Menu
Media

Colts' Local TV Ratings Down With Team's Poor Play, Absence Of QB Andrew Luck

TV ratings for Colts games in the central Indiana market are "down a whopping" 28% the first six weeks of this year "compared to the same period last year," according Anthony Schoettle of the INDIANAPOLIS BUSINESS JOURNAL. Last year at this time, the Colts were "bucking the trend in terms of television ratings." Six weeks into '16, the team's TV ratings were up 2% over the previous year "even though the overall NFL ratings were down" nearly 10%. Local media buyers were "clamoring for spots during Colts telecasts." Flash forward to this season and most of the ratings decline "likely has to do" with the fact that Colts QB Andrew Luck has been out all season with an injury, and the team has "looked pretty bad on its way to a 2-5 start." Last year, the Colts were 3-4 through seven games. If Luck "doesn’t come back this year," ratings in the second half of the season "could get really ugly." The Colts "can’t blame the schedule for their plummeting TV ratings." They have had "one Sunday night and one Monday night game," and their opener had a 4:05pm ET kickoff. However, the Colts "likely were hurt" in Week 4 when their game aired on WTHR-NBC. WTHR at that time was "still in a squabble with DirecTV and AT&T over re-transmission fees, so subscribers to those services wouldn’t have been able to see the game without a pair of rabbit ears" (IBJ.com, 10/25).

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2017/10/26/Media/Colts-Ratings.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2017/10/26/Media/Colts-Ratings.aspx

CLOSE