Looks like Barb and Sky have messed up whatever that 4pm fixture was. That's what is on their website and sent out to everyone. In other words, SOME FOOTBALL WAS ON, strawberry float KNOWS WHAT IT WAS, BUT FOOTBALL!
Preezy wrote:Some context please, KK. Are those figures good/bad/ugly?
The highest rated game...whoever that actually was...is the lowest rated game (for the opening weekend) for at least a decade by a wide margin. So that may indicate the ceiling for what Sky Sports can achieve in terms of max viewership has lowered dramatically, even factoring in if the main feature games in 2010-2015 were better. Everything under that is roughly what you'd expect it to be.
2015Sunday, 4pm: 1,301,000
2014Saturday Night, 5pm: 1,408,000
Super Sunday, 1:30pm: 1,171,000
2013Saturday Night, 5pm: 1,833,000
Super Sunday, 4pm:1,399,000
2012Sunday, 4pm: 1,376,000
2011Sunday, 1:30pm, 1,489,000
Sunday, 4pm: 1,932,000
2010Sunday, 4pm: 1,685,000
Something that is telling is MAIN EVENT (the Sky Sports 1 replacement on the EPG) is way ahead of the Premier League channel. MAIN EVENT is exclusively for Sky customers subscribing to all the Sky Sports channels, so either very few people have dumped their full Sky Sports package, or more people are watching through other platforms (like BT Sport or Virgin Media which haven't adopted the tiered pricing, or don't have access to Premier League).