The Ultimate Fighter 20’s season debut which Fox re-aired on the network Sunday “adjacent” to NFL on Fox game coverage scored a composite of 1.735 million viewers. Additional re-airs on FS1 and FS2 added 267,000 viewers for a total of 2.54 million according to a company media release.
It was the first time that Fox has aired a TUF episode on Sunday next to NFL games. The times as to when TUF aired on Fox varied. For example, some viewers across the country saw TUF prior to the 1pm west coast (4pm east coast) game while others saw it after the early games (10am/1pm respectively). In Seattle, TUF did not air until 11:30pm on Sunday night.
The 1.753M number comes from the national average of viewers which Nielsen calculates using around 200+ local markets.
In addition, the Live +3 day viewership drew a significant amount more viewers (up 55%) as it added another 295,000 viewers to the initial viewership of 536,000. Thus, the total amount of viewers that saw TUF 20’s debut (if you included those that saw it on DVR) was 831,000.
Payout Perspective:
The total viewers that have seen TUF 20 is actually 2,538,000 although the media release rounded up. Airing TUF on Sundays piggybacking on the NFL should help with the visibility of the TUF product as the hope appears to be snagging NFL fans not flipping to the Red Zone channel after/before the games on Fox. It’s a good more and shows that the UFC/Fox really want to push this season.
Smart Idea. The time slot is dead with football on the other network. Getting almost 2 million viewers on a rerun that’s already been paid for seems like a home run especially condering the added effect it could have on TUF and other future UFC programs that Fox will reap the rewards from.
The UFC should look at showing reruns on one of the woman’s networks. This would be a great lead in for WWE’s Diva show.
At first I was impressed since I thought it was a cable re-run, but those numbers are pretty mediocre considering it was shown on the main Fox Network. Just how desperate is the UFC in trying to revive this crappy reality show, just let it die and replace it with something new and not just a gimmick.
Hahahaha…nice try for a spin from ufc and fox….just to say they had 1 plus plus viewers…
Tops eats turds.
Logical, how is that bad when it wasn’t promoted as even being in and most fans watched first run? If the show would have aired on fox originally and was promoted as being on. It would likely get about 3 million in that cheesey time slot head to head with NFL.
Promotion is everything and up to now TUF has been used to promote FS1 rather than the other way around. If they start running the show on Sundays with the NFL, of course it will help viewership. Good for the UFC, and for Fox it may help to lead fans to FS1 eventually.
Can’t wait to hear all the excuses from the boxing fanboys as to why Mayweather once again failed to crack a million ppv buys.
Cant wait to hear all the excuses from all the fuck tards as to why boxing will double UFC ppv in 2014 bababah. Truth be told Mayweather is on his way out, he needs an exciting opponent, only a sperm receptacle like D wouldn’t understand oh wait UFC sold out in Mexico bahahahahah
Wait for the result on salaries…how many ufc events equals mayweather one fight salary….where did 500 mil go? all for marketing the ufc? Hahaha
http://businessdayonline.com/2014/09/richest-sportsman-floyd-mayweather-worth-420m/#.VBub_kPju
Good read hahahaha
mayweather PPV buys estimated at 925k ouch!!! thats almost doubles the best ufc show. Seriously I cant see it doing that well at almost 80 buks a buy. wow thats like 74 million gross. the way the UFC fuck tard clown fan boys do math thats a big check lol Funny how boxing will double UFC for 2014 with half the events.. ouch whos sucking the big DICK now! D=Indian boy= sucking the big cock bahahahaha hold on now! mexico is coming on strong to save the year for the ufc bahahahahahha suck another dick D bahahahah
HAHAHAHAHA!! First off, boxing won’t double the ufc in ppv buys in 2014, and the only reason why they are getting more buys is because the ufc lost their two biggest stars, there has been a ton of injuries to major events, and a number have been canceled. Interesting that you conveniently ignore the last 7 years where the ufc destroyed them in both buys and revenue.
Spin that you boxing welfare to work Arum fag!
Better read:
Mike Tyson estimated 400 million career earnings.
2012 net worth……-in the red owing the irs millions.
2014….still in debt
Evander Holyfield estimated 300 million earned in his career.
2008….his mansion goes into foreclosure, all of his assets liquidated, owes the IRS millions and is in debt.
Floyd Mayweather
2014…allegedly has 400 million in earnings
2024… takes the same road as the other two idiots and blows everything, followed by him blowing Arum to get a fight similar to the way Sal does to buy lunch.
HAHAHA!!!
Sal you dumb homo fag!! Talk about math. You lying moron. All you do is make shit up.
Avg. Maidana-Mayweather II ppv buy $70, NOT $80 you stupid queer! That is a total of 63 million of that 64.75m, 25.9 goes to the promoter, fighter and distributor, the rest goes to the cable company. That is the actual math you dumb prag!
Keep making shit up. Everyone knows all you do is suck arum’s dick you fucking fag!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! You geriatric dirty old fuck! Weird and Gay is your slogan!!
D is agitated again hahaha
D is agitated again hahaha….
Boxing fans are to stupid to stop paying for over priced boring boxing PPV’s. The boxers are to stupid to be able to hold onto it. The entire sport and it’s fan base has an IQ of a flee! Boxing = Inner City Saving Plan. They spend all their welfare check on boxing PPV and the boxer later comes back and spends it on drugs and 40’s. Hahaha
Ha it was 74.99 us for HD fuck tard, we know you don’t have hd or a toilet or toilet paper in dirty India so you have an excuse I rounded up but it doesn’t matter Boxing is smoking the UFC in 2014 it will and IS doubling it!!!! Smoke another cock D baHAHAHA I agree with BS its way too much for a lame fight!! but D can’t handle almost a MILLION BUYS bahhhahahaha ok 60 million or whatever it doesn’t matter you are a total fuck tard bahaha Boxing is still trucking along whats the UFC doing??? oh yea drowning but wait it sold out in mexico bahahaha
Try again fuck stick
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Thanks for admitting you are retarded and you just fabricated the price of the ppv buys. By the way, that $75 price, WAS NOT THE AVERAGE BUY PRICE!!! According to Leonard Ellerbe, the buys are split between hd and sd and the average is $70 typically for their ppvs you dumb, weird, gay, fuck!!!
HAHAHAHA!! Break out the champagne Sal, although boxing will not double the ufc in ppv buys, it took acts of God for them to finally get more ppv buys in a year than the ufc who have dominated the market share for the last 7 years. They needed the top two stars to disappear(if you want to see a real collapse, wait until Mayweather retires next year), and nearly every other major event to get cancelled due to injury. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! How pathetic!!
Bob’s got you working overtime again, you boxing welfare to work fag troll!! Go change your diapers, mr type II diabetic, old geriatric, weird, gay, smelly fuck!
Oh D dont get mad because boxing just sold a million give or take ppv buys haha]
All flaming a side I like sports equal but boxing pays way more and Golden Boy is owned by Del a Hoya and Mayweather also has his own production company. No UFC fighter could do that both will be make loads of money from fighting well into retirement.
MMA needs to go the way of boxing for fighters to get paid properly. That is just the truth.
HAHAHHAHA!!!! A million give or take 100k hahaha!! Fucking moron. Last ppv to do a million buys between both boxing/mma- Silva-Weidman II. Sal hates the fact that a sport that has been around for over 100 years has been blown out of the water by one company that has been around for 20. HAHAHAHAHA!! NICE TRY FAG BOY!!!!