Rockets suffer 40% drop in local television ratings...

Thanks, he stills gots it

 

Good question. Here is what I found.

+140% on tv ratings

+770% on web traffic at Knicks website. Jason Friedman is looking at his shrinking bonus checks for the Rockets website and wishing Lin was here. *smile*

+4,000% on internet sales at Knicks online store

 

How bout Cornbread Bill Worrell?!?!?!? I rather have Clyde's enthusiasm than Bullard who makes up things that doesn't have a lot of thinking into it. JVG>Murphy>Clyde>Bullard

 

Calvin Murphy is hinting that the broadcasts are boring, since he would entertain the audience even when they were losing, and did he say he takes whatever Bill says with a grain of salt ??

Obviously Bullard is trying with his cookies and Drexler tries to do something or he's just off but I like the potential comeback because anything is better than what we have right now. He says they ask him everyday if he wants to come back and broadcast.

I fear however Leslie likes Clyde too much and still does not like Calvin so...
maybe Leslie is the only one who likes the idiotic things Drexler says. That clubbing baby seals and all that would not fly with other networks and team, I am sure.

 

Respect to Clyde's supernatural chill, but bring back Calvin.

 

Imagine if these Rockets were in New York. The New York fans would love them! Doing better than the Knicks. . . .

 

How was I defending the 'stros? They're awful, pgabriel. I love them...they're my team...but they're awful. All I did was cite to attendance numbers.

I defend the fans of Houston only to the extent defending them means tearing down the illusion that fans in other cities support all their franchises come hell or high water...but for a very few notable exceptions, that simply does not happen.

 

Rockets fans as a whole suck. We have a good core group of devout fans, but the general Houston public bandwagons hard. We are in the thick of the playoff mix, and still cant get support.

 

Horse**** !

Rocket fans like Jeff and Clutch helped save the team from leaving Houston.

They don't suck, they are just too smart to fall for a below par product.

Fans can see what is going on here, and they are saying "We don't like it" by their absence at games, and watching on TV.

This team may have a winning record, but it is boring as hell and no one with a brain believes they can do anything in the playoffs.

As the great Roy Hobbs would say, to Daryl.

"Go pick me out a winner Morey"

DD

 

Well said.

 

I agree with all of this, except the last line:

"Go rig the draft for me Stern"

He wants to screw us for basketball reasons, he will reinstate us for basketball reasons. Or lose us for basketball reasons.

 

^ thanks Clutch. That makes total sense now.

 

Chinese are 40% of the local viewing market in Houston?

 

So will Comcast SportsNet Houston be carried on U-Verse?

 

That's pretty sad, when 40% of the ratings is dependent on the Chinese, who make up only 1.3% of the population. The tv ratings among the other 98.7% must be like 1%.

 

Fox sabotaging Rockets and their new network?

 

This completely explains the sudden decision for FoxSports in College Station to switch to the Mavs game every opportunity they have this year. Luckily enough complaining got them to air the Rockets on the leased access channel, but I still couldn't figure out why they made the switch.

 

If I'm understanding correctly... seems to me that Fox Sports is concerned about potentially losing advertising revenues to the new network. Therefor, they proclaim this huge dropoff as a downward spiral and sign of future dismal results at th new network... Sounds like a lawsuit to me...