HBO reports (via ESPN) that the Canelo Alvarez-Miguel Cotto fight on November 21st in Vegas drew 900,000 PPV buys and about $58 million in domestic PPVs. The 900,000 PPV buys is promising for HBO as no fight not featuring Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao or Oscar De La Hoya have scored 900,000 buys since 2002 when […]
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Klitschko-Fury draws over 1 million on HBO Saturday afternoon
The Heavyweight title fight between Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury on HBO Saturday scored over 1 million subscribers according to Sports TV Ratings. The replay of the Miguel Cotto-Canelo Alvarez fight later that night drew 901,000 HBO subscribers. The live event from Germany between Klitschko and Fury drew 1.038 million viewers between 5:19pm and 6:08pm […]
HBO Boxing’s Bradley-Rios draws 910,000 viewers
HBO Boxing drew an average viewership of 910,000 subscribers according to ESPN. The event featured Timothy Bradley taking on Brandon Rios and peaked at 1.03 million viewers. In addition the opening bout on the show featured Vasyl Lomanchenko taking on Romulo Koasicha. The fight averaged 585,000 and peaked at 657,000. Per Sports TV Ratings, the […]
Hershman steps down as HBO president
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that HBO Sports President Ken Hershman is stepping down from his post. Despite the fact that ratings were up and there seem to be suitable replacements for Manny Pacquiao, Hershman resigned abruptly on Friday. Hershman replaced Ross Greenburg in 2012. There was no announcement of Hershman’s replacement although SI’s […]
Crawford and GGG replay draw 1.07M avg on HBO Saturday
ESPN’s Dan Rafael reports the ratings from Saturday night’s HBO event featuring Terrence Crawford. The replay which drew an average subscriber audience of 1.07M viewers also included the GGG-David Lemieux PPV replay. The overall event on HBO Saturday night from 9:30 to approximately midnight ET (first showing) peaked at 1.2M viewers. The replay of GGG-Lemieux […]