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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%.

they barely did more than the program they replaced

 

[JAY?]

I forced myself to watch the channel for 2 days straight
It sucks

 

[Sam Peel]

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

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!*

lol. i used to love them shows.

i was a little ass gambler.

 

[Gandolpiffini]

Better than espn

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

I probably watched it 1 time so far

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

it really jumps off tonight. football season begins.all that other stuff was just appetizers.

cbs-sports has USC tho. and espn has a double-header.

 

[daemonova]

see, that's the shiet i'm talking about, y'all gonna give her aids

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Chael Sonnen on with the roundtable now. Dropping some gems

- Opening the show: "I haven't been this excited since they stopped charging for porn in the internet"

- Talking about the Jets OL: "They let more people in than our border to with Mexico"

Everybody got uncomfortable. Then he said, "I know you guys don't get the joke cause you don't follow politics, but Twitter in Arizona is now burning up"

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Throw Roddikk in the bushes.

Make Chael permanent. Everytime he speaks, it's like he's doing a WWE promo.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

Throw Roddikk in the bushes.

Make Chael permanent. Everytime he speaks, it's like he's doing a WWE promo.

add that fakkit gay kappler too

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

the channel is really shaping up and filling out now that football season has begun.

I told yall to be patient.

 

[Tom Shady]

the prettiest chick on the channel

 

[PortCityProphet]

This Regis show confuses me. Why is the British chick anchoring? That should be Regis gig. Who are these cats? It's like a bad ATH Sportsnation mesh. Can't watch this. This show sucks.