Comments Thread For: Klitschko-Jennings Most Viewed Cable Bout Since 2012

[Beercules]

Wlad "Money" Klitschko

[Weltschmerz]

Makes sense, an American fighting the champion on US soil.

[Larry the boss]

Damn 1.7 million people just got turned off to boxing

[Larry the boss]

People fell asleep the moment they tuned in to the fight so they never got to change the channel.

lol..........

[HanzGruber]

People fell asleep the moment they tuned in to the fight so they never got to change the channel.

this is most likely

[bigdunny1]

There's less boxing matches scheduled on Showtime because they're now scheduled on PBC networks - SpikeTV, NBC, CBS, BET. NBC viewership hit 3million, so what exactly is HBO killing?

Showtime having no boxing matches is because Haymon took away his fighters and the few fights Showtime has aired since PBC have been horrendous ratings. Yet HBO has seen no dip in boxing shows or boxing ratings. Actually it's opposite they are airing more fights and doing better ratings. Showtime was delivered a death blow by Haymon creating PBC.

As for PBC they are still losing money (multimillions) each event and are forced to give away free tickets. Their ratings for the first NBC show to the second dropped. And their first NBC ratings weren't that great in the first place. Their spike TV ratings are losing out to reruns of Cops. And Haymon is coming out of pocket overpaying for purses and paying a flat fee to networks to air the shows. And no advertisers are jumping on board to help recoup those loses which means every PBC show is basically an infomercial. There are little to no commercials just promos for the next PBC show. Right now HBO has the superior business model. They do not rely on ratings like network tv because they are a paid service and do not need to cater to attract commercial sponsors. PBC can't function long term without advertisers. Time will tell if PBC will improve on ratings enough to draw in sponsors to pay for all this or if PBC will ultimately fold because they can't sustain these loses for too long. But right now one thing is a fact...PBC hasn't put a dent in HBO's business. But they have crippled Showtime's.

[MDPopescu]

... PBC can't function long term without advertisers. Time will tell if PBC will improve on ratings enough to draw in sponsors to pay for all this or if PBC will ultimately fold because they can't sustain these loses for too long.

PBC holds backup money for this year and the next.

... But, unfortunately, however smart he might be Haymon still can't print money in order to produce profit out of his pharaonic enterprise.

[100percentTruth]

Showtime having no boxing matches is because Haymon took away his fighters and the few fights Showtime has aired since PBC have been horrendous ratings. Yet HBO has seen no dip in boxing shows or boxing ratings. Actually it's opposite they are airing more fights and doing better ratings. Showtime was delivered a death blow by Haymon creating PBC.

As for PBC they are still losing money (multimillions) each event and are forced to give away free tickets. Their ratings for the first NBC show to the second dropped. And their first NBC ratings weren't that great in the first place. Their spike TV ratings are losing out to reruns of Cops. And Haymon is coming out of pocket overpaying for purses and paying a flat fee to networks to air the shows. And no advertisers are jumping on board to help recoup those loses which means every PBC show is basically an infomercial. There are little to no commercials just promos for the next PBC show. Right now HBO has the superior business model. They do not rely on ratings like network tv because they are a paid service and do not need to cater to attract commercial sponsors. PBC can't function long term without advertisers. Time will tell if PBC will improve on ratings enough to draw in sponsors to pay for all this or if PBC will ultimately fold because they can't sustain these loses for too long. But right now one thing is a fact...PBC hasn't put a dent in HBO's business. But they have crippled Showtime's.

Averaging 3 million is horrendous ratings? How is going from 0 viewership for boxing on NBC to 3 million a dip? 3 million is what UFC averages on FOX and they've been doing this for years. Who cares if PBC is effecting HBO? People will watch boxing whether it's on HBO, NBC, on the streets, in the gym. Stop being a dunny.

[bigdunny1]

To put it in perspective Game Of Thrones just did a 3.5mil tv ratings on sunday. And that's the biggest and arguably best show around. Those are great ratings for HBO and why Game of Thrones has a massive budget despite having ratings that if you compared to normal prime time Network shows is not that great. But since HBO is subscription based everyone of those millions watching are paying a premium fee. Which is how Game Of Thrones generates so much money. Generates more money then network shows that get double the ratings.

Idiots keep trying to compare PBC ratings to HBO Boxing or Showtime Boxing when it's totally different. You need to compare PBC to other network primetime shows and sporting events. And then you need to take into account how expensive those PBC shows are. Other sporting leagues have multi-year network deals and commercial sponsors. Meaning the network pays the league for the rights to air it. Haymon has a time buy deal so it's opposite he pays them. Haymon then pays the purses which are in the millions and pays millions for advertisement. NBC aren't paying anything. Haymon is hoping to get high ratings to get sponsors to pay to be a part of this which neither has happened.

[-DSG-]

Damn 1.7 million people just got turned off to boxing

No they didn't the viewership went up. Let's hope your gay buddy Floyd doesn't turn the whole world off of boxing.