FS1 And USGA Ratings Eyebrow Raiser: Big East Ratings Plunge
/As we're only two months from the debut of most USGA events on Fox Sports 1, the cable channel continues to earn accolades for...delivering shocking ratings plunges.
Awful Announcing notes the Big East Championship's 86% drop in two years since moving from ESPN.
We’ve chronicled the issues the conference has had on Fox Sports 1 since it began on the network in the 2013-14 season to the point where it could influence other leagues from coming on-board.
Last Saturday’s Big East Championship on Fox Sports 1 drew just a 0.3 overnight rating. That’s down 40% from last year’s 0.5 which also had the Pac-12 Championship as a lead-in. And when you compare it to the last Big East Championship on ESPN, it’s a huge 86% drop from the 2.3 in 2013.
**The Pac 12 title game went from ESPN to FS1 to ESPN the last three years. According to Sports Media Watch the ratings go like this: 1.2, .4, 1.1. That's a 175% increase in the return to ESPN.
