Spike TV has announced its plans for a new hour-long television series to debut this winter entitled “Best of Pride Fighting Championships.” Check out part of the release and brief commentary below: New York, NY, August 10, 2009 – One of the most popular MMA organizations in the world during its ten years of operation (1997-2007), […]
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MMA’s Cost Effectiveness May Lure Network TV
Meg James of the LA Times has written a piece detailing the tremendous decline in television adveritsing sales volume over the last two years; a decline that would seemingly mirror that of the American economy. The decline in sales volume has put significant pressure on the bottom-lines of America’s big television networks (FOX, ABC, NBC, […]
Countdown to UFC 101 Rating
Countdown to UFC 101, which aired last night on Spike TV, drew in a sizeable 805,000 viewers. The historical average is somewhere in and around the 600,000 mark. It’s been quite difficult as of late to make any sort of correlation between Countdown ratings and PPV buyrates. The following illustrates the inconsistencies between Countdown and […]
Fedor-Strikeforce Analysis
By Kelsey Philpott Fedor signing with Strikeforce is a complex issue not because of the deal itself, but because of the underlying implications it may or may not have for the MMA community as a whole. Thus, we’ll take a look at the signing from the viewpoint of the many different stakeholders in this situation. […]
Dana White on Potential TV Deal
On Friday, Dana White answered numerous questions in regards to the possibilities surrounding a network TV deal. Here is a summary of the discussion: Re: ESPN US “[Pause] Nope [No comment]. I mean, obviously, we’re always talking to networks, and I’m confident – I’m very confident. I’ve always said that we’ll be on network television, […]