Top TV Markets for College Football

[ORD_Buckeye]

This is interesting, man. This is fucking interesting.

http://espnmediazone.com/us/press-r...ham-oklahoma-city-columbus-top-three-in-2011/

I'm a little puzzled that they don't include Cincinnati as an Ohio State market, just a juggalo market.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

It suddenly makes sense why they're kissing our asses with the All Access programming.

 

[jarv]

It also makes sense why they bashed us for years. Anything that gets Buckeye fans attention equals money for ESPN .

I remember reading an article about ESPNs ratings by city for their NFL Draft coverage. Three of the top five were cities in Ohio. Cleveland was #1, Dayton was #3 and Columbus was 4th. Ohio lives football, especially Buckeye football and ESPN knows it. Cincinnati and Toledo were also in the top ten if I recall correctly...so that's half of the top ten.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

It suddenly makes sense why they're kissing our asses with the All Access programming.

no it doesn't.

1) They've always known this. This isn't anything new to them.
2) They get more of a reaction when they talk bad about things than when they praise things.

 

[calibuck]

That is certainly great marketing poop, and shows where advertisers need to put their $ to reach their markets, and what programs to advertise on. Relate this to the Super Bowl and how many $ per minute of advertising, and it's clear why the BTN is doing so well.

Yeah, ESPiN knows this, and if you look closer at the markets, Columbus (16th largest city) would command more households reached than Birmingham and or Knoxville. That makes the larger cities much,much more valuable to the networks and advertisers. The "product" (OSU Football) is a valuable one, and one that sells advertising dollars.

Even if viewers watch ESPiN and throw bottles at the TV, they are watching. Mark [Mark May] May has a script to follow, and it's to incite OSU Nation to get angry. Yeah, we all watch, and then post on the "Stupid things [Mark May] says", which proves we watch, which, at the end of the day, is all ESPiN cares about when they are telling Proctor & Gamble, Buick, etc. how many homes their products will be seen in if they spend $X to advertise during the OSU game......

Which may be why OSU appears (and rest of the B10) more on ESPiN now that the BTN is competition. Anyone know the definition of SMSA now? Statistical Marketing Selling Area?


:gobucks3::gobucks4:

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

no it doesn't.

1) They've always known this. This isn't anything new to them.
2) They get more of a reaction when they talk bad about things than when they praise things.

They have previously done All Access shows for Alabama and Oklahoma, which covers all the big rating markets. That was what I was getting at, I just didn't elaborate.

 

[Muck]

1) They've always known this. This isn't anything new to them.
2) They get more of a reaction when they talk bad about things than when they praise things.

IMO the current situation is more about setting Meyer up as a hero to distinguish him from the previous regime. After a year or two they'll commence on the knocking him down phase of the operation.