Comments on: NCAA B-ball finals hit record lows

By: Casey Abell

Casey Abell — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:15:31 +0000

Kind of surprised that the 18-34 male demo dropped so much (14%) for the entire tournament, while the 25-54 male demo hardly dropped at all (2%). Conventional wisdom has always been that basketball skews youngest among the major sports. Maybe that’s changing as the country gets older overall. Lord knows, I moved out of the basketball demo way too many years ago.

By: FanSection Blog - Sports, Social Media, Analysis, Commentary

FanSection Blog - Sports, Social Media, Analysis, Commentary — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:11:48 +0000

[...] entire tournament, the news was much better for CBS. Game broadcasts averaged 8.9 million users – an increase of 2% over last year’s all time lows. However, the male 18-34 demographics saw a drop of 14%, which has to be very concerning to CBS [...]

By: Jared

Jared — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:17:25 +0000

Watching the 10 minutes of this game that I did made me miss last year’s awesome game even more. that game was pure excitement. Apparently we can get 2 great Super Bowls in a row but not 2 great Men’s Championship Games

By: dave

dave — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 03:05:08 +0000

Blowouts suck. I can’t imagine any sports fans that watched the whole thing unless they were an active Michigan State fan(Sadists, but I’ve watched more depressing Bills games in their entirety) or a UNC fan.

By: RJ

RJ — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 02:28:15 +0000

Last night the game was very boring. I’m surpised the numbers were still this high.

By: Robert Seidman

Robert Seidman — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:34:10 +0000

Doug, completely agree. Last night’s game was over fast, the numbers are no surprise at all, but still, it’s a record. On the plus side, viewing for the overall tournament was actually up a tad from last year. I’ll add those numbers to the post.

By: doug h

doug h — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 01:19:06 +0000

I think a lot of this had to do with UNC just dominating from tip off. I watched the game for 15 minutes, and when UNC was up 22-8 I just changed channels. Also, last years game KU vs Memphis was exciting, and actually competitive unlike this game.