TBS Sees Year To Year Growth In MLB Coverage
2008 ALCS coverage draws more viewers in the target demo than 2007 NLCS on the Turner owned cabler.
By John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 10/17/2008 1:21:00 PM
TBS says its viewership is way up for its coverage of Major League Baseball’s American League Championship Series (ALCS) this year vs. its baseball coverage last year, it is something of an apples-to-oranges (make that DH-to-no-DH) comparison, since last year it had the National League Championship Series (NLCS).
Through five games, TBS is averaging 2.705 million viewers 18-49, up 48%.
TBS said its coverage of Boston's amazing comeback Thursday night vs. Tampa Bay (down seven to nothing in the seventh inning to an 8-7 victory in ninth), delivered a 4.7 household rating, its best number of the series and well above its 3.9 household rating average. The rating spiked at a 5.1 between 10:55, the middle of the seventh inning when Boston began its comeback, to the end of the game.
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TBS needs to stick with what works - reruns of 6 year old sitcoms. Their baseball coverage is awful and then we got the half hour of Bloopers and Steve Harvey last night missing the first inning.
MLB - please stay with Fox and ESPN for sports.
Jason Ray - 10/19/2008 8:20:00 AM EDT -
TBS is a major joke after what happened tonight
C - 10/18/2008 9:25:00 PM EDT -
TBS won't have any year to year growth the way they have handled
technical difficulties on game 6 tonight. It was probably almost ten
minutes of the pregame show, with Dick Clark blooper show on, before
TBS even ran a crawl advising baseball audience that they were having
tehnical difficulties. Why not an announcer doing play by play on the
telephone if nothing else? Horrible thinking on their part!
Nate Custer - 10/18/2008 8:44:00 PM EDT -
i'm in tampa on verizon fios and there is no ALCS on TBS - WTF !!!!
jason dagh - 10/18/2008 8:20:00 PM EDT
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