One of the early and easiest knocks on the Big East has been its ratings on Fox Sports 1. I've contended that it is primarily due to the infancy of the network, and the dearth of quality lead in programming to our games. Audiences need time to regularly adopt viewing the network, and that will take time.
Just take a look at the ratings for Monday night. FS1 has ZERO quality primetime programming.
7-8PM Off Season Baseball - 43k viewers
8PM - Joe Maddon interview 33k viewers
8:30PM - Katie Nolan - 27k Garbagetime viewers
9PM - Grand Prix of Qatar - 56k viewers
From a Fox Sports perspective, Big East basketball drew 5x the numbers on a regular weeknight. BE championship drew over 400k on the network. Meanwhile, the Golf Channel is wiping up FS1 on a Monday night.
This is NOT a Big East issue. This is a Fox issue.
http://sportstvratings.com/womens-hoops-tennessee-maryland-dayton-connecticut-pardon-the-interruption-lead-cable-sports-nets-for-monday-march-30-2015/1949/
Just take a look at the ratings for Monday night. FS1 has ZERO quality primetime programming.
7-8PM Off Season Baseball - 43k viewers
8PM - Joe Maddon interview 33k viewers
8:30PM - Katie Nolan - 27k Garbagetime viewers
9PM - Grand Prix of Qatar - 56k viewers
From a Fox Sports perspective, Big East basketball drew 5x the numbers on a regular weeknight. BE championship drew over 400k on the network. Meanwhile, the Golf Channel is wiping up FS1 on a Monday night.
This is NOT a Big East issue. This is a Fox issue.
http://sportstvratings.com/womens-hoops-tennessee-maryland-dayton-connecticut-pardon-the-interruption-lead-cable-sports-nets-for-monday-march-30-2015/1949/
