NFL 2010 Week 10: FOX Early Game
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Minnesota @ Chicago – Kenny Albert, Daryl Johnston, Tony Siragusa [AK, HI]
Carolina @ Tampa Bay – Dick Stockton, Charles Davis, Jim Mora Jr.
Detroit @ Buffalo – Ron Pitts, John Lynch
Areas in GREY will not receive a game due to NFL rules.
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UPDATES:
Albany, Binghamton, Utica NY: MIN-CHI to DET-BUF
Augusta GA: CAR-TB to MIN-CHI
Charleston SC: CAR-TB to MIN-CHI
Kind of surprised with Augusta and Charleston switching. The Bucs are the Falcons rival.
Yeah I’m surprise Charleston switch, but it has nothing to do with the sorry Falcons. This is Carolina Panthers country.
this sucks Minnesota and Chicago will not be in the playoffs and I live in Atlanta and Falcons fans should be mad that they are not showing the Bucks game Come on man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Jason
aAdvertisers pay a station based on their ratings for the game that is on the air.
The network has slots and the local TV station has slots to sell.
The networks want to maximize the potential revenue
If they cant air the home market team then the team that draws more fans is a divisional rival or another team nearby.
Greenville, SC is REQUIRED to air all road games for Carolina (this week is a road game). The local station has NO CHOICE in this. This is dictated by the NFL and the local team declares secondary markets even if outside the 75 mile radius.
These markets are not required to air sold out home games. But then the issue becomes:
REVENUE
The local stations live off of the revenue they bring in. If they lose money people will get fired.
based on historical rating fellow division teams games draw more fans to ta game if the home team is not in that slot.
Local attachment players( raised, college) draw fans to games.
Yes b igger ratings mean more station money….but putting on the best game on WILL NOT produce the most viewers.
Most fans are just casual fans who only care about their local team, local kids, or fellow divisional teams.
Most people in the Carolinas dont give a crap about the Vikings-Bears.
Was at the MIN-CHI game and now watching the DVR of the game. Still don’t understand why DAL-NYG was called “America’s Game of the Week” when more of the country saw MIN-CHI.
@DJP. You have a point. but then again, your kinda off.
CBS are not picky unlike FOX because they get to air at least each and every team in almost every division. minnesota doesnt have a secondary market for cbs to carry.
One week, they air a miami game against an afc south foe
the following week, cbs airs indianapolis against an afc west foe like oakland
every cbs local station has a request to air a programming email to make a suggestion in what the people would rather see.
fox, on the other hand, they’re too greedy about their money
your right about one thing
“Most fans are just casual fans who only care about their local team, local kids, or fellow divisional teams”
but how does not putting on the best game that people would rather watch opposed to another crappy game that they already have on slot, not produce the most viewers? explain that.
how would you know that for a fact?
@Jason
I understand revenue mananagement, marketing, and maximizing AD revenue.
The constraints in play is what the stations are required to air.
Most fans are casual so bringing in a different teams without connect to the local team or area loses many casual fans so only the die hard NFL junkies watch these games. So ratings will be low.
You want to see what I am talking about…look to see if there is a TV columnist in the newspaper that may mention the TV ratings and see what numbers Carolina draws vs other games like dallas @ ginats.
Or go back a few weeks to the week of minnesota @ new england week of games and see the ratings in markets outside divisional foes to both teams and see how many viewers do watch.
Each rating point means $$$ for the local stations. The advertisers will pay more if they know there will be more viewers but less when less viewers. These numbers are the only numbers that drives AD revenue in the local market.
The ratings affect FOX on a smaller level for national ads but a place like Charlotte losing say half their viewers because they took a featured game instead of a local interest game will have little national ratings impact because the residual effect of Charlotte in the TV sphere may be 0.5% So an 8.1 national rating if they aired the divisional game…but if they aired the national game the FOX national rating would be an 8.05 national rating which doesnt affect add revenue for FOX corporate. The local market revenue is impacted….So them loosing half the viewers doesnt impact nationally……but locally it does because losing half the viewers means losing half the potential revenue they could earn.
The revenue they got through airing the football team alone pays quite a few staff salaries that they would otherwise be forced to lay off.
The home maked clubs can declare which markets are secondary markets with the NFL blessing. So cities that tend to draw fans from farther away are allowed to go beyond the 75 mile radius.
Buffalo has a significant ticket base in Syracuse which is 130 miles away so they make that a secondary market. Same is true with Charlotte because they feel they would draw fans to games from a 3 hrs drive away (like Raleigh). Same is true for Jacksonville in claiming Savananah. Both markets know in college they have fans that ttravel quite a distance to see the gasmes that they feel they can tap into that larger regional fan base to ensure ticket sales.
That is why Greenville is a secondary market to Carolina so they must air road games.
You lived in FOX markets where there is more bias in how games are selected than the CBS stations which are more free to choose which game they can carry.
For both stations FOX was the home team station so the rules involving divisional opponents applies.
The CBS affiliate doesnt have any established “local” AFC teams that there was a fan base. In North Carolina you have a significant number of Redskins fans and in South Carolina you have Atlanta fans who grew up following these teams before the Panthers came to being.
Had their been an AFC team close by before like say Miami in Tampa Bay…the CBS affiliate will carry Miami games whenever it can when they are competative before they know it will draw more viewers. Carolina didnt have ties to an AFC team so the CBS network is free to roam on what games it opts to carry.
Because it is a FOX market and carolina plays at home for 8 weeks the CBS station knows they are stuck with the token 4pm games during the season that will usually involve a west division team when CBS does not have a doubleheader.
I grew up in buffalo and this was under the old rules where you only got 2 games a week when home and not on national TV. We would get 8 of the token games a year which tended to be western teams. The weeks they had the doubleheaders they tended to air the NFC East games and those teams because of the close proximity and strong connect between these two cities. (quite a few of Buffalo transplants live in DC, Philly, and NYC).
DJP
I tell you. Its really frustrating. I just wish money wasnt so obscurd and uptight for FOX, especially with the downfall of the economy goin on.
In your opinion, which station-network is more powerful and makes more revenue based on the ad? FOXSPORTS-OR CBS-SPORTS?
@Jason
All stations make their money based on Ad revenue. That is why there are commercials.
FOX may make more money because NFC team are in more major TV markets.
The cost of the NFC package costs more to FOX than the AFC package does to CBS because of NFC teams being in more major markets.
FOX uses the football games to promote their network more. FOX put in more plugs for their shows. CBS only brings up special programming later in the week and they promo their Sunday night lineup when its the doubleheader game.
As a Falcons fan in Atlanta I would much rather see TB play Carolina than watch teams from the NFC North. Seems to me all of GA FL and Carolinas should have been able to watch TB vs CAR.