I am not referring to fans choosing between which of two or more games to watch, but fans who are choosing whether to watch a game at all or do something else and just get score updates. I think there is a significant number of these each week, though, as I say, not enough to justify that salary.
On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 3:18 AM JW <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAKSNnOFVzMC%2BicXMcg8xagqN2HdiYfpAqz8Q3SyrKVSj0656iA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile -- 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/CAKGtkYKo0RMB1hbRMrANAyXepHk7egV31n8QJEZs3%2BbgVVPu4w%40mail.gmail.com.
