WSOF 11 NBC Debut Averages 906k Viewers

Jason Floyd @Jason_Floyd · 2h

WSOF PR ---> RT @DannyBrener: Saturday’s WSOF action on NBC averaged 906,000 viewers – a record for a WSOF telecast.

only because it was july 4th weekend...... any other nights will be less

Either way 906k for a company that has only 10 events are good numbers!

They will go back to NBC in december

On Saturday afternoon in Florida, we had the World Series of Fighting debut on NBC broadcast television. As John Nash discovered before the UFC helped pass a secrecy law in Florida, the TV deal between WSOF and NBC is a barter deal.

WSOF got access but NBC isn’t paying anything out of pocket. It’s a good news/bad news scenario. At least MMA is able to get on network television, but there’s no ad campaign whatsoever to promote anything. Just filler programming in the mindset of TV suits.

http://www.fightopinion.com/2014/07/03/wsof-ufc-july-fourth-weekend-three-cards/

Not bad

TeamJohnPerretti wrote:On Saturday afternoon in Florida, we had the World Series of Fighting debut on NBC broadcast television. As John Nash discovered before the UFC helped pass a secrecy law in Florida, the TV deal between WSOF and NBC is a barter deal.

WSOF got access but NBC isn’t paying anything out of pocket. It’s a good news/bad news scenario. At least MMA is able to get on network television, but there’s no ad campaign whatsoever to promote anything. Just filler programming in the mindset of TV suits.

http://www.fightopinion.com/2014/07/03/wsof-ufc-july-fourth-weekend-three-cards/

The only barter deal was the first wsof show, which they paid for air time, after that they got all the sponsors of the event and in the new deal there is a exchange fee from NBC. Either way, here is a perspective in the ratings which is the real purpose of the thread! Mma fighting.com


The number was slightly ahead of the 936,000 viewers for the prelims of UFC 170 on Feb. 22, which was the Ronda Rousey vs. Sara McMann show. The prelims are averaging 863,000 viewers so far this year and summer is traditionally the hardest time of the year to draw a big television rating.

The Ultimate Fighter finals on Sunday night, featuring what was very likely the final fight of B.J. Penn's MMA career, also did 1 million viewers. The number is well above the finals of the last U.S. season of the show, which did 755,000 viewers, but it should have been with such a strong main event. Had the Penn vs. Frankie Edgar fight taken place when it wasn't the day after the biggest UFC event of the year, it probably would have done even better.

World Series of Fighting on Saturday afternoon on NBC drew 906,000 viewers for a 4 p.m. Eastern time show that was headlined by Justin Gaethje's lightweight title defense against Nick Newell, and featured familiar UFC fighters like Jon Fitch and Melvin Guillard. The number was more than four times the usual average that watches the promotion, based on moving from NBC Sports in prime time to NBC in the afternoon. Most WSOF shows do in the range of 200,000 viewers, with the June 21 show setting a record with 365,000 viewers.

Impressive for 4 PM time slot

Solid numbers for wsof