Ad Age reports that Fox Sports 1 advertisers are receiving “make goods” due to “ratings shortfalls” on the new channel. Some advertisers even received time during the World Series on Fox as a result. The World Series ads made available were extra units made open during the game. The regular ad inventory for the World […]
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UFC Fight Night 31 bonuses
MMA Junkie reports the bonuses from Wednesday’s special UFC Fight Night 31. Tim Kennedy led the list of winners with his KO of Rafael Natal in the main event. The bonuses were announced by Dana White at the post-fight press conference. As always, each received $50,000 for their bonus: KO of the Night: Tim Kennedy […]
Bradley-Marquez reaches 375K PPV buys
Kevin Iole of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez fight taking place on PPV on Saturday, October 12th received 375,000 PPV buys. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, the PPV buys generated $21.75M. The estimated PPV buys is a good number considering Top Rank estimated the buy rate to be 350K-450K. According to […]
Jon Jones to be on the cover of EA Sports UFC
MMA Junkie reports that Jon Jones will be on the cover of the UFC’s latest video game, “EA Sports UFC.” A second UFC fighter will be featured and chosen based upon a MetroPCS-sponsored vote on the UFC web site. Chris Weidman, Georges St. Pierre, Jose Aldo and Ronda Rousey are among the 16 fighters in […]
TUF 18 Episode 9: 452,000 viewers
MMA Payout has learned that Episode 9 of TUF 18 received a viewer average of only 452,000 viewers. It is the lowest output for this season. TUF 18 Episodes Episode 1: 762,000 viewers Episode 2: 870,000 viewers Episode 3: 639,000 viewers Episode 4: 778,000 viewers Episode 5: 640,000 viewers Episode 6: 725,000 viewers Episode 7: 672,000 viewers Episode 8: 476,000 viewers Payout Perspective: Last week’s […]