The Spirit of 76(%)
I might be ahead of myself and maybe Versus doesn’t care, but no one is watching the NHL on TV. For every clown on the league or team payroll who says that the game is great and all the new changes are great … it just isn’t true. I can’t see how any network would continue to underwrite this slop.
The game has no grit. Former fans have turned away. Spin it all you want. Bowling does better in the ratings.
From the wires:
TV watchers didn’t exactly warm up to the NHL’s midweek All-Star game, which experienced a 76 percent drop in household viewership from the previous All-Star game in 2004.
Wednesday night’s game in Dallas drew a 0.7 Nielsen rating on Versus, the cable channel formerly known as OLN. The game was viewed in an estimated 474,298 households and by 672,948 viewers, down from the 1,985,000 households that saw the 2004 All-Star game on a Sunday afternoon on ABC.
Wednesday’s most-watched show, “American Idol” on Fox, drew an estimated 37 million viewers in the 9 p.m. hour.