Comments on: Report: Elite XC 10/4 CBS show drew same ratings as May event

By: DannyD

DannyD — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:25:56 +0000

Jesus Christ(and his friend peter oohh)I thought I was going to get through a post with out reading crap from d.cap

By: D.Capitated

D.Capitated — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:50:05 +0000

They’re in this for the business. If EXC drops in ratings for the next show, which it will, it’ll most likely do worse than the other major stations.

Jesus christ, how many times has this sentence been repeated on here?

By: IceMuncher

IceMuncher — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:46:46 +0000

“They’re going to take over the company but they can’t say that yet. They don’t look at EliteXC as a $50M loss. They look at it as an investment. $50M is chump change to Viacom. That’s the big picture. They can’t do business with the UFC so this is their answer.”

MMA isn’t a passion for CBS. They’re in this for the business. If EXC drops in ratings for the next show, which it will, it’ll most likely do worse than the other major stations. This past show barely beat out NBC’s repeats. It doesn’t matter how much money Viacom has, they won’t keep a failing program around for very long.

By: Michael Rome

Michael Rome — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:39:09 +0000

Sigh.

The show starts off with 3.53 million viewers. Carano’s fight comes on and she brings in a million new viewers. In the next half hour segment, they actually lost viewers, which is absolutely terrible for a fight show, but most who came in for Carano stuck around the whole show.

Carano is a draw. There’s no way to interpret the numbers otherwise.

By: dave2

dave2 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:31:00 +0000

Were the ratings about equal for the Carano, Arlovski and Shields fights? Either that means Shields/Daley are draws or Carano and Arlovski aren’t drawing like they are supposed to.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:26:29 +0000

If CBS does want to purchase it (and I will predict it will still fail long term)….

They will likely infuse enough money into the company for one more CBS show… To see how it does post-Kimbo loss. If it sees a decrease in ratings, my prediction is that they will just let it die.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:16:57 +0000

Makes no sense. Their ratings didn’t improve from the first Kimbo show. With him getting beat so quick, rating will only go down.

Long term, this will be a bust.

By: frankp316

frankp316 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:21:13 +0000

They’re going to take over the company but they can’t say that yet. They don’t look at EliteXC as a $50M loss. They look at it as an investment. $50M is chump change to Viacom. That’s the big picture. They can’t do business with the UFC so this is their answer.

By: Michael Rome

Michael Rome — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:11:46 +0000

No he went specifically out of his way to avoid answering the real question. Of course CBS will take the 4th show, that is not the important question. The important question is what happens when Elite runs out of funding after the November show and they can’t get any new financing?

By: frankp316

frankp316 — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:53:32 +0000

Is Gina Carano a draw? It’s very risky and short of making a deal with Affliction and getting Fedor, EliteXC doesn’t have another draw. It’s only risky because it hasn’t been done yet. But with Kimbo doing his inevitable Bob Sapp impersonation, she’s it. And Kelly Kahl of CBS said they were happy with the rating and there will be a fourth show. And again he repeated that those predicting the demise of EliteXC don’t see the whole picture.