This was not Disney's fault. They pleaded to move the games to Saturday, but the college football overlords insisted that everyone would change their plans. Add to that they're continued deference to the bowl games themselves (especially the Rose Bowl who will not move from their 2:00 PM January 1 kick), and you've got this.
Dan Wetzel nails this: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/awful-cfp-semifinal-ratings-show-executives-there-is-a-limit-to-greed-001910612-ncaaf.html On Sat, Jan 2, 2016, 19:05 Bob Jersey <[email protected]> wrote: > > And a slew of embarrassment around Bristol... the semifinals in the > championship bracket ended up on New Year's Eve, and suffered accordingly > (both south of 20mil viewers/10 rating overall) despite plenty of > trans-Disney promotion... heads of the involved conferences can always > agree to tweak things for coming years, but can't move the semis too close > to the agreed final game date (generally the second Monday of January)... > > USA TODAY, f'rinstance > <http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2016/01/01/tv-ratings-for-college-football-playoff-down-36-percent/78178798/> > (link) > > B > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
