TV Ratings Were A Huge Hit On Championship Weekend On FOX SPORTS SW

[KFDM COOP]

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[AggiesAreWe]

[quote name="KFDM KERRY COOPER" post="937487" timestamp="1293038275"]
http://theoldcoach.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1168185
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Propaganda.

Go to another site and it states the ratings were no where near those numbers.

Kerry, you yourself have stated that ratings numbers are fickle, none you can really trust, and you are in the TV business.

[WOSgrad]

Oh, I have no doubt that ratings were higher.  Because by having the venues consolidated FOX and the UIL were able to control THE TIMES that these games went off.  Even as the UIL had controlled the sites of the 5A title games the last few years, it was not able to control the TIMES of the games from 4A on down which meant that the biggest competition, the other title games where prospective viewers would have been. 

With the "single site" method, the neither the UIL or FOX had that worry.  The Mansfield games didn't interfere because 1) they didn't have teams from the markets that McNabb is crowing about and 2) FOX made sure that crowd stayed home by putting the Mansfield games on the net, having a lot of folks with one game on the laptop and the others on TV.

I wonder if the folks from Coldspring (and Carthage for that matter) that weren't able to make the game because they were able to make the a 4:00 p.m. Friday game and the folks from La Marque who were unable to fit the 4 hour trip late on Friday (probably parents some of them) thought that the "single site" and the "increased mystique" of the game thought it was worth it.

[dayton]

[quote name="WOSgrad" post="937520" timestamp="1293044104"]

I wonder if the folks from Coldspring (and Carthage for that matter) that weren't able to make the game because they were able to make the a 4:00 p.m. Friday game and the folks from La Marque who were unable to fit the 4 hour trip late on Friday (probably parents some of them) thought that the "single site" and [b]the "increased mystique" [/b] of the game thought it was worth it.
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didn't know that comment got to you like that.  :D

I agree with all of your points. Saturday games a must for a state title IMO. I was speaking solely to the single location, and not to the time traveled, time games are played and on and on. ;)