. Then some of those laggers can escape in a following (flat) stage and get away by up to a half hour because the peloton doesn't care. The only ones who hate that happening are the sprinters, and only if it's still a close battle. If an escape gets away by half an hour, obviously it will succeed. If the peloton cares enough about an escape, it will never let the escape get away by THAT much though. Maybe I'm in the minority here, but I see the time trial as only opening up separation of 5 minutes or less for most of the riders. If so, I don't see any escape succeeding before the mountains. Robby McEwen is having too much fun winning these sprint finishes, and he won't willingly give up the chance to take a stage win. |
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On 7 Jul 2006 22:43:26 -0700, "wimpyVO2"
wrote: No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo They manage to name drop him every 2 minutes or so though. "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." Maybe time to start cutting overhead Trautwig, Andreu , Hummer, Roll and put Ligget and Sherwin in maybe a small windowless van with a small TV which of course they can sleep in instead of those fancy hotels. |
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Goodbye TdF on OLN
Note that these ratings are higher than hockey. Suppose that says more
about hockey than cycling. "wimpyVO2" wrote in message oups.com... No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/sp...sandomir.html? NY Times, registration required. That's a steep drop in ratings. Steep enough that OLN will probably drop cycling and focus on bulls and fish fulltime. |
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Goodbye TdF on OLN
Note that these ratings are higher than hockey. Suppose that says more
about hockey than cycling. "wimpyVO2" wrote in message oups.com... No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." Does anyone realize that we're talking about rating for a live TV show that is occuring during the working hours of most Americans? Or does anyone also realize that many people don't get OLN because it is a Comcast channel? -- --- William O'Hara www.N1ey.com - Amateur Radio and Railfan Blog www.yahoogroups.com/group/illinoiscentral - premier discussion list ICRR |
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Goodbye TdF on OLN
On Sat, 08 Jul 2006 06:28:11 -0500, "William O'Hara"
wrote: Note that these ratings are higher than hockey. Suppose that says more about hockey than cycling. "wimpyVO2" wrote in message oups.com... No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." Does anyone realize that we're talking about rating for a live TV show that is occuring during the working hours of most Americans? Or does anyone also realize that many people don't get OLN because it is a Comcast channel? It is comparing YOY numbers and the same coonditions existed last year and the repeats plunged as well. |
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Goodbye TdF on OLN
wimpyVO2 wrote: No more Lance so lots of Americans aren't watching any mo "Through the first four stages, viewership of OLN's live Tour coverage has tumbled 49 percent to 207,544 people. Combined viewership of the live show and its daily repeats has plunged by 47 percent to 749,472." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/sp...sandomir.html? NY Times, registration required. That's a steep drop in ratings. Steep enough that OLN will probably drop cycling and focus on bulls and fish fulltime. I was so ****ed off by the scandals that I made a point of not watching even a little bit; but my wife was, and when I came back in the evening she wanted to watch the repeat, so while I was on my pc I was catching a bit here and there- I found the coverage to be better than previous years when there was too much fox style/nascar swooping logos and special effects which really irritate me for some reason. so, now, while I still feel a bit burnt by the peleton cheats I am beginning to take an interest in the race again. |
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