{"id":4836,"date":"2009-02-02T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4836"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:58:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T04:58:39","slug":"winter-x-games-tv-ratings-not-so-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4836","title":{"rendered":"Winter X Games TV Ratings Not So Hot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/winterx.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/winterx.jpg','popup','width=85,height=102,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\/2009\/02\/winterx-tm.jpg\" height=\"120\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Winterx\" \/><\/a><strong>X Games<\/strong> Senior Vice President <strong>Rick Alessandri<\/strong>, is pretty happy with the &#8220;cross-platform&#8221; ratings of the Winter X 13. \u201cThe continued growth across all our multi-media properties is a testament to the passion, athleticism and drama the X Games athletes deliver each event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.com\/2009\/02\/02\/espn-winter-x-games-13-sets-records-across-platforms\/12008\" target=\"_blank\">TVbythenumbers.com<\/a><\/strong> the TV ratings really weren&#8217;t all that strong, though it&#8217;s hard to tell with all this &#8220;best ever&#8221; lingo:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Television: <strong>Winter X Games 13<\/strong> was <strong>ESPN\u2019s<\/strong> highest-rated and most-viewed Winter X Games in history.  The eight telecasts averaged 942,000 homes, up nine percent from 2008.  Young male and people demos were up double digits from last year.  Three of ESPN\u2019s eight Winter X Games telecasts, delivered over a 1.0 rating this year \u2013Friday prime time, Sunday afternoon and Sunday prime time. Sunday night\u2019s 1.3 rating and 1,242,210 homes makes it the highest-rated and most-viewed Winter X Games telecast ever. ABC\u2019s Winter X Games 13 telecast on Saturday averaged a 1.2 household rating and 1,376,481 households.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just for comparison sake nearly seven times as many people watch <strong>Extreme Makeover<\/strong> on ABC TV and 14 times as many people regularly watch <strong>American Idol<\/strong>. The Portland <strong>Summer Dew Tour<\/strong> event that aired live in August (albeit with the Olympics for a lead-in) got a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=1494\" target=\"_blank\">2.7 rating<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tvbythenumbers.com\/2009\/02\/02\/espn-winter-x-games-13-sets-records-across-platforms\/12008\" target=\"_blank\">TVbythenumbers.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Games Senior Vice President Rick Alessandri, is pretty happy with the &#8220;cross-platform&#8221; ratings of the Winter X 13. \u201cThe continued growth across all our multi-media properties is a testament to the passion, athleticism and drama the X Games athletes deliver each event.\u201d But according to a story on TVbythenumbers.com the TV ratings really weren&#8217;t [&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":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836"}],"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=4836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4843,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4836\/revisions\/4843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}