> But there is a significant pool of potential viewers who are making week to > week and game to game decisions about what and how much to watch, and > the announcers make a difference for this group.
I seriously doubt it. As Adam said, the teams involved are a much bigger factor; it would take two equally appealing matchups for announcers to make a difference, and even then, I'm much more likely to flip between games at commercial breaks than I am to choose one. There may be Ian Eagle fans who will go out of their way to watch his games, but I'd be shocked if that's more than a negligible portion of the audience. I'll also mention that we see so much of the top announcing teams that they become overexposed. Hearing Buck and Aikman twice a week every week didn't make me more inclined to watch them. Here's a brief, but more detailed, explanation of cross-flexing: https://www.latimes.com/la-sp-ask-farmer-20141213-story.html And I'm pretty sure there's a mechanism where CBS and Fox can protect a small number of games per season from being flexed to Sunday nights, so that, say, CBS can guarantee itself one Chargers-Chiefs game. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFVzMC%2BicXMcg8xagqN2HdiYfpAqz8Q3SyrKVSj0656iA%40mail.gmail.com.
