Fox Sports 1 being on air appreciation thread

[STAN JONES]

I been watching alot the last few days and its ok so far

I like the show with McNabb, Roddikk, GP, and (I forgot the 4th dude)

The Tyson interview they did was hilarious. The show kinda reminds me of Best Damn Sports Show a little

2 complaints I have is they talk about baseball way too much and they have too many sports on their ticker.I dont give a damn about all these soccer/golf/etc stats and news, just stick to the major sports

And we need more nfl coverage...WAY MORE

 

[yoyoyo1]

I been watching alot the last few days and its ok so far

I like the show with McNabb, Roddikk, GP, and (I forgot the 4th dude)

The Tyson interview they did was hilarious. The show kinda reminds me of Best Damn Sports Show a little

2 complaints I have is they talk about baseball way too much and they have too many sports on their ticker.I dont give a damn about all these soccer/golf/etc stats and news, just stick to the major sports

And we need more nfl coverage...WAY MORE

so basically you want them to be just like ESPN?

 

[STAN JONES]

so basically you want them to be just like ESPN?

How the hell did you get that from my post

I like that they talk about on the field shyt more then off the field shyt like espn but they dont talk enough footbal thats all

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

How the hell did you get that from my post

I like that they talk about on the field shyt more then off the field shyt like espn but they dont talk enough footbal thats all

they have a whole show dedicated to football.

 

[STAN JONES]

they have a whole show dedicated to football.

i know,i was talking about their "sportscenter" type show that comes on at night.I think its called fox sports live or something like that

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

i know,i was talking about their "sportscenter" type show that comes on at night.I think its called fox sports live or something like that

my bad.

I think theyre going to get more into it the closer we get to the season.

 

[Sam Peel]

did gary payton get fired

 

[#1 pick]

Gary Payton is the reason to watch this shyt.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Fox Sports 1 Averages 160,000 Viewers Nightly in First Week

AUGUST 27, 2013 | 02:09PM PT
It slightly outperforms the network it replaced
Rick Kissell
@ratesric

Numbers are in for the first full week of national sports channel Fox Sports 1, and the net has left plenty of room for improvement.

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Nielsen estimates that FS1 averaged 161,000 viewers in primetime, a little more than the 158,000 that Speed (the former motorsports channel it replaced) opened in the same frame a year ago. The top draws for the net were NASCAR racing events on Wednesday (540,000) and Saturday (428,000).

By comparison, ESPN, which has established a cable sports dynasty after more than 30 years on the air, averaged 2.17 million viewers in primetime last week with a lineup anchored by Major League Baseball action. Among sports nets, FS1 also trailed ESPN2 (473,000), NFL Network (383,000) and MLB Network (193.000) while outdrawing Golf Channel (137,000), NBC Sports Network (104,000), ESPNU (65,000) and NBA TV (58,000).

In total day, Fox Sports 1 averaged 81,000 viewers — down from the 100,000 of Speed last year.

“Fox Sports Live,” the FS1 equivalent of ESPN’s “SportsCenter,” averaged about 75,000 for its three episodes that aired in the vicinity of its target 11 p.m. timeslot — just a fraction of the roughly 1.5 million that “SportsCenter” did on those same nights.

Its late-afternoon discussion show “Crowd Goes Wild,” whose panelists include Regis Philbin, opened to 74,000 viewers on Monday of last week, but dropped to as low as 29,000 on Thursday. It closed strong, spiking to 179,000 on Friday and then drawing 84,000 with a Saturday afternoon edition.

Certainly, nobody expected FS1 to open to huge numbers, and the net’s profile is sure to be raised this fall when it airs college football. It will add MLB games next year, and FS1′s roster down the road will also include NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series and United States Golf Association championship events.

FS1 is currently in about 75% of the nation’s homes, compared with ESPN in roughly 85%.

 

[Optimus Prime]

double

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

a lot of people don't know about the channel yet.

the only reason I had a heads-up is because I know about the channel from this board.

 

[yoyoyo1]

the amount of confusion with fox sports 1 and the epl on nbc business i've seen on the internet lately is merely confirmation that most people are stupid fukking idiots.no wonder we must be bombarded with commercials and warnings and announcements because people really are that stupid and have an inability to retain information.

 

[DjMe]

Anyone who likes that garbage station is just doing it to be contrarian and support the alternative to ESPN.

how much sh*t can foxsports throw on the screen that i dont care about?? i was watching one of their shows, and they were discussing carson palmer being in arizona. half the f*cking screen, in size 72 font was "teams in arizona's division: san francisco, st. louis, seattle". just completely useless information that anyone with half a brain knows, and anyone who doesn't know it and is watching a football analysis show, is going to be too stupid to grasp anyways.

yet with all the bullsh*t they feel they need to clutter up the screen with, they can't find a single goddamn square inch to tell me what theyre going to be talking about for the next 10 segments? thats like, the only good thing espn has going for it! oh, ok, theyre going to be talking about mark sanchez for 15 minutes, looks like i can take a sh*t then come back and see what the latest news on arod is".

bottom line: you want to attract new viewers, talk about the sh*t that the other channels aren't talking about. namely: enough with this fantasy sports garbage. i don't care if it's big business. i remember when these shows used to focus on matchups--team a vs. team b. what are the playoff implications, whos going to win. it could be week 17, bills v patriots, for the afc east, and these networks would spend 55 of their 60 minutes debating whether or not starting gronk is a smart move if youre in a fantasy league that has a championship game that week.

fantasy sports killed sports analysis, not espn, despite what you think.

 

[The War Report]

Anyone who likes that garbage station is just doing it to be contrarian and support the alternative to ESPN.

how much sh*t can foxsports throw on the screen that i dont care about?? i was watching one of their shows, and they were discussing carson palmer being in arizona. half the f*cking screen, in size 72 font was "teams in arizona's division: san francisco, st. louis, seattle". just completely useless information that anyone with half a brain knows, and anyone who doesn't know it and is watching a football analysis show, is going to be too stupid to grasp anyways.

yet with all the bullsh*t they feel they need to clutter up the screen with, they can't find a single goddamn square inch to tell me what theyre going to be talking about for the next 10 segments? thats like, the only good thing espn has going for it! oh, ok, theyre going to be talking about mark sanchez for 15 minutes, looks like i can take a sh*t then come back and see what the latest news on arod is".

bottom line: you want to attract new viewers, talk about the sh*t that the other channels aren't talking about. namely: enough with this fantasy sports garbage. i don't care if it's big business. i remember when these shows used to focus on matchups--team a vs. team b. what are the playoff implications, whos going to win. it could be week 17, bills v patriots, for the afc east, and these networks would spend 55 of their 60 minutes debating whether or not starting gronk is a smart move if youre in a fantasy league that has a championship game that week.

fantasy sports killed sports analysis, not espn, despite what you think.

Fantasy sports? Really?

 

[DjMe]

Fantasy sports? Really?

Yes man, fantasy sports.

Sports journalism used to be about analysis of matchups. NFL Sunday Countdown on ESPN, in the 90s, was 2 pure hours of breaking down a game, and implications of what wins and losses mean for teams.

you may be too young to remember when football annual publications, like street and smith, or lindys, used to have pages of shyster adds for guys that "can't miss" against the spread. call some 900 number and joey buttafooko will tell you who to parlay this weekend to turn that 20 dollars into 50 grand. guaranteed!*

thats what espn, foxsports, and every other site/network has turned into, just for individual players, and their potential impact for fantasy sports junkies. everything, and i mean everything, if filtered through the lens of "celebrity." the lakers dont win a championship--kobe gets his 5th to jordan's 6th. the ravens dont win a super bowl--joe flacco has arrived as an elite quarterback, for now. the yankees dont make a wildcard run--arod hits homeruns despite controversy.

sports journalism died when it turned into a personality cult, instead of occasional fleeting glimpses into the characters that make up your favorite team. in my opinion, this is almost directly linked with the segment of the population that obsessively consumes this information: fantasy sports players. face it: theyre the ones that stay up until 4am watching these shows so they can beat their friends, theyre the ones buying sunday ticket to watch every game, theyre the reason "redzone" exists on the nfl network.

how many people could tell you whos battling for the jets starting qb job? now, how many of those people could tell you who the jets are playing week 1? i've heard more debates this summer (on foxsports, espn, nfl network, you name it) on how many yards adrian peterson will gain this year. but honestly, who gives a f*ck?? people who might draft him in their league, sure. but me? i could care less. now, a sports channel that brought in a beat writer from the vikings to debate a beat writer from the bears about who has the better chance of stealing the division from green bay? let those 2 go at it for 25 minutes til their pretty much swearing at each other?? what network is doing that??

exactly. none of them.