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Each Bellator 149 fight drew at least 1.9M viewers

February 25, 2016 by Jason Cruz 19 Comments

Every Bellator fight at Bellator 149 drew over 1 million average viewers according to Spike TV.  The Kimbo Slice-Dada 5,000 drew the highest rating with 2.9 million viewers. The breakdown is as follows: Emmanuel Sanchez-Daniel Pineda: 1.9 million viewers Linton Vassell-Emmanuel Newton: 1.9 million Derek Campos-Melvin Guillard: 2.4 million Kimbo Slice-Dada 5K: 2.9 million Royce […]

Filed Under: Bellator, Bellator MMA, DVR+3, ratings, Spike, TV

Kimbo-Dada fight ratings up to 2.9M viewers

February 25, 2016 by Jason Cruz 16 Comments

The DVR numbers for Bellator 149 this past Friday reflect higher ratings for the Kimbo Slice-Dada 5000 fight as the fight between the two drew 2.9 million viewers.  The Royce Gracie-Ken Shamrock fight drew 2.7 million viewers. Overall, Bellator 149 drew 2.2 million viewers for the 3 hour fight card.  Kimbo-Dada drew 2.9 million from […]

Filed Under: Bellator, Bellator MMA, DVR+3, ratings, Spike, TV

TUF 22: Episode 4 DVR numbers second best this season

October 8, 2015 by Jason Cruz 1 Comment

MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that Episode 4 of The Ultimate Fighter last week drew 845,000 viewers in adjusted viewership including DVR+3 data.  It’s the second best increase from Live+SD rating this season. The DVR numbers were a great increase from TUF 21 this past spring as it more than doubled last […]

Filed Under: DVR+3, ratings, TUF, TUF 22, UFC

TUF 22 Episode 4: 538,000 viewers

October 2, 2015 by Jason Cruz 2 Comments

The fourth episode of The Ultimate Fighter drew an average viewership of 538,000.  The average is up from the past two editions of TUF. Last spring’s TUF 21 drew just 286,000 viewers and was slightly up from TUF 20 last fall of 515,000 per a Nielsen source. In the fight of the show, Team McGregor […]

Filed Under: DVR+3, FS1, ratings, TUF, TUF 22, TV

Bellator Dynamite quarter hour breakdown and DVR +3 ratings

September 25, 2015 by Jason Cruz

MMA Payout has learned from a Nielsen source that the quarter hour ratings for this past Saturday’s Bellator MMA: Dynamite 1 on Spike TV.  It also has learned that the DVR +3 rating has bumped up the initial overnight rating of 800,000 up to 867,000. The show peaked at 9:14pm ET which means that people […]

Filed Under: Bellator, Bellator MMA, DVR+3, Promoters, ratings, Spike, TV

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