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By: Fun at the UFC 99 weigh-ins - Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap

Fun at the UFC 99 weigh-ins - Fightlinker - MMA, UFC, and other funny fight crap — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:08:34 +0000

[...] Setanta staying on air until at least Sunday and everyone making weight, it looks like UFC 99 is all set to go in Cologne, Germany. That’s [...]

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:17:38 +0000

I can’t find the WEC rating on the WO site.

Give it time. You’ll know when its up because Mike Rome will post about it.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:37:33 +0000

I can’t find the WEC rating on the WO site.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:37:14 +0000

Dana White’s twitter;

“Hang tight we will be on tv. Either setanta or bravo. We are working on it”

So it looks like they realize Setanta is probably not an option.

By: bandido

bandido — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:35:46 +0000

http://www.barb.co.uk for ratings #s.

it’s worth pointing out that the bravo vs setanta ratings isn’t apples vs apples:

- a lot more people have bravo than have setanta (one of the basic Sky packages vs a premium subscription channel).

- As Si says, setanta show all the events live (ie the US events in the wee hours of the morning) and then repeat them at more reasonable hours during the week. obviously the German event this weekend is at normal hour.

- Bravo showed them at a sensible hour in the evening on the sunday after, not live.

So without some more context all those ratings might be a little misleading… are we counting re-runs, US event or UK event etc…

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:13:41 +0000

MMA Unlimited reported that UFC draws around 250,000 viewers on Setanta versus the 100,000 they used to get on Bravo

That isn’t correct. Most of the ppv shows on Setanta draw around 20-60,000 viewers. UFC 98 drew 46,000 viewers live.

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:52:22 +0000

Sorry about that. Busy times here in my household. Really busy.

The numbers come from YOUKNOWWHO, so I’m told as a nonsubscriber. But they seem pretty legit. Supposedly UFC 98 is trending really high too. Then again, the number we get for the trending is always the high figure.

By: Zach Arnold

Zach Arnold — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:38:18 +0000

I can’t find the ratings info.

Plus you never returned my mail as you promised last week.

By: Alan Conceicao

Alan Conceicao — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:04:43 +0000

Faber/Brown II did a strong rating on Versus. Question: Does this dispell the talking point of “Its Versus’ fault the WEC ratings are bad”? They now have two big statistical outliers with the same name on the top of the card.

By: Si

Si — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:03:32 +0000

White said on twitter today it’d be either Setanta or Bravo. However, I’m wondering if it defaulted to Bravo, would it be shown live? All previous Bravo broadcasts were delayed by at least a day.