The game, televised by Fox, drew a rating of 8.1 and a 14 share

The blowout over the American League on Tuesday night, which had the third-highest victory margin in All-Star history, received a 6.8 rating and 12 share

OK, so I started drinking earlier than usual today and I don't really get a lot of the "business of TV" stuff but this is ###### up, right? Neither article gives a source for their ratings so I suppose they are using different sources but this looks like a pretty wide spread to me.

I need more sangria.

Could be one source used average rating over the course of the game, while the other used the first 30 minutes.

You'd assume that the annual combination of "worst ratings ever" + "most watched of the night" that we've seen for the last 20 years of almost all event programming would have eventually inspired a certain minor leap of insight. Or maybe, just that somebody somewhere would one day tire of writing the same article. This assumption is routinely disproved.

An article I read today admitted ratings were lower than last year, but (a) not nearly as big a drop as in past years, (b) which is impressive given it was more of a blowout. And (c) ratings were actually higher in younger demographics.

An article I read today admitted ratings were lower than last year, but (a) not nearly as big a drop as in past years, (b) which is impressive given it was more of a blowout. And (c) ratings were actually higher in younger demographics.

TOO MUCH NUANCE! PLEASE JUST TELL ME GOOD OR BAD!

Hmm, Tv by the Numbers has the final ratings at a 3.2/10 (the preliminary numbers were 2.9/9) which says is up from the 3.1 rating last years final ratings had pulled (they say the same up 3% as the original article).

And (c) ratings were actually higher in younger demographics.

The Harper-Trout effect?

Hmm, Tv by the Numbers has the final ratings at a 3.2/10 (the preliminary numbers were 2.9/9) which says is up from the 3.1 rating last years final ratings had pulled (they say the same up 3% as the original article).

That 3.2/10 is the rating in the 18-49 year old demographic. They generally use that one in their charts because that is the demographic that advertisers mostly care about.

As to the first post, the difference is that the 8.1/14 was the overnight rating and the 6.8/12 was the updated rating with the whole country included. Sports programming does seem particularly likely to end up with a final rating that varies pretty widely from the overnight rating.

"2012 All Star Game highest lowest rated game in history"

you know, I plonked Sugar Bear long ago and his obsession with TV ratings, but WHY do you give a flying fuck about the ratings???

The onliest peeps that should care are the networks and the advertisers

you know, I plonked Sugar Bear long ago and his obsession with TV ratings, but WHY do you give a flying #### about the ratings???

Because if ratings slump, baseball will feel the need to do stupid #### like decide the ASG should decide HFA for the World Series.

Because if ratings slump, baseball will feel the need to do stupid #### like decide the ASG should decide HFA for the World Series.

that had nothing to do with ratings--that had to do with an absurd overreaction to a tie game, and the phony outrage that followed--the 2002 ASG had "normal" ratings and they dint go up after "this time it means sumpin" was instituted

let me elaborate--people like SBB gloat over low ratings so they can say "see, see, see--America agrees with me that baseball is played horseshit these days, not like I like it"

to that I say Bull and Shit both capitalized with sugar on top--baseball TV revenue is soaring, like it or not, whether you approve of the announcers or not*

enjoy the game and #### the ratings

*and turn the sound down

I appreciated that the All star game was on mlb.tv this year, even though the internet is so shitty in Myanmar I only got it to work for one pitch.

It was thrown by Clayton Kershaw.

Baseball's the second richest league in the world, and the gap between it and the NFL is a lot smaller than you'd imagine from just reading about it in the media (9b to 7b as of 2011, IIRC). The only way it looks at all poor is if you look at individual game ratings. In terms of attendance at the games, aggregate television revenue, and overall attention, MLB's doing gangbusters. 45 million tickets are sold to MLB games, another 75 million tickets are sold to MiLB. That's why Bud Selig's considered a hell of a commish, regardless of the calumnies he's charged with committing on this site.

#14 is right. In terms of sheer online presence, the NFL has been playing catch-up to MLB for quite some time.