{"id":1494,"date":"2008-08-27T07:35:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2008-08-27T07:35:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T14:35:39","slug":"ast-sets-tour-tv-audience-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1494","title":{"rendered":"AST Sets Tour TV Audience Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ast.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ast.jpg','popup','width=372,height=81,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/ast-tm.jpg\" height=\"43\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ast\" \/><\/a>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AST Dew Tour<\/a><\/strong> is touting the fact that they had a &#8220;record TV audience&#8221; on Sunday August 24, 2008 with a 2.7 overnight rating for live coverage of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ast.com\/modules.php?name=Events&amp;EventID=3\" target=\"_blank\">Wendy&#8217;s Invitational<\/a><\/strong> from Portland, OR. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This marks the highest rated Dew Tour broadcast in its four-year history along with being the highest rated daytime action sports broadcast in history. Sunday&#8217;s broadcast benefited from an NBC Olympic broadcast &#8220;lead-in,&#8221; the final day of the Beijing Olympic Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Olympic lead-in probably would have delivered similar ratings to a documentary about watching paint dry if <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a><\/strong> had decided to program it, but thanks to the Dew Tour a lot of older American&#8217;s are now saying, &#8220;those BMX kids are amazing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AST Dew Tour is touting the fact that they had a &#8220;record TV audience&#8221; on Sunday August 24, 2008 with a 2.7 overnight rating for live coverage of the Wendy&#8217;s Invitational from Portland, OR. This marks the highest rated Dew Tour broadcast in its four-year history along with being the highest rated daytime action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}