Comments Thread For: Porter-Berto Bout Drew Average of 468,000 Viewers on Showtime

[original zero]

Your a phuking idiot so streaming only effects showtime?

HBO GO does not allow you to watch the fight live, Showtime Anytime does. HBO GO does not allow you to watch the entire broadcast on demand. Showtime Anytime does. HBO GO makes you wait several days to see the fights. Showtime Anytime makes the fights available the next day. HBO makes you wait until the next morning for the first replay. Showtime replays the fight right away and then again in the morning.

Every move HBO makes is designed to maximize the published live number. Every move Showtime makes is designed to make things as convenient for the subscriber as possible.

If you want to stream HBO Live there are numerous platforms to do so for cord cutters. People who stream HBO through slingtv, directvNow, ps vue, ect don't effect hbo ratings or any other cable channel?

Nielson includes vMVPDs, which is why HBO allows linear streaming on those services. The viewing counts towards the live number.

Stop talking about things you know absolutely nothing about.

[bigdunny1]

HBO GO does not allow you to watch the fight live, Showtime Anytime does. HBO GO does not allow you to watch the entire broadcast on demand. Showtime Anytime does. HBO GO makes you wait several days to see the fights. Showtime Anytime makes the fights available the next day. HBO makes you wait until the next morning for the first replay. Showtime replays the fight right away and then again in the morning.

Every move HBO makes is designed to maximize the published live number. Every move Showtime makes is designed to make things as convenient for the subscriber as possible.




Nielson includes vMVPDs, which is why HBO allows linear streaming on those services. The viewing counts towards the live number.

Stop talking about things you know absolutely nothing about.

That's a lie not all these streaming platforms allow Nelson ratings some flat out don't some allow the users to disable it. And what does it matter if HBO GO allows live stream or not you get it for the same price on sling, directv, ps vue, ect. HBO replays the same fight multiple times over weekend and pits it on demand after that. If you watch any of the rebroadcast or on demand it hurts HBO live viewer numbers as well.

It's 2017 every channel out there has streaming and on demand which effects all network ratings. Meaning they are all operating on the same even playing field with ratings. Only your dumb azz thinks this drastically effects one network and not it's competitors. It's a weak crutch to explain showtime tanking ratings that started in 2015 at the same time PBC launched. Sell your fairy tales elsewhere. What hurt showtime is dumb azz haymon taking all showtime fighters off showtime and on different networks for a year and half leaving showtime with zero boxing for long months at a time. And showtime is trying to climb back out that hole that PBC dug for them. All those lost viewers didn't all decide hey let's just watch the fights only on the showtime app. LMAO

[TheCell8]

Hopefully we never get to see anymore Shawn Porter fights on primetime...

[original zero]

That's a lie not all these streaming platforms allow Nelson ratings some flat out don't some allow the users to disable it.

People opting out is irrelevant because the numbers are extrapolated from the data Nielson does have. If a service is an vMVPD, Nielson will include the live viewers towards the published HBO number.

And what does it matter if HBO GO allows live stream or not you get it for the same price on sling, directv, ps vue, ect.

HBO GO doesn't count towards the live number, which is why HBO makes watching boxing on HBO GO as undesirable as possible. Meanwhile, Showtime makes watching boxing on Showtime Anytime as desirable as possible. HBO deliberately makes watching boxing extremely inconvenient and Showtime deliberately makes watching boxing very convenient. This is because one company is obsessed with the published live number while the other doesn't give a ****.

[bigdunny1]

HBO has higher ratings because more people watch HBO then showtime that's true whether they watch it through a cable provider or cord cutters and stream it through HBO directly or a 3rd party streaming service. Regardless of the platform and how they watxh it mire people consume HBO then Showtime. It's that simple. And prior to PBC showtime was on HBO's heels in boxing ratings. Losing so many fighters and no consistency in seeing a fighter crippled their ratings. One fight a guy is on spike, next he's on ESPN, then he's on showtime, then he's on FOX is terrible way to do business. And the ratings speak for themselves.

[original zero]

HBO has higher ratings because more people watch HBO then showtime

That isn't how ratings work. HBO has more viewers because they have more subscribers, but ratings are based on the percentage of homes that have the channel.

You know absolutely nothing about this subject, which is why you're consistently posting false information.

Meanwhile, despite all of the advantages HBO has in concerns to the live viewership, they still lost head to head recently to Showtime.

Showtime is gaining ground on HBO in a major way when it comes to boxing and while you obsess over the live linear number, HBO & Showtime know the real number of subscribers they're reaching with boxing and that is why HBO is cutting their boxing budget while Showtime is increasing theirs.

[iamboxing]

I would have thought Porter would be a draw given his exciting style, so I'm blaming this on matching him with Berto. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the fight.

[bigdunny1]

People opting out is irrelevant because the numbers are extrapolated from the data Nielson does have. If a service is an vMVPD, Nielson will include the live viewers towards the published HBO number.




HBO GO doesn't count towards the live number, which is why HBO makes watching boxing on HBO GO as undesirable as possible. Meanwhile, Showtime makes watching boxing on Showtime Anytime as desirable as possible. HBO deliberately makes watching boxing extremely inconvenient and Showtime deliberately makes watching boxing very convenient. This is because one company is obsessed with the published live number while the other doesn't give a ****.

Dude you flat out phuking lying ESPN literally said these streaming services don't count towards nielsen.



ESPN isn’t backing down. On Friday, it called the data a “historic anomaly for the industry and inconsistent with much more moderated trends observed by other respected third party analysts.” The network noted that the number doesn’t measure new streaming TV operators like Dish Network Corp.’s Sling TV and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation Vue, which carry ESPN.

Slingtv now offers the option to let nielsen track your viewing for their ratings but you have to enable it on your device to opt in to neilsen ratings. You can leave it disabled and most of the other services don't even give you the option and are flat out not tracked by neilsen. Stop pretending that Showtime is in a bubble where they are the only ones who offer streaming and on demand content that effect their ratings. It's a lame attempt to explain why the ratings suck. Every network dealing with the changing landscape of how people view tv. So it effect them all equally not just showtime. I could easily say if not for on demand, streaming and HBO re-aring their fight multiple times HBO last fight instead of doing almost 1m viewers it would of done 1.5m viewers and make BS excuses like you. LMAO

[bigdunny1]

Showtime draws MUCH higher ratings then this for other programming, shows, movies. so motherphukers who pay for showtime clearly ONLY watch boxing on the showtime anywhere app but the rest of the programs they must say screw the app SMH so only boxing fans who are among the oldest demographic compared to other sports fans are cord cutting? LMAO at this fairy tale to explain shyt ratings.

[original zero]

Dude you flat out phuking lying ESPN literally said these streaming services don't count towards nielsen.

That's not what they said. You have to remember that you're not very smart and you're easily confused and/or mistaken.

The network noted that the number doesn’t measure new streaming TV operators like Dish Network Corp.’s Sling TV and Sony Corp.’s PlayStation Vue, which carry ESPN.

They're talking about subscriber numbers, not viewership numbers, Two totally different things. It's funny to see you try so hard to seem like you know what you're talking about, only to fail so spectacularly.

Slingtv now offers the option to let nielsen track your viewing for their ratings but you have to enable it on your device to opt in to neilsen ratings.

And they extrapolate data based on those that opt in. Again, you have no idea what you're talking about.

I could easily say if not for on demand, streaming and HBO re-aring their fight multiple times HBO last fight instead of doing almost 1m viewers it would of done 1.5m

Of course. But the point is that HBO purposely makes it annoyingly difficult to watch ways other than live, to help beef up the live number, while Showtime makes it very very easy to watch without counting towards the published number.

So the numbers need to be judged with that in mind.