MMA Payout has learned that the season finale of TUF last Wednesday received 586,000 viewers which was the third highest in the season. Overall, the season average was 477,000 viewers.
Payout Perspective:
We will be trying to obtain the DVR number to round out the graph.
Unfortunately for UFC fans, this was one of the more disappointing seasons in the TUF franchise. The fights were boring, not a lot of characters were drawn out and even the coach’s challenge wasn’t that fun. With the exception of a scoring controversy, there was nothing remarkable about season 19. The irony is that both finals were action-packed first round finishes.
So what do we make of the ratings. One thing that stands out was episode 11 registered one of the lowest (if not the lowest) rating ever on TUF. However, it was the highest rated show on FS1 for that day. This tells us that despite the decline that MMA fans have seen over the years, Fox execs are still pleased with its performance. One of the things that Fox has been pleased with is the amount of people watching on the DVR as DVR +3 ratings have gone up gaining 278,000 viewers compared to TUF 18’s DVR +3 average of 250,000 viewers.
It will be interesting to see how TUF 20 is received with it being the all women house. One thing seems to be certain, TUF is here to stay.
Bagautinov tests positive for epo…..tsk…more drug problems for the ufc