The Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko fight on Saturday produced big ratings for both Showtime and HBO.
The live event on Showtime drew 659,000 subscribers and 0.24 in the A18-49 demo per ShowBuzz Daily. The pre-event on Showtime drew 308,000 subscribers. The post-fight on Showtime drew 401,000 viewers.
The replay main event on HBO drew 738,000 subscribers and 0.22 in the A18-49 demo. The Canelo/Chavez shoulder programming which followed the HBO showing of the fight drew 315,000 viewers and 0.11 in the A18-49 demo.
On a separate note, PBC on FS1 drew 300,000 viewers Saturday night. The 101-minute event starting at 10:19pm ET drew 0.08 viewers in the A18-49 demo.
Payout Perspective:
Excellent ratings for both showings and you can see that more people watched the HBO replay. There are more subscribers to HBO and with the afternoon showing on Showtime, some probably could not watch it live. Of course, maybe some like Lampley, Kellerman and Jones more. Still, Showtime produced a great event and embraced the big event feel at Wembley Stadium. The ratings on Showtime do not surpass the Broner-Granados fight earlier this year but again, this was a mid-afternoon fight on the west coast so that may have impacted viewership.
Very well said, good ratings and if it had been in prime time it would have done plenty more. I was working and had to watch it from my showtime app.
Pretty good ratings. IMO the HBO crew is losing to the showtime crew. Too much house fighter bias on HBO. Also, Roy jones kinda sucks compared to Paulie as a commentator.
I dvd’d the Showtime afternoon broadcast and avoided all potential spoilers to watch in the evening, Hands down the FOTY so far, just an awesome big time feel to it, and as I mentioned in another comment, AJ is classy, and a future mega star.
“I was working and had to watch it from my showtime app.”
I’ve done that once or twice.
Great fight (for heavyweights) and if you add up both networks great ratings. Considering that this was a fight between two Europeans contested in the UK, it’s a truly impressive ratings performance.
Could we see Joshua do some PPVs? He’s not as exciting as Mike Tyson, but if he keeps getting those KOs, people will tune in. Of course, he’ll need quality opposition and I only see a handful of opponents, of which two have the profile to warrant a PPV – Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.
“Roy jones kinda sucks compared to Paulie as a commentator.”
I do like Paulie much better for color, but Lampley is my favorite play-by-play of all time. I call it a draw.
In the words of a great military leader, “i love it when a plan comes together.”
I wouldn’t go as far as saying these were bad numbers if you factor in the time delay, but I don’t see how these are excellent. HBO and Showtime have put up far better numbers with much lower profile fights. Golovkin beats these numbers easily with low billing opponents.
Good numbers but HBO for being such a great network (not as much Boxing budget though) They were telling Showtime not to show replays or put it up on social media, as if most people wouldn’t hear, live all the way even if it hurts your ratings its 2017
Showtime peaked at 763,000 and HBO peaked at 890,000
A lot if people joining the joshua bandwagon…..next star of boxing
The numbers are not the news even though they are excellent, the news is that a very rare moment where HBO and Showtime work together to broadcast the same fight !! Only the truly special events get that treatment