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Nielson: ACC most watched basketball conference. Third most for football.

Nielson released a report on viewership trends across the sports spectrum. It covers all of the professional sports first, but it gets to college sports on pages 26-29. There is good stuff in here regarding trends.

For football, they have the Big Ten and SEC at the top, the ACC third, and Notre Dame fifth right behind the Big XII. I wonder if ND joined the ACC it would boost both theirs and the ACC's because ABC gets better ratings for college football than NBC does usually. It also highlights that the northeast is not a region that cares as much about college football.

For basketball, it has the ACC first followed by the SEC. I think these SEC numbers might be skewed because they are for the year when Kentucky was dominant. I had to laugh because they make a big deal about basketball viewers being more educated.

Anyway it's good stuff.

Link: Nielson

Posted: 04/13/2016 at 10:52AM

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Nielson: ACC most watched basketball conference. Third most for football. -- HOO86 04/13/2016 10:52AM

This is what Swofford and company are touting -- ren_hoek 04/14/2016 06:50AM

This also correlates reasonably well with ACC/Big 12 attendance figures -- daveinop 04/13/2016 5:40PM

ACC has 40% more teams ** -- FlyFishingHokie 04/14/2016 3:13PM

That is an issue for the conference, not the network -- daveinop 04/16/2016 3:29PM

I don't get this. The pay off for these ratings/tickets is split 15 ways. -- chuckd4vt 04/17/2016 02:55AM

Again, we often talk past each other, mixing topics -- daveinop 04/17/2016 08:42AM

So good for ESPN and Raycom, but not so good for the ACC and VT. -- chuckd4vt 04/17/2016 2:39PM

Pretty sure you stay "started" : ) and -- daveinop 04/17/2016 5:04PM

Michigan and Ohio save the Big 10... -- Old Line Hokie 04/13/2016 11:40AM

I am sorry but this makes no sense -- BigCrumpy 04/14/2016 11:47AM

Just watch this MASSIVE contract they're about to sign. ** -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 8:37PM

Lol ** -- goldendomer 04/14/2016 12:53PM

Games in the Richmond to Atlanta corridor will really help Notre Dame -- HOO86 04/13/2016 1:00PM

17.5-28.2% of college football fans in the Northeast.. -- Old Line Hokie 04/13/2016 2:24PM

Difference between peeking in on a game and must see TV. -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 04:38AM

I've caught a few games both VT and non-VT in NYC and you're wrong -- HokieDevil 04/14/2016 09:39AM

The NYC metro area is only about 3 or 4 times larger than Atlanta. -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 1:05PM

Perhaps. There's levels of fandom. college fball just isn't huge in NYC. -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 12:58PM

As far as the whole city getting into something no NYC ins't into college -- HokieDevil 04/14/2016 1:28PM

College Basketball is popular in NY. And the ACC has it. -- HOO86 04/14/2016 3:00PM

Facts tell us NY schools do not have many fans who attend games/bowls. ** -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 2:49PM

You assume that only NY schools have fans in NYC. -- HokieDevil 04/14/2016 3:38PM

I get that. Same happens in Atlanta. I frequented the PSU bar down there. -- chuckd4vt 04/14/2016 6:08PM

Those factors that have ZERO to do with media contract -- daveinop 04/16/2016 5:25PM

Virginia Tech's 10+ years in the Big East is magic -- BigCrumpy 04/14/2016 11:48AM

And yet, we aren't worthy of our own network channel -- EDGEMAN 04/13/2016 11:02AM

This only looks at the top 10 games which has little to do -- Colonel Jessup 04/14/2016 08:07AM

This is a compelling case for a network IMO. -- HOO86 04/13/2016 11:38AM

Raycom is not all it's cracked up to be, my story -- FlyFishingHokie 04/14/2016 11:07AM

True. They pay for them, but they don't have to show them. -- HOO86 04/14/2016 12:36PM

Nielson: ACC most watched basketball conference. Third most for football.

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