NASCAR - Television Ratings Thread

AuzGrams said:
I'm confused why most of the ratings have been up, but attendance looks down at Phoenix and Fontana.

I wish they'd seperate the 3 west coast races into 2 west coast races and then another 2 west coast races in the summer or later in the spring.
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Somewhere I think they show market share for the ratings. It would be interesting to see what markets were responsible for the increase in ratings.
 
DIDIT said:
Somewhere I think they show market share for the ratings. It would be interesting to see what markets were responsible for the increase in ratings.
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It was the usual ones in the top 5. Greenville, Tulsa, Charlotte, Indianapolis, and another one I'm forgetting, Richmond I think.
 
AuzGrams said:
It was the usual ones in the top 5. Greenville, Tulsa, Charlotte, Indianapolis, and another one I'm forgetting, Richmond I think.
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eh, Tulsa where I live close to, I don't remember them being in the top 5 until the last couple of times this year they have been. I don't know if it is a new metering area or what..ratings are a grey area IMO. The Tulsa area is pretty small compared to the others in the country, the whole state only has three million in it. Pretty strange IMO, but yeah...must be Okie Christopher Bell right? :D
 
StandOnIt said:
eh, Tulsa where I live close to, I don't remember them being in the top 5 until the last couple of times this year they have been. I don't know if it is a new metering area or what..ratings are a grey area IMO. The Tulsa area is pretty small compared to the others in the country, the whole state only has three million in it. Pretty strange IMO, but yeah...must be Okie Christopher Bell right? :D
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Tulsa has been a top market for IndyCar and NASCAR this season
 
Tulsa has been a Top 5 (metered) market for at least Atlanta, Phoenix, and Auto Club so far. And they were Top 5 for the IndyCar opener too.

I think Charlotte, Greensboro, and Greenville are the ones that have been Top 5 every race.
 
StandOnIt said:
Nascar OTT (over the top) could be a move to a full network..interesting

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That is interesting. It points to the fact that streaming services are important, will play a bigger role in the future of how people watch everything, and will effect the next "more money, more money" TV contract.
 
StandOnIt said:
Nascar OTT (over the top) could be a move to a full network..interesting

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OTT gets worse by the week. One streaming package to buy after another. Can't wait for fans to just up and quit paying for this crap. Just another way of gouging fans by leagues and networks.
 
StandOnIt said:
Don't think you pay a dime for fans choice
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Not yet, but that's what 'launching a full OTT product' entails. Taking national series race replay archives, ARCA races, whatever else the networks will let them take off their hands (NBC had rights for K&N and Whelen Modified but it seems like they've forfeited those this year, hence them all airing live on FansChoice) and then putting it behind another paywall.
 
Towmater said:
NASCAR Martinsville overnights down from ’17

Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race from Martinsville (Va.) earned a 1.5 overnight rating on FS1, down 29% from 2017, the last time it was run as scheduled (2.1). Last year’s race was postponed to a Monday and had a 0.8 overnight.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2019/03/ncaa-tournament-ratings-overnights-pga-nascar/
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Last year was a backbreaker in the ratings department but losing a third of your audience in 2 years ain’t nuthin to write home about.
 
1.5 is solid for an FS1 broadcast. Why M'Ville is not on FOX? Its so weird, honestly. One of the highly attended events being on the cable network, weird placement.
 
About 70% viewers for the Martinsville race were over 50 and less than 10% were between 18-34. Change doesn’t happen overnight.
 
It’s interesting that the networks continue to sell advertising time at a pace sufficient to enable the “base” to complain bitterly about the number and frequency of commercials.
 
aunty dive said:
It’s interesting that the networks continue to sell advertising time at a pace sufficient to enable the “base” to complain bitterly about the number and frequency of commercials.
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Yep, ain't that crazy? And I for one am shocked, just shocked to a point of being totally shocked about everything.
 
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While they are not all or even most of the problem, I would say these statistics contribute some to ratings declines.
 
Regarding Nascar on TV and commercials what really shocks me is that people suffer through them as it is completely unnecessary in this day and age. The DVR is your friend.
 
StandOnIt said:
it doesn't show seating or up to the date ratings so there is that. :idunno: It'sfor people interested in the racing not watching the neighbor's dog poop next door. :p
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That is why I DVR as I can concentrate on the racing action. No KFC commercials, no Micheal, no hipster, no meaningless camera angles, no waiting while cars pit, no 10-15 minute breaks between stages, no shameless promos, no side by sides.

It isn’t for everyone but if you are an outdoors person and have other things to do DVR’ing Nascar is the best way to go. There are trade offs but 90 minutes or so on a race works best for me.
 
StandOnIt said:
it doesn't show seating or up to the date ratings so there is that. :idunno: It'sfor people interested in the racing not watching the neighbor's dog poop next door. :p
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I've given up, it's all over. There were only three fans at Martinsville below the age of 55. And they were brought in baby strollers. It's official, it's over, there will never be another race, anywhere. Don't let it shock you, it's all been covered here at length. The really smart people read the tea leaves, they've been bracing us "apologist" for the certain end. I'm so glad the wizard of smart shares his smartlyness with us commoners.
 
I'm shocked that someone from the everything is great in NASCARland camp realized that if the ratings keep falling and we don't replenish the younger fans that the sport ends at some point. Yep, shocked.
 
mack said:
I've given up, it's all over. There were only three fans at Martinsville below the age of 55. And they were brought in baby strollers. It's official, it's over, there will never be another race, anywhere. Don't let it shock you, it's all been covered here at length. The really smart people read the tea leaves, they've been bracing us "apologist" for the certain end. I'm so glad the wizard of smart shares his smartlyness with us commoners.
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I think the apocalypse has been predicted by the wizard of doom the day the TV contract expires. BTW I counted 4 young fans. I don't know how the heck they get around this or the earnings statements that continue to show profits, despite all of the doom and gloom we keep hearing about after loosing seemingly multitudes of fans.
Combined 2017 NASCAR attendance revenue was $215.1 million
 
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Towmater said:
I'm shocked that someone from the everything is great in NASCARland camp realized that if the ratings keep falling and we don't replenish the younger fans that the sport ends at some point. Yep, shocked.
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There are always a couple of people that get out of sorts about the TV ratings and demographic. I can’t help that about 70% of the people that watch Nascar races are over 50 or that less than 10% are in the preferred demo.

It is what it is and the numbers get worse each year and I don’t see why anyone would be upset.
 
Who's upset? I've accepted the brilliance of the reel smartly peeple, that's dun figird it all out for us simpltuns. Thanks for all the interlectuwals. Where wood we be ifn we didn't have geenyuses to set us skraite?
 
I love the daily reminders myself and the crystal ball predictions, it's like reading the national enquirer. Something to do on slow news days.
 
and as long as you ignore the financial part of it all. :D The bottom line is where the rubber meets the road. Always will be on a business instead of public charities that so many allude too.
 
IanMcVittie said:
There are always a couple of people that get out of sorts about the TV ratings and demographic. I can’t help that about 70% of the people that watch Nascar races are over 50 or that less than 10% are in the preferred demo.

It is what it is and the numbers get worse each year and I don’t see why anyone would be upset.
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There are always a couple of people entering multiple posts on a daily basis intended to remind us all that the ratings have dropped off the cliff.

Always so informative and completely free of any detectable bias. You and the tomato are pillars of the fan base. Congratulations.
 
Folks the ratings and demographics of Nascar are nothing to become upset or overjoyed about. They are just a weekly snapshot of how the series is doing and the same thing that takes place with sports too.

You can draw you own conclusions about whether 70% of NASCAR’s TV audience being over 50 is good bad or indifferent.
 
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