Cleverly v Mcintosh got 600,000 viewers

In April I, finally, set up home with my girlfriend. On the first Saturday we were living together ITV were showing the Watson vs McDonnell fight...

She got relegated to the small tv in the bedroom! :good :happy

 

Top man!!:good

 

If the 600,000 is true that means for every person that watched Khan (if the 30,000 figure is correct) 20 people watched Clev.

Or to put it another way, Hennessey pissed all over Warren.

If you were a plumber where would you want you're advertising?

 

It is 30,000 times £15 though......;O)


That makes up for a lot of lost advertising money.

 

Boxing is a niche sport but not in the TV ratings. Froch, Khan etc all brought in decent crowds.

I remember them saying 2.5mil watched Williams v Sprott in the middle of the day and I knew people won't just switch off for the **** of it.

A good fight is easily understood so people should initially give boxing a chance. If it is boring or not hyped they will switch over.

 

It was pretty surreal when it was put on in the pub/club I was in at the time, half the lads carried on dancing and chasing skirt and half just stopped to watch the fight.

 

The show peaked at 594,500.

 

ITV needs to keep boxing.

 

I work for ITV sport.

 

atsch

nearly 600,000 for a fight of this size promoted as anonymously as it was gets this amount of viewers, most probably in the key male 18-35 demographic and you are giving up boxing for what reason exactly?

 

Can you give us any more info on how true the ITV Box office rumours are then mate?
No more boxing on free to air ITV after 2009, is that true?

Anything you can give us is appreciated, good to hear from someone on the inside :good

 

It was firstly a peak, not a show average. And secondly, the fight ended in the 7th (i think) meaning lost advertising revenue at the end of the 7th, 9th and 11th. The fight could of been over in the 3rd as well which would of been even worse.

The writing was on the wall for the hennesey contract when his crown jewel froch only drew a million in ITV 1 primetime. A re-run of a touch of frost would of got around 2.5-3mil without the whole production cost as well.

Boxing is unfortunatly not economically viable on fta in the present climate.

 

Its hardly a like for like comparison

 

Thanks for that. It disappointing for all of us but I guess it is what it is.
What are the typical production costs LosG and what does the TV network pay for compared to the promoter?