New York has comfortably claimed the crown of Major Market Least Interested in the Daytona 500, comfortably beating out last year's winner, San Francisco.
Among the 56 markets measured in overnight ratings, New York ranked dead last with 3.0 percent of households tuning in on Fox Sunday. The rest of the bottom five: San Antonio (3.9), Los Angeles (4.3), San Francisco (4.3) and San Diego (4.5).
(New York was down from a 4.1 last year.)
The top five: Greenville (24.1), Greensboro (22.5), Charlotte (21.1), Orlando (19.7), Knoxville (19.6).
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Simple reason....
LIE, Cross Bronx, Major Deegan, West Side Highway, etc etc.
If you spend 20+ hours a week watching that on your car window portal, why would you want to watch it repeated on Sundays?
Stand on any overpass during non rush hour and you can see the same thing as well-for free.
neil,how did the nba all-star game do in the ratings?
Los Angeles is third from the bottom? Must be why they moved the Labor Day Firecracker 500 from Darlington, SC to Los Angeles.It was the biggest NASCAR race until about 1970
As Ashley Judd, wife of Dario Franchitti who frives the #40 Dodge.com Dodge, said "From watching NASCAR on television, it looks really stupid".
Its too bad it doesnt do well on TV in NY area...
btw, how many people does that rating equal??
The area NASCAR race tracks in Loudon NH, Pocono, and Dover Del. do very well attendance wise, so there must be some interest in NY.
Maybe the Yankees need to buy a team like the Red Sox did to grow the sport in the NYC area...
Jason: A 3.0 is about 222,000 households in NY. Not sure of the total people yet.
As long as this is a thread about sports in my local (Orlando/Daytona/Melbourne, Fla.) area:
Our local CBS affiliate WKMG is threatening to pull itself off of Bright House Networks cable in 30 days UNLESS Bright House agrees to pay them for the signal. They claim Bright House pays networks like ESPN and USA fees to carry their networks yet takes the over-the-air stations for free. Meanwhile satellite services pay the over-the-air stations for the right to carry their signal. They also state this won't result in the cable companies raising prices (if they pay for standard stations) because they are raising them anyway. If WKMG wins, this will start happening all across the country (over the air stations demanding payment), if they lose maybe Bright House replaces that CBS affiliate with some other CBS affiliate. Could be something to watch.