Comments on: NBA Finals Broadcasts To Push Nostagia Storyline

By: edmund dantes

edmund dantes — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:04:07 +0000

Also Thur-Sun breaks are insane. Talk about removing all momentum and killing off any buzz. Horrible decisions that are supposedly designed to boost ratings, but actually they hurt ratings. If the games are compelling, people will watch and get their friends to watch even if it is a Friday or Saturday night. Also people will watch a Sunday Afternoon game. I’m pretty sure the NFL does alright with those games, and since this is a historical NBA Finals matchup they can at least muster ratings similar if not slightly better than a Sunday afternoon game, but of course it’s not “Primetime”. Ugh!!

By: JohnnyApps

JohnnyApps — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:04:10 +0000

I agree with both Andrew and DV. It’s always about the money with MLB and the NBA. It’s completely ridiculous that the NBA is starting ALL of the games at 920pm and NON of the games are on Fri or Sat. A stupid and short sighted broadcast strategy. They should at least start the Sunday games by 5 or 6pm. The way they are doing it now they are completely losing the casual viewer that might have tuned in if it started earlier.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:06:54 +0000

This is what I don’t understand about the how the NBA and MLB schedule their playoffs. Every game is a 9:00 tipoff and not a single game is on a Friday or Saturday nite. This basically ensures that most kids will be fast asleep by the end of the game, most likely having hit the sheets by the half. I know the late starts are done to appease west coast viewers, but it is very short sighted thinking. They are shutting out their next generation of paying fans.

As for me, I’ll be watching from my couch instead of getting together with friends or going out to a bar as I would if any of the games were earlier or on the weekend. The alarm clock goes off at 5:00AM M-F regardless of what time tipoff is. Damn I sound old.

By: DV

DV — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:02:51 +0000

If the NBA is looking for big ratings from this year’s Finals, why are they broadcasting all the games at such a ridiculous time?

While some people will tell me to “suck it up” it really makes no sense to me that there is not even ONE game starting before 9PM EST.