{"id":5349,"date":"2014-10-02T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2014-10-02T00:33:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:33:10","slug":"isu-football-sets-tv-sports-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/isu-football-sets-tv-sports-record\/","title":{"rendered":"ISU football sets TV sports record"},"content":{"rendered":"

But not the kind we wanted…<\/a>\u00a0(emphasis added)<\/p>\n

The Baylor\/Iowa State college football game drew a 0.9 overnight rating on FOX Saturday night, down 25% from Arizona\/Washington last year (1.2), down 68% from Texas\/Oklahoma State in 2012 (2.8), and tied as the lowest overnight ever for primetime college football on FOX<\/strong>. Fresno State\/USC drew the same overnight in week one.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 0.9 is very likely the lowest ever<\/strong> for primetime college football on any broadcast network<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Just about every other ISU game is an 11 AM kickoff on FS1, and the result here won’t help break out of that. (The 35-7 halftime hole didn’t either, of course.)<\/p>\n

For comparison’s sake, here are the cable<\/em> ratings for Saturday night<\/a>. College football on ESPN took the top three spots, but look at three of the next four. Baylor-ISU on broadcast network television was neck-and-neck with reruns of The Big Bang Theory<\/em> on basic cable. Now you know why TBS keeps showing it.<\/p>\n

(Related item: “Television ratings and the fragmentation of broadcast audiences”<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But not the kind we wanted…\u00a0(emphasis added) The Baylor\/Iowa State college football game drew a 0.9 overnight rating on FOX Saturday night, down 25% from Arizona\/Washington last year (1.2), down 68% from Texas\/Oklahoma State in 2012 (2.8), and tied as … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5352,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}