Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Steve Timko
World Series averaged 9.11 million viewers, making it the least-watched Fall Classic in TV history https://apnews.com/article/world-series-rangers-diamondbacks-fox-f0eb9837a3d8bfa529fed811a6417057 World Series averaged 9.11 million viewers, making it the least-watched Fall Classic in TV history

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Tom Wolper
My hot take is that Taylor Swift needed to date one of the players to bring attention to the series. I watched the games and enjoyed them. The problem this year is an utter lack of star power. MLB has few enough players who are well known outside of their home markets and none of them were in the

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Brad Beam
A beneficial side effect to the early exit of the World Series for dear alma mater:Fox has announced the promotion of Saturday night’s West Virginia-BYU conference(!?) game from FS1 to the main network.Sent from my iPhoneOn Nov 2, 2023, at 10:32, Diner wrote:Last week I was listening to "Wait

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Mark Jeffries
Boobs, uh, tinkle, uh, Howard Cosell--oh sorry, wrong game. Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 9:32 AM Diner wrote: > Last week I was listening to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," and one of the > guests was comedian Zainab Johnson. During the final round (Lightning Fill >

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread Diner
Last week I was listening to "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me," and one of the guests was comedian Zainab Johnson. During the final round (Lightning Fill in the Blank), Johnson was asked to complete this sentence: "On Friday the Arizona Diamondbacks face the Texas Rangers in the first game of the 2023

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-02 Thread PGage
I am a baseball fan, and while I knew the series was going on I barely cared. I watched most of the games the morning after, FF through major segments, and perhaps most telling, was never in jeopardy of having the final score spoiled because it seemed absolutely nobody in my social media networks

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-01 Thread Stan S
Dallas versus Phoenix does not have the words “Classic Baseball Rivalry” anywhere in the title. MLB brought some of this on themselves with the “every team plays every team” schedule in 2023. -Stan On Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 11:07:53 PM UTC-4 Kevin M. wrote: > Admittedly I’m not a

Re: [TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-01 Thread Kevin M.
Admittedly I’m not a baseball fan, but I didn’t know the series was going on until a student of mine mentioned it yesterday. On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 6:21 PM Steve Timko wrote: > > https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/low-world-series-tv-ratings-201430820.html > > -- > You received this message

[TV orNotTV] Low World Series TV ratings in 2023 continue 7-year downward trend

2023-11-01 Thread Steve Timko
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