lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Just looked at the official viewing figures for the Spectacular SPL (The Top Division in Scotland) Showpiece opener to the Football season. 91000 viewers for The League Champions against The Mighty Aberdeen. Ok Ok my Sarcasm aint that good, but surely that is shocking ratings. These are the games that Sky are relying on to keep the interest going, any involving Celtic should be their bankers surely....what they gonna get when its Ross County vs Hibs....The game was beaten by WWE smackdown and Superleague rugby, for a week when there was no other football on sky sports 2, 13000 less than the rugby......surely Sky will be taking note of these shocking figures. Would luv to know what the BBC Alba viewing figures were but cant find them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue and True 311 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 91000 AINT going to interest the sponsors or the advertisersWhen we play them the viewing number is around 700000 The average figure for our games is around 135000 so 50% more and this was a showcase game FFS.The SPL is dying on its arse.And for the reccord.I ve seen it metioned that our crowd on Saturday was greater than the combined total at all other SPL games played that day.While true its not quite the whole story.The combined SPL Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 came to just over 45000.So more people watched Rangers than the total for EVERY senior game in the country.But you know what? the phannies still think they can live without us. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
beattie72 170 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 91000 AINT going to interest the sponsors or the advertisersWhen we play them the viewing number is around 700000 The average figure for our games is around 135000 so 50% more and this was a showcase game FFS.The SPL is dying on its arse.And for the reccord.I ve seen it metioned that our crowd on Saturday was greater than the combined total at all other SPL games played that day.While true its not quite the whole story.The combined SPL Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 came to just over 45000.So more people watched Rangers than the total for EVERY senior game in the country.But you know what? the phannies still think they can live without us. Nice Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 Oh 16000 watched ESPN on the Sunday....For Dundee Utd Vs Hibs......earth shattering figures.....beaten by Ultimate Fighting lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sergio 1,199 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 91000 AINT going to interest the sponsors or the advertisersWhen we play them the viewing number is around 700000 The average figure for our games is around 135000 so 50% more and this was a showcase game FFS.The SPL is dying on its arse.And for the reccord.I ve seen it metioned that our crowd on Saturday was greater than the combined total at all other SPL games played that day.While true its not quite the whole story.The combined SPL Div 1 Div 2 Div 3 came to just over 45000.So more people watched Rangers than the total for EVERY senior game in the country.But you know what? the phannies still think they can live without us. Your right they cannot live without us, Why do you think the SPL are keeping back the figures for the TV deal ? I am of the opinion that it is not good news, because if it was, they would be shouting it from the rooftops Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peasie 103 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Where are these tv viewing figures available from?I wouldn't mind keeping track of these figures as the season progresses. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmiston Drive 3,846 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Just looked at the official viewing figures for the Spectacular SPL (The Top Division in Scotland) Showpiece opener to the Football season. 91000 viewers for The League Champions against The Mighty Aberdeen. Ok Ok my Sarcasm aint that good, but surely that is shocking ratings. These are the games that Sky are relying on to keep the interest going, any involving Celtic should be their bankers surely....what they gonna get when its Ross County vs Hibs....The game was beaten by WWE smackdown and Superleague rugby, for a week when there was no other football on sky sports 2, 13000 less than the rugby......surely Sky will be taking note of these shocking figures. Would luv to know what the BBC Alba viewing figures were but cant find them.Alba figures..............200 Hectors.........125 Angus..........6 Morags............10 Collies Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 Where are these tv viewing figures available from?I wouldn't mind keeping track of these figures as the season progresses.http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weekly-top-programmes?gives you all programmes, movie channels, sports channels etc, Barb are the official viewing figure source. Only gives you top 10s though, so if they fall out of that, which can be expected when the EPL games kick in they probably wont appear. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick9005 7 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Laughable viewing figures for a league which would apparently "prosper" without us! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRodgA2k8 542 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 That's because the other 200,000 were at Septic Park don't ya know...Seville Calculator fully in tow Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 238 thousand watched the first game last season....anyone know what that was ?....quite a massive diffrence Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoramsLeftThumb 27 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 The peterhead game was 166,000 according to that site. Some difference! Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shetland 76 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Funny thing is it says only 25k people watch the Edinburgh derby on ESPN Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rangers Lady 2,380 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 So they have lost thousands of neutrals now that the league is no longer competitive (were no there).Actually didn't think it would be such a huge drop..delighted though Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peasie 103 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 238 thousand watched the first game last season....anyone know what that was ?....quite a massive diffrenceI thought it was 306,000 watched Rangers v Hearts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 I thought it was 306,000 watched Rangers v Hearts.Might be right, i was looking for the same game at the same time last year as the Celtic Aberdeen this year, but season started at a diffrent time last year so my dates would be out Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOAT 30,449 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I thought it was 306,000 watched Rangers v Hearts.Also, let's not forget...Ibrox was packed that day, the piggery was 12,000 short of capacity. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 The peterhead game was 166,000 according to that site. Some difference!Just seen that one psml how embarassing......even more so for Aberdeen people would rather watch Peterhead take on an old firm team than watch them......classic Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peasie 103 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 So let's see so far we have 166,000 Peterhead v Rangers (Third Division)91,000 Penn State v Aberdeen (SPL)25,000 Hibs v Hearts (SPL)16,000 Dundee United v Hibs (SPL)Or - more have watched one Third Division game than three SPL games (one of which was a flag raiser). Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lathos 21 Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 So let's see so far we have 166,000 Peterhead v Rangers (Third Division)91,000 Penn State v Aberdeen (SPL)25,000 Hibs v Hearts (SPL)16,000 Dundee United v Hibs (SPL)Or - more have watched one Third Division game than three SPL games (one of which was a flag raiser).Gotta luv Rangers supporters right now havent you......Oh i suppose we should also thank the Peterhead fans as well......Bob and Shamus Thank you Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peasie 103 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 We shall see how this pans out over the season but the first "big" game is already 215,000 down on the same type of fixture (flag raiser) last season.Look at the Old Firm games from last season851,000 (28/12/2011) Celtic v Rangers624,000 (18/09/2011) Rangers v Celtic608,000 (25/03/2012) Rangers v Celtic454,000 (29/04/2012) Celtic v RangersThey're not going to have anywhere near those figures.They (SPL) better hope the rumour "one year deal with an option for a further four years" isn't true because Sky are going to look at the viewing figures and reduce the deal even further. What's the chances of there not being a clause in there that lets them walk - if they had a clause for four Old Firm games in the previous deal.Talking of Sky deals - tick tock till the transfer window closes - still no sign of the money? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelavic191 4,534 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Will be interesting to see what happens with the figures for the Scotland game Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz92 966 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Thing is, it's barely even funny now, it's just plain fucking tragic.70k more watched a Division Three game than watched the unfurling of the Premier League flag? It's almost too embarrassing to even joke about last night.Mind you, I wonder how many of the Peterhead games viewers were the great unwashed sitting with the volume up, and the notebook out, waiting to hear something that offended them... Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmytto 220 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Don't mock now, a lot of them would've been out searching for school uniform. Legitimate excuse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelavic191 4,534 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Thing is, it's barely even funny now, it's just plain fucking tragic.70k more watched a Division Three game than watched the unfurling of the Premier League flag? It's almost too embarrassing to even joke about last night.Mind you, I wonder how many of the Peterhead games viewers were the great unwashed sitting with the volume up, and the notebook out, waiting to hear something that offended them...I thought they were all off out to support Sell-Out Saturday on that day Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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